Kia ora Greater Wellington Regional Council,

This email contains three requests under the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act.

1) Please provide me with a list of the titles, dates, and filing system reference numbers of documents held that model the provision of passenger bus routes between:
a. Porirua and Lower Hutt
b. Porirua and Petone
c. Tawa and Lower Hutt
d. Tawa and Petone
e. Grenada and Lower Hutt
f. Grenada and Petone
g. Johnsonville and Lower Hutt
h. Johnsonville and Petone
i. Newlands and Lower Hutt
j. Newlands and Petone
k. Woodridge and Lower Hutt
l. Woodridge and Petone

2) Please provide me with a list of the titles, dates, and filing system reference numbers of documents held that model the provision of passenger rail transport between:
a. Porirua (or stations further north and south) and Petone
b. Porirua (or stations further north and south) and Lower Hutt

3) If the Council decides that good reason exists under sections 6 or 7 of LGOIMA to withhold any information from me in response to requests (1) and (2) above, I separately request under section 18(a)(ii) of LGOIMA to be given the grounds in support of each instance of information being withheld. If the Council is unsure how to comply with section 18(a)(ii) requests, please refer to the Ombudsman’s case note here: https://www.ombudsman.parliament.nz/reso... .

Under section 15(2), my preferred means of receiving this information is in a text-searchable format, either a Word document or spreadsheet using columns for document title, date, and filing system reference.

I look forward to receiving the Council’s response as soon as reasonably practicable.

Ngā mihi,

Andrew Ecclestone

Dear Mr Wallace-Thexton,

I'm sorry that you don't understand "'documents held that model the provision' of Bus and Train services."

I am seeking information from GWRC that concerns any exploration by the Council (or contractors for which it now holds the records) of the options for running passenger bus and/or train routes between the locations outlined in my request.

GWRC's Regional Public Transport Plan (https://www.gw.govt.nz/your-region/plans... ) sets out (on pages 31-32) the criteria for considering possible new transport connections.

NZTA is currently exploring the possibility of a building a new road between Grenada and Petone (https://nzta.govt.nz/projects/petone-to-...). The Agency claims (page 5 of the Business Case https://nzta.govt.nz/assets/projects/pet... ) that there are 70,000 vehicle movements per day along the current SH1 and SH2 between Grenada and Petone. Seventy thousand vehicle movements could be partially offset by GWRC/Metlink providing bus or train routes between the places mentioned in my request. I would like to see the information relating to any GWRC consideration of providing such passengers services.

I had been hoping to reduce your workload by only seeking the filenames, dates and filing system references for this information. If this request does not make sense to you, then I'll amend it to request the information about the exploration of possible routes itself.

Yours sincerely,

Andrew Ecclestone