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20 January 2023
Darren Conway
[FYI request #21041 email]
REF: OIA-11407
Dear Darren
Request made under the Official Information Act 1982
Thank you for your emails of 4 November 2022 requesting information under the Official Information
Act 1982 (the Act) regarding the Pito-one to Melling (P2M) Cycleway.
My response to each part of your request is provided below.
The NZTA Safe Systems Design Process
Internet links to, or electronic copies of documents that define the quality assurance and quality control
processes that are intended to prevent design failures and should have been applied to the P2M
project.
These may include manuals, procedures and guidance that define a:
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quality control review, a design review or a peer review,
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judgement of the quality of a project
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compliance check with standards, guidelines or drawings and specifications
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redesign of a project
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safe system audit.
Waka Kotahi understands that there is a strong public interest in making this information publicly
available and has therefore decided to publish the design documents on its website. We had hoped to
be in a position to publish the information in line with our response to your request made under the
Act, however, there have been unexpected delays while col ating the documents.
We anticipate that this information wil be published by the end of March 2023. Once published, the
information wil be publicly available on the Te Ara Tupua project page at:
www.nzta.govt.nz/projects/te-ara-tupua/.
I am therefore declining this part of your request under section 18(d) of the Act as the information
requested wil soon be publicly available.
The NZTA Safe Systems Design Process Output
The identities of the key decision makers accountable and responsible for the P2M design including
the: •
Project Sponsor, Jetesh Bhula
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Project Manager, Chris Nally and Jerrell Bagsic
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Client (if different to the above) Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency
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Lead Designer, AECOM
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Safety Engineer and, Steve James
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Safety Auditor. WSP
The names and positions of those responsible for the design of the P2M cycleway are listed above. I
am withholding the identities of external contractors under section 9(2)(a) of the Act in order to protect
the privacy of natural persons, including that of deceased natural persons. I do not consider there are
any other factors which would render it desirable, in the public interest, to make this information
available.
The P2M records of any:
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quality control review, design review or peer review,
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judgement of the quality of a project,
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compliance check with standards, guidelines or drawings and specifications (noting that
compliance with standards or other documents does not necessarily result in a safe system),
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safety systems audit and
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redesign work as a result of any review or safety audit.
The documents fal ing within scope of this part of your request are included in the information which
Waka Kotahi is preparing to make publicly available. Therefore, this part of your request has also been
declined under section 18(d) of the Act as the information requested wil soon be publicly available.
The Plan to Rectify Design Failures
The plans to rectify the design failures and deliver a safe P2M cycleway.
Waka Kotahi does not consider that there are any serious design failures in the P2M cycleway. As
such, no plans to rectify the alleged failures exists. I am therefore declining this section of your request
under section 18(e) of the Act as the document al eged to contain the information requested does not
exist.
Under section 28 of the Act, you have the right to ask the Ombudsman to review my decision to
withhold certain information and refuse parts of this request. The contact details for the Ombudsman
can be located at www.ombudsman.parliament.nz.
If you would like to discuss this reply with Waka Kotahi, please contact Ministerial Services by email to
[email address].
Yours sincerely
Mark Kinvig
National Manager Infrastructure Delivery
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