Request for Metropolitan rail: external benefits and optimal funding Report

Tony Randle made this Official Information request to New Zealand Transport Agency

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From: Tony Randle

Dear New Zealand Transport Agency,

Today the Stuff news site had a story titled "Government-funded report advocated cheaper Wellington rail fares - but it was never published" (https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/1022791...). This story was based on a NZTA report called "Metropolitan rail: external benefits and optimal funding", The story claimed the report "evaluated optimal subsidies for rail in Wellington and Auckland" and it was "released last month under the Official Information Act".

1) Can I have a copy of the Metropolitan rail: external benefits and optimal funding Report referred to in this story ?

2) Can I have a copy of the report Terms of Reference and/or letter of engagement and/or other information that outlined the purpose and deliverables of this report when it was commissioned ?

3) Can I have a copy of the supporting calculations from the report consultants that "found rail fares in Wellington should be subsidised by between 55 and 100 per cent, and that the "average" fare should be about $1.70" ?

4) Can I have a copy of the "internal peer review" of the report referred to in the story ?

If this information is held in electornic form, I would prefer it was provided in its complete and original electronic format.

Yours faithfully,

Tony Randle

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Dear New Zealand Transport Agency,

 

Today the Stuff news site had a story titled "Government-funded report
advocated cheaper Wellington rail fares - but it was never published"
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This story was based on a NZTA report called "Metropolitan rail: external
benefits and optimal funding", The story claimed the report "evaluated
optimal subsidies for rail in Wellington and Auckland" and it was
"released last month under the Official Information Act".

 

1) Can I have a copy of the Metropolitan rail: external benefits and
optimal funding Report referred to in this story ?

 

2) Can I have a copy of the report Terms of Reference and/or letter of
engagement and/or other information that outlined the purpose and
deliverables of this report when it was commissioned ?

 

3) Can I have a copy of the supporting calculations from the report
consultants that "found rail fares in Wellington should be subsidised by
between 55 and 100 per cent, and that the "average" fare should be about
$1.70" ?

 

4) Can I have a copy of the "internal peer review" of the report referred
to in the story ?

 

If this information is held in electornic form, I would prefer it was
provided in its complete and original electronic format.

 

Yours faithfully,

 

Tony Randle

 

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Dear Mr Randle

 

Please find attached a letter advising of an extension to your request for
information under the Official Information Act 1982 of 23 March 2018.

 

A response will now be sent to you on or before 2 May 2018.

 

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Ministerial Services

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Dear Tony

 

Please find attached the response to your request of 23 March 2018 for
information under the Official Information Act 1982.

 

Regards

 

_________  _____________________________________________   

 

Ministerial Services

Governance, Stakeholders and Communications

50 Victoria Street, Private Bag 6995, Wellington 6141, New Zealand 

_________  _____________________________________________   

 

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