17 June 2004

LTSA expects smooth transition to new transport arrangements

The Land Transport Safety Authority will be working closely with the transport sector review implementation team to ensure a smooth and successful transition to the new transport arrangements.

“There is significant potential in the review decisions for a much stronger, responsive and collaborative approach to our land transport system and the goals of the New Zealand Transport Strategy,” Director of Land Transport Safety David Wright said today.

“There will continue to be a strong focus on the importance of road and rail safety in reducing trauma.

“The LTSA will ensure it is business as usual for the hundreds and thousands of New Zealanders we deal with on a day-to-day basis as the changes are being worked through and implemented,” Mr Wright said.

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Gordon Campbell: On the Sony cyber attack

Given the layers of meta-irony involved, the saga of the Sony cyber attack seemed at the outset more like a snarky European art film than a popcorn entry at the multiplex.

Yet now with (a) President Barack Obama weighing in on the side of artistic freedom and calling for the US to make a ‘proportionate response’quickly followed by (b) North Korea’s entire Internet service going down, and with both these events being followed by (c) Sony deciding to backtrack and release The Interview film that had made it a target for the dastardly North Koreans in the first place, then ay caramba…the whole world will now be watching how this affair pans out. More>>