Land Transport Authority

Thirty-year-old Galumalemana has been with LTA since 2012.

In three years, Galumalemana was promoted to the post of Divisional Manager in 2015 and in 2018, she was appointed by Cabinet to lead the Authority.

Galumalemana graduated from University of Queensland with a Bachelor of Engineering.

The Land Transport Authority oversees the provision of Samoa’s national road network.

Its core services include management of road projects, and ensuring compliancy to acceptable standards and best engineering practices.

Fialua Samuelu questioned the need to bring in parking meters where drivers will have to pay to park in the metered zones.

“I feel like everything else will no longer be free in this country,” he said.

A taxi driver of DB Taxis, Jerry Atatia wanted to know why they will have to pay more to the Land Transport Authority which is installing the parking meters.

“I don’t see any difference in the money we already paid the LTA for passing our car licenses and these coins we’ll be putting inside those small machines,” Atatia said.