Transit New Zealand

Transit New Zealand

Agency overview
Formed	1 October 1989
Preceding agencies	National Roads Board Main Highways Board
Dissolved	31 July 2008
Superseding agency	NZ Transport Agency
Jurisdiction	New Zealand government
Headquarters	Formerly: Level 2 Victoria Arcade 42-44 Victoria Street Wellington New Zealand
Employees	450 (2008)
Annual budget	Over $1 billion NZD (2008)
Ministers responsible	Annette King, Minister of Transport Judith Tizard, Associate Minister of Transport
Agency executives	Bryan Jackson, JP, Acting Chairperson Rick van Barneveld, Chief Executive
Parent agency	Ministry of Transport
Website	www.transit.govt.nz

Transit New Zealand (Māori: Ararau Aotearoa), which existed from 1989 to 2008, was the New Zealand Crown entity responsible for operating and planning the New Zealand state highway network (10,894 km, about 12% of New Zealand's roads). It also concerned itself with developments close to state highways, as it considered the potential additional traffic that these would create, and it was responsible for state highway landscaping.

Transit New Zealand was merged with Land Transport New Zealand to form the NZ Transport Agency (NZTA) on 1 August 2008. Transit's website was still active up to 9 December 2009, when the new NZTA website was launched with streamlined information from the Transit website.^[1]