Writing Letters to the Editor
Basic four sentence structure:
1 State the argument that you're responding to
Is it a particular article?
What prompted you to write this?
2 State your position
3 Provide Evidence
4 Provide a Solution - say what should be done
Opportunities for Regional Co-operation
New requirements under recent changes to the Land Transport Management Act is for road controlling authorities and Regional Councils to bid for money from the National Land Transport Programme (NLTP) as a region by submitting a Regional Land Transport Programme (RLTP) to the NZ Transport Agency. Previously each local Council put in a separate local bid. This is obviously not such a shift for Unitary Authorities (Territorial Authorities that combine local and regional councils into one body) who were already acting regionally. Regions now more than ever need to decide what is important regionally in terms of prioritisation of regional transport projects.
Working regionally clearly has become even more important in the transport sector. Sometimes the number of local authorities in each region such as in Canterbury (9 Councils plus the Regional Council requires 10 Councils) can make this challenging.