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18 October 2021 
 
 
 
 
 
Jonathan Brewer 
 
 
[FYI request #16812 email] 
 
REF: OIA-8821 
  
Dear Jonathan 
 
Request made under the Official Information Act 1982 
 
Thank you for your email of 20 September 2021 requesting the following information under the Official 
Information Act 1982 (the Act): 
 
Please release any information about telecommunications, ITS, or other utility ducts along the 
Transmission Gully Motorway. 
 
This should include the number of ducts, linear kilometres of ducts, whether any ducts were 
outfitted with subduct, number of vaults or chambers, cost of the works, and how costs were 
apportioned (i.e. entirely to utility operators, split between operators, etc.). 
 
Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency is extending the 20 working days available to us to respond to your 
request as allowed for under section 15A of the Act. We need four more working days to respond to 
your request. We wil  send you our response on or before 22 October 2021.  
 
The deadline is being extended because of the additional consultations currently underway which are 
necessary to make a decision on your request, in-part due to the work resulting from the Alert Level 4 
lockdown and the impact on projects such as Transmission Gully. A thorough response to your 
request cannot reasonably be made within the 20-working-day limit.  
 
Under section 28 of the Act, you have the right to complain to the Ombudsman about the extension. 
More information about the Ombudsman is available online at www.ombudsman.parliament.nz.  
 
If you would like to discuss this reply with Waka Kotahi or to set up a meeting to discuss this topic 
further, please contact the Ministerial Services team by email to [email address]. 
 
 
Yours sincerely 
 
Jurgita Klein 
Manager – Ministerial Services 
 
  

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