By email 
Shed 39, 2 Fryat  Quay 
Pipitea, Wellington 6011 
PO Box 11646 
18 January 2019 
Manners Street 
Wellington 6142 
T  04 384 5708 
File Ref:  OIAP-7-9148 
F  04 385 6960 
www.gw.govt.nz 
Hugh Davenport 
[FYI request #9155 email] 
Dear Mr Davenport 
Request for information 2018-356 
I  refer  to  your  request  for  information  dated  30  November  2018  which  was  received  by  Greater 
Wellington  Regional  Council  (GWRC)  on  30  November  2018.  You  have  requested  the  following 
information: 
I would like to request any correspondence and documentation about the safety features on 
Metlink buses, including any documentation showing Metlink meeting regulatory 
requirements or not. 
 
Specifically, I would be interested in anything to do with vertical bars (stanchions) 
placement on buses, horizontal bar placements on buses, grab handle placements on buses. 
Documentation about whether Metlink meets the requirements for these safety features as 
laid out in https://www.nzta.govt.nz/assets/resources/requirements-for-urban-
buses/docs/requirements-for-urban-buses.pdf section 4.3 and 4.4 would be good. 
 
Also any documentation, correspondence or discussion about installation or removal of any 
of these safety features. 
 
In addition, any records from the bus numbered 2485 about these safety features would be 
beneficial for this request. 
 
General summary of that document is: 
- Vertical bars should be placed on every row alternating left and right except in priority 
seating areas 
- Horizontal bars should be placed at no more than 1900mm from the floor, or have grab 
handles attached that hang below 1900mm. 
 
It  is  necessary  for  GWRC  to  extend  the  time  available  to  it  to  answer  your  request  to  4 
February 2019.  This  decision  is  made  pursuant  to  section  14  of  the  Local  Government  Official 
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Information  and  Meetings  Act  1987  (the  Act)  on  the  basis  that  consultations  necessary  to  make  a 
decision on your request are such that a proper response to your request cannot be reasonably made 
within the original 20 working day time limit. 
You have the right, under section 27(3) of the Act, to make a complaint about this extension to the 
Ombudsman. 
Yours sincerely 
 
 
Angus Gabara 
Acting GM Public Transport 
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