31 July 2024
File Ref: OIAPR-1274023063-28888
Darren Conway
By email:
mailto:[FYI request #27506 email]
Tēnā koe Darren
Request for information 2024-162
I refer to your request for information originally sent to New Zealand Transport Agency dated 4
July 2024, which was transferred and received by Greater Wellington Regional Council (Greater
Wellington) on 22 July 2024. You have requested the following:
“
This is a request for the Riverlink Report by Emma Hope. The existence of this document was
reported in the local news paper. It is assumed that the Hope report includes economic
analysis. This request for information includes the documents used to calculate economics and
CO2 emissions for the Hope report. It is assumed these documents will be one or more
spreadsheets to calculate the capital benefits & cost analysis and CIPA. This request is for the
unadulterated spreadsheets
Please:
un-hide all sheets and cells.
unlock all cells and sheets
This request specifically includes, but is not limited to:
the values in the spreadsheets,
the formula applied to the values,
notes and text in the spreadsheets.
any documents/spreadsheets linked to the main economics analysis spreadsheets. PDF files
are not acceptable substitutes for spreadsheets because the formulae are erased.
Please release:
the Riverlink Hope Report
the spreadsheets used to produce the report
Wellington office Upper Hutt Masterton office 0800 496 734
PO Box 11646 PO Box 40847 PO Box 41
www.gw.govt.nz
Manners St, Wel ington 6142 1056 Fergusson Drive
Masterton 5840
[email address]
the latest versions of the spreadsheets if not the same as above
other documents that are linked to the spreadsheets, if there are links.”
Greater Wellington’s response follows:
The Greater Wellington report “Te Wai Takamori o te Awa Kairangi – expected impacts on public
transport” is publicly available at
https://www.gw.govt.nz/document/22729/council-27-june-
2024-order-paper/ (from page 430 of the order paper). Our assumption is this is the ‘Hope
Report’ you are referring to in your request, as it was referenced as such by journalist Nicholas
Boyack in his June 27, 2024 article ‘
Bridge could be the key to more trains on Melling Line’. For
your further information this report references a previous report from May 30 2024 Greater
Wellington Council report, ‘Te Wai Takamori O Te Awa Kairangi - Agreed Transport Objectives’,
which is also publicly available, from page 73 of the order paper downloadable at:
https://www.gw.govt.nz/document/22646/council-30-may-2024-order-paper/
These two reports do not include any “capital benefits & cost analysis and CIPA”. Therefore, we
have refused this part of your request under section 17(e) of the Local Government Official
Information and Meetings Act 1987 on the basis that the document alleged to contain the
information requested does not exist.
If you have any concerns with the decision(s) referred to in this letter, you have the right to
request an investigation and review by the Ombudsman under section 27(3) of the Local
Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987.
Please note that it is our policy to proactively release our responses to official information
requests where possible. Our response to your request will be published shortly on Greater
Wellington’s website with your personal information removed.
Nāku iti noa, nā
Luke Troy
Kaiwhakahaere Matua Rautaki | Group Manager Strategy
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