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From: Bob Sharp <[FOI #9325 email]>
Sent: Sunday, 30 December 2018 9:41 PM
To: Official Correspondence <[NZTA request email]>
Subject: Official Information request - Legality of Go-karts and/or bikes
on footpaths and roads

 

Dear New Zealand Transport Agency,

 

I am wondering if it is legal for one to ride a bike and/or a go-kart on
the footpath, and by extension, the road for the go-kart. The website's
definitions and regulations on low-powered vehicles is vague, and makes no
mention of powered go-karts.

 

I have ridden my bicycle on the footpath for my own safety, especially on
busier roads, and the police have had no interest in enforcing that I ride
on the road even though I have a suspicion that it is unlawful. Is there
data on people having been dealt to by police due to having ridden a bike
on a footpath?

 

I believe that if it is unsafe for one to conduct themselves and their
small vehicle on the road, then the footpath should be allowed to be used
only if the user is being sensible; this makes sense to me and seems to
be, thankfully, the way laws are enforced in NZ - for the safety of all.
If I drive a go-kart slowly on a footpath, or close to the left side of a
road with a harness and helmet, am I breaking laws, and if so, please
update your websites to make this more obvious but also reconsider the
rationality behind them.

 

Yours faithfully,

Bob Sharp

 

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Dear Bob

 

Please find attached a letter advising of a partial transfer of your
request for information under the Official Information Act 1982 of

30 December 2018.

 

Your request is being transferred to Police, and you can expect to receive
further correspondence from them.

 

Highlighted within the attached file is details of the transfer.

 

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Dear Bob

 

I refer to your Official Information Act request of 11 January 2019 for
information relating to riding a bike on footpaths.

 

I have been informed by the work group responsible for your request that
the information can be answered in part but not as originally requested.

 

Infringement numbers can be provided for ‘riding a cycle on lawn or
footpath’ so would include lawn infringements as well as footpath.

 

‘Drove on footpath’ infringement numbers can also be provided but this
would include motorbike data as well as cyclist.

 

Given these changes, are you still interested in pursuing your request as
originally stated?

 

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Dear Bob

Please find attached a response from Michael Aitken, Senior Manager
Operational Policy, Planning and Intelligence to your email of 30 December
2018.

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Dear Bob

 

Please find attached the New Zealand Police response to your Official
Information Act request.

 

Ngā mihi

 

Hannah Wright-McCarthy

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