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Cost of Gold card privilege

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From: Miss M Quicken

Dear New Zealand Transport Agency,

Age discrimination is problem in today's society where the discrimination is not tied into any means based testing.

Please provide the human rights assessment that was done regarding:

a) Providing free public transport to any Gold card holder/s

b) Ability for the gold card holders to not be tracked e.g. snapper

In addition please provide;

a) Statistics over gold card users who used public transport in FY25 or relevant period

b) Alternatively lost revenue projections due to Gold card in similar period.

c) Lobbying done by the minister/s to provide the free transport to gold card holders

Yours faithfully,

Miss M Quicken

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