The myWorksites team and I have been a bit quiet lately.
Not because we’ve had nothing to say, but because we’ve been heads-down making something happen that we’ve been working toward since day one.
On 1 September 2025, NZTA Waka Kotahi’s RCA Temporary Traffic Management Centre came onto myWorksites. They’re centralising approval and coordination of state highway Traffic Management Plans across the entire state highway network, ensuring their risk-based approach is applied consistently, with appropriate risk assessments and controls embedded in every TMP.
For us, this isn’t just another wee win. This is validation of a vision we’ve been pursuing for nearly a decade.
Back in 2011, myWorksites started as a napkin sketch, quite literally. With its origin story in the chaos of post-quake Christchurch, the problem was obvious to anyone working in the sector. Roadwork coordination in New Zealand was fragmented, manual, and primed for mistakes. Spreadsheets. Emails. Phone calls. Multiple systems that didn’t talk to each other. No single source of truth for what was actually happening on our roads. And, critically, no way to rapidly scale in the event of an emergency.
The consequences weren’t just inefficient. There was plenty of value left on the table, risks that weren’t being optimally managed, and limited visibility for everyone who needed it most.
I was lucky enough to be invited into this world at a turning-point moment and found a sector of smart, motivated people excited by the potential of technology to drive innovation and change. Quickly, this turned into the vision of a platform that could manage the total lifecycle of planned events. Something which enabled Road Controlling Authorities, contractors, utilities, and the public to all see what was happening, in real-time, in one place.
Over the next few years we partnered with various Road Controlling Authorities to co-design and develop the fundamental building blocks of this tool with a nationwide vision in mind.
Today, myWorksites is the platform behind a significant share of New Zealand’s roadwork coordination. We support thousands of users across hundreds of organisations, and demand keeps growing.
But NZTA coming onboard represents something much bigger.
When NZTA announced their decision in June to require all RCAs to progressively apply the New Zealand Guide to Temporary Traffic Management to NLTF-funded activities, it signalled a sector-wide shift. The Government Policy Statement on land transport 2024 made it clear: reduce TTM expenditure while maintaining safety for road workers and road users.
NZTA’s response? Bring the RCA function in-house. Centralise it. Make it a centre of excellence. Apply the risk-based approach consistently across the entire state highway network.
And they chose myWorksites as part of the picture for making that happen.
From the very beginning, our vision for myWorksites has been about five things: driving best practice and behaviour change, fostering collaboration across organisational boundaries, bringing visibility of planned events to everyone who needs it, digitising manual processes that don’t scale, and providing trusted data for the complete lifecycle of a planned event.
NZTA’s move validates all of that at once. They’re not just adopting a tool. They’re committing to a way of working that aligns with everything we’ve been building toward since day one.
Better than that, some of our earliest collaborators are back as SMEs in the new centre of excellence. Continuing this journey with their input and expertise is satisfying on a very human level.
At its core, myWorksites delivers something we call “real-time control.”
We had a real ‘eureka’ moment recently, during a conversation with a highly experienced corridor manager. He was walking us through how they use the platform when he suddenly paused mid-sentence. “Wait. That’s not right.”
He’d spotted a discrepancy in an activity, missing details that needed fixing. Within moments, he’d flagged it to his colleague, who could rectify it immediately. From a centralised position. Seamlessly.
That’s what real-time control looks like in practice. It’s not about micromanaging every detail. It’s about having the visibility to spot issues before they become problems, and the tools to act on them immediately.
For NZTA, that means complete network visibility across the state highway network, risk-based planning that’s consistently applied and easily tracked, earlier engagement that surfaces potential issues before they’re locked in, and coordinated deployments that prevent clashes and reduce disruption. Better data for everyone.
NZTA’s team has been using myWorksites daily for the past six months to manage TMP submissions across the state highway network (excluding areas managed by local alliances and PPPs like Auckland System Management, Pūhoi to Warkworth, and Wellington Transport Alliance). The early signs are encouraging.
We’re now building new functionality specifically designed to support NZTA’s vision and operational needs. That includes enhanced tools for tracking risk-based planning, streamlining the Early Access Request process, and improving coordination of live deployments.
But this isn’t the finish line. It’s a waypoint.
Our vision has always been bigger than any single client or region. We want myWorksites to be the platform that brings visibility, collaboration, and best practice to road corridor management across New Zealand and beyond.
Every Road Controlling Authority that comes onboard gets us closer to that vision. Every contractor that uses the platform contributes to a shared picture of what’s happening on our roads. Every improvement we make benefits the entire ecosystem.
I believe New Zealand’s roading sector can be a world leader in roadwork coordination, safety, and efficiency. Not because we have the biggest budgets or the most roads, but because we have the opportunity to get it right and an inbuilt desire to innovate. We’re willing to work together to build systems that actually work, to collaborate across organisational boundaries, and to use technology to make everyone’s job easier and safer.
And we’re ready to support that transformation. Not just for NZTA, but for every RCA, contractor, utility, and stakeholder who shares that vision.
This is just the beginning.
George Wills is Founder and Director of myWorksites, New Zealand’s roadwork coordination platform. Connect with George on LinkedIn