21 December 2018
Mr Tony Randle
By email:
[FYI request #9127 email]
Dear Tony
Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987 (“LGOIMA”):
Request for Information
I refer to your request dated 26/11/18 for information regarding the cost of Canterbury’s
public transport services under the new PTOM contracts. Your request has been referred
to me.
You have requested copies of:
• “the monthly fare revenue for each bus route or each bus PTOM unit for each month
since the bus services were taken over by carious bus operators under PTOM
contracts”;
• “the bus ticket sales by ticket type and ticket type revenue for each bus route or
each bus PTOM unit for each month since the bus services were taken over by
carious bus operators under PTOM contracts”; and
• “the monthly bus PTOM contract operating cost paid to bus operators for each
PTOM bus unit for each month since bus services were taken over by various bus
operators under PTOM contacts”.
As advised in our email to you dated 29 November, we are not currently running fully PTOM
compliant contracts. Furthermore, as our fare revenue data per route has been materially
influenced by significant disruptions from the Canterbury earthquakes, we have only
included the data requested from July 2014 onwards.
Please find attached a spreadsheet containing the information you have requested. You
will notice there are some grey cells in the spreadsheet where we have no information for
a specific category. For example:
• Where there has been a route change during the period of the information provided
(for example route 45);
• Where a particular ticket type is not used on a route (for example, complimentary
tickets in Timaru; and Supergold tickets on school routes);
File Number: GOVE/INQU/OMBU/1495C
• Where some routes are consolidated (for example route 89 and 99 are the
clockwise and anti-clockwise routes that together form the Orbiter route).
We are also withholding bus route contract costs as these are covered by commercial
contracts and releasing this information would unduly prejudice Environment Canterbury’s
pending procurement process and the contracted operators. We believe that withholding
this information is necessary to protect the information as making it available would
prejudice Environment Canterbury’s commercial position as well as the relevant bus
company’s commercial position (in terms of section 7(b)(ii) of LGOIMA). We do not
consider that the public interest in disclosing the information outweighs the grounds for
withholding it.
You will be aware that if you are not satisfied with this response you are able to refer this
matter to the Office of the Ombudsman under s27 (3) of the Local Government Official
Information and Meetings Act 1987.
Please be advised that we now put LGOIMA responses that are in the public interest onto
our website. No personal details of the requester are given, but we do summarise the
essence of the request alongside the response.
Should you require any further information or clarification, please do not hesitate to contact
Anna Paris in the first instan
ce [email address] or 033653828.
Yours sincerely,
Nadeine Dommisse
Chief Operating Officer
File Number: GOVE/INQU/OMBU/1495C
