The collaborative alliance for transportation and road services in Northland is appointing a former Kamo resident Peter Thomson as its inaugural manager.
Thomson will be joining the Northland transportation alliance early in the New Year.
The alliance was established in July this year, with the aim of sharing resources to deliver better, more cost-effective transportation options to the people of Northland.
More than 50 staff of the Councils (the Far North district council, Kaipara district council, Whangarei district council and the Northland regional council) and the NZTA’s regional personnel are now working together to coordinate transport planning and operations.
Thomson was one of 20 local and international applicants for the role, and he was for 18 years the Tasman district council engineering services manager.
“I’m very pleased to be taking the opportunity to lead the alliance, particularly given that it’s a new business unit within Northland,” says Thomson.
“I am a Kamo High School old boy, so I’m looking forward to returning to Northland and the community,” he says.
Interim alliance leadership group chairperson and acting Far North District Council chief executive Colin Dale say the alliance is the first organisation of its kind in New Zealand, and there are expected to be efficiencies of $18 million of regional roading funds over the next ten years.
“It is our intention to reinvest this money back into Northland’s roading network,” says Dale.
Dale says Thomson’s skills, especially in customer service delivery and stakeholder engagement, will make the transportation alliance an even more efficient organisation.
“Peter also has considerable management and engineering experience, and I’m confident this will prove invaluable in his role,” says Dale.
