Auckland Harbour Crossing : Peer Review: Economic benefits of a cross-harbour walking and cycling link
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From: Darren Conway
Dear New Zealand Transport Agency,
Please provide the document:
Peer Review: economic benefits of a cross-harbour walking and cycling link (including wider economic benefits – WEBS), EY, June 2019
Referenced in the AUCKLAND HARBOUR BRIDGE SHARED PATH – SSBC, page 83, Footnote 48.
Yours faithfully,
Darren Conway
From: Official Correspondence
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From: Darren Conway
Hello Josh Driscoll
Thank you for the updated SSBC. I note that the update is unredacted with one exception. In a document full of estimated costs, the NZTA chose to redact the relatively minor costs that makeup the maintenance and operations estimates claiming s9(2)(j) as justification. It is difficult to perceive any scenario that might limit NZTA ability to negotiate any contract for the current crossing, future crossing or a project that is officially cancelled.
To use an analogy, If I said that I had purchased $100 of groceries over 3 years ago, which included $5 of apples, that would be meaningless without knowing the quantity (kg) of apples purchased, or the rate ($/kg). Even if the rates were revealed, it would have no bearing on the price of apples today or in the future.
I have considered the possibility that the Assumptions/Comments columns might contain commercially sensitive information, but there is no visible marking to indicate that might be. When considering the low-tech tasks described in the description, it would seem unlikely that any trade secrets or similar could be at risk if revealed.
To further claim a likely impact on NZTA ability to carry out negotiations for "future connections across the Waitematā Harbour", with all options having a 15-20 year construction horizon, lacks any measure of credibility.
Based on information already in the public domain, I challenge the decision to redact any part of Appendix H of the subject SSBC.
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Darren Conway
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The information redacted by the NZTA in the original release of this document, in response to an OIA request, was only unredacted as a result of a complaint to the Ombudsman. This includes the appendix.
The fact that all redacted information has now been released after intervention of the Ombudsman indicates that none of the information should have been redacted in the first place.
In addition, challenging the justification for redactions directly to the NZTA has proven to be ineffective. The lesson is that redactions in responses by the NZTA to OIA requests should trigger a complaint to the Ombudsman unless there is clear and obvious justification in the Official Information Act.
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