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In addition, the decision to use roundabouts instead of traffic signals for several projects along Dartford Drive and in Gungahlin was taken on the basis that roundabouts will provide lower overall delays for traffic at these specific locations.
(2) (a) Transport Regulation has not been involved in any formal review of random vehicle inspection. However, information gained through Transport Regulations involvement in joint on-road operations with the Australian Federal Police indicates that random inspection is a very effective method of maintaining a worthwhile vehicle safety audit function, provided that it is combined with effective onroad enforcement activity.
Primary responsibility for vehicle safety rests with the vehicle owner or operator, not with a Government agency.
(b) ACT Building Control monitors its overall financial delivery on the basis of two major cost divisions Salaries and Other Operating Costs.
The Section has taken emphatic steps to minimize the cost of operations and this is manifested in the expected financial results for 1991/92. The number of persons employed within the Section has declined, through a policy of non-replacement of staff who have voluntarily left the Section, from 90 persons at 1 July 1991 to a current level of 80 persons in June 1992.
In addition, "Other Operating Costs" have diminished by approximately 30$ when comparing 1991/92 with the preceding financial year. The Section is continuing to examine opportunities for additional reductions in the costs of operation while attempting to maintain accepted service standards.
(3) (a) There are currently 135 employees with Waste Management.
(b) 78 employees are directly involved with the collection of waste. An additional 8 staff are responsible for the management and operation of the two Landfill sites and are involved in the disposal of collected waste.
The remaining employees in the Waste Management Section are involved in specialist cleaning (eg shopping centres and public toilets, graffiti removal), maintenance of fountains and memorials, dangerous goods inspectorate, operation of public weighbridges, recycling, and negotiation and supervision of domestic garbage contracts and the use of public space (eg outdoor cafes, Trash In Treasure).
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