Expenditure of state funds was without proper supervision or a thorough investigation into actual needs.

The absence of a systematic policy, as well as a lack of funds, had resulted in Victorian roads being in a deplorable condition.

Another prominent chairman was Donald Victor Darwin who took over in 1949, and steered the board through a massive post-war expansion program.

The CRB was abolished and succeeded by the Road Construction Authority on 1 July 1983 by operation of the Transport Act 1983.

[5] This step occurred as part of a suite of major institutional changes in the Victorian transport portfolio affecting roads, trains and trams and related matters.