ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the organizational changes to the roads agencies. It examines the changes to the public transport organizations. Modern management theory stipulates that effective control of stable technological systems such as road or public transport systems requires a 'mechanistic' structure, with as much as possible of the management task brought under central control. The Country Roads Board (CRB) was created in 1913 to improve and maintain main roads throughout the state. Within Melbourne, the principal responsibility for roads was divided between local councils and the Melbourne Metropolitan Board of Works (MMBW), a metropolitan authority based on the concept of the London Board of Works which later became the London County Council. As in Melbourne, so also in Sydney the organization at the heart of roads planning is a State Government agency: the Department of Main Roads of New South Wales and its successor the Roads and Traffic Authority.
