The predecessor to TCCS was the Territory and Municipal Services Directorate (TAMS), previously the Department of Territory and Municipal Services (also TAMS). TAMS was formed on 1 July 2006 from the merger of the Department of Urban Services, Environment ACT, Australian Capital Tourism, Sport and Recreation ACT,
ACTION, Canberra Stadiums and parts of the Office of Sustainability into a single department. In October 2015, the ACT government announced that they were planning to form a standalone public transport directorate known as Transport Canberra, merged from
ACTION buses and Capital Metro Agency (CMA), the agency in charge of planning the
Canberra light rail project. The plan was modified and announced in April 2016 and the new changes took effect on 1 July 2016: • the Territory and Municipal Services Directorate (TAMS) was renamed the Transport Canberra and City Services Directorate (TCCS) • the Parks and Conservation function was transferred from the old TAMS to the
Environment, Planning and Sustainable Development Directorate (EPSDD) • the Active Travel Office was transferred from EPSDD to new TCCS • the Capital Metro Agency (CMA) ceased as a separate reporting entity and its functions were amalgamated with the TCCS The administrative changes brought together the CMA,
ACTION buses and the existing municipal services functions of TAMS into one directorate. Transport Canberra was still created to manage public transport in Canberra, but as a division under the new TCCS directorate. In December 2016, TCCS was given the responsibility of waste policy, transferred from the EPSDD. ==Structure==