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Kaiwharawhara station closure

Rutger Keijser made this Official Information request to Wellington Regional Council

The request was successful.

From: Rutger Keijser

Dear Wellington Regional Council,

Today the Dominion Post website posted an article under the header 'Kaiwharawhara train station overbridge stairs relocated'.
Last year, the Greater Wellington Regional Council decided to close the station and demolish the 'heavily corroded overbridge'. According to another article in the Dominion Post structural enineers said the overbridge is beyond repair.
According to the Dominion Post, Regional Council spokeswoman Philippa Lagan has now stated the stairways remain structurally sound and would be relocated.

Could I please receive a copy of the report provided by structural engineers in 2013 stating that dangerous levels of corrosion had been found and that the bridge was beyond repair?
Could I also please receive a copy of the information used by Philippa Lagan in March 2014 to conclude the overbridge was structurally sound?

If you have any queries related to my requests, please contact me via email.

Yours faithfully,

Rutger Keijser

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Wellington Regional Council

Dear Rutger,

 

Acknowledgement of Request for Information under the Local Government
Official Information and Meetings Act 1987

 

Thank you for your email dated 31 March, 2014 requesting the following
information on the Kaiwharawhara train station closure:

 

·         Could I please receive a copy of the report provided by
structural engineers in 2013 stating that dangerous levels of corrosion
had been found and that the bridge was beyond repair?

·         Could I also please receive a copy of the information used by
Philippa Lagan in March 2014 to conclude the overbridge was structurally
sound?

 

Your request is being followed-up and a reply will be sent to you shortly.

 

Yours sincerely,

 

Darrell Young

 

 

for

Leigh-Anne Buxton

General Manager

People and Capability

 

 

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From: Jared Humm
Wellington Regional Council

Attachment OIA 2014 049 response.pdf
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Attachment Engineering Report.pdf
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Dear Mr Keijser
 
Please find attached a response to your recent information request:
 
Kind regards
 
Jared Humm | Policy Adviser, Public Transport
GREATER WELLINGTON REGIONAL COUNCIL
Te Pane Matua Taiao
142 Wakefield St | PO Box 11646, Manners St, Wellington 6142
T: 04 830-4310 | [1]www.gw.govt.nz
 
 
 

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in reliance on it and you should delete it from your system and notify the
sender immediately. Unless otherwise stated, any views or opinions
expressed are solely those of the author, and do not represent those of
the organisation.

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Luke C left an annotation ()

Hi

The engineering report doesn't seem to be available from the FYI Server. Does anyone have a copy?

Thanks
Luke

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Oliver Lineham (FYI.org.nz volunteer) left an annotation ()

Luke, I have managed to download the engineering report ok (in Chrome on Windows). Can you try again? Make sure choose to download the PDF, not view as HTML (which is a bit hit and miss). If you still can't download it please email me on requests@fyi.org.nz and I'll try to help.
Oliver

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Luke C left an annotation ()

HI Oliver

Confirming I have now been able to download the PDF report. Thanks for your help.
Luke

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