Dear Wellington Regional Council,

Attention Margaret Meek

I would like to request the licence plate number, and the driver ID number of the following buses. I should note that this is a large request, however all these buses have been reported to Metlink prior so I would hope that their processes have already gathered this information so this information should not be substantial to collate. For clarification, the reports were given to Metlink via email on 24 Oct 2018, 10 Nov 2018, 24 Nov 2018, and 10 Dec 2018. The buses in this batch are all from the folder "Entering on a red light" from each of those reports. None of the other folders have been used for this to limit the scope and potential of letting in "not that illegal" results.

All of these buses are likely to clearly have broken the law as per Land Transport (Road User) Rule 2004, section 3.2 (5).

Videos are available at https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1..., https://drive.google.com/open?id=1OgnA1x..., https://drive.google.com/open?id=1j5ovgm..., and https://drive.google.com/open?id=1txqlKp....

As the footage of the videos are not of the highest quality, some of the details can't be made out. This is shown by question marks surrounding the field (such as route ?2? meaning maybe 2, or route ?? meaning unknown (may be NIS)). All of the buses will be travelling through the Willis st intersection at Chews Lane. I've made an effort to list either southbound or northbound, but this may be wrong due to user error.

If any information is not easily available (due to the time, route, or direction not being accurate), please don't go to too much trouble to collate the information but please also state that you have not collated that particular information.

This information is being used to determine whether any bus drivers are repeat offenders. This is something that I would have hoped that Metlink have done prior given my reports. If that is the case, then the information should be readily available. If that is not the case... I'm sure you will follow up with any repeat offenders.

The list of buses are as follows:

Reported 24 Oct 2018
Oct 11 2018, 10:24am, route 1GV, double, green, north
Oct 11 2018, 4:39pm, route 1GV, single, green, north
Oct 18 2018, 5:45pm, route 3, single, green, north
Oct 16 2018, 3:41pm, route 3, single, yellow, north
Oct 16 2018, 6:36pm, route 91, single, orange, north
Oct 23 2018, 1:39pm, route 3, single, blue, north
Oct 23 2018, 2:25pm, route 1, double, green, south
Oct 23 2018, 7:06pm, route 52, single, green, north
Oct 9 2018, 9:36am, route 52, single, green, north
Oct 10 2018, 3:08pm, route 7, single, green, north
Oct 10 2018, 3:10pm, route 1GV, single, green, north
Oct 17 2018, 2:56pm, route 52, single, green, north
Oct 17 2018, 7:37pm, route 52, single, green, north, cop behind
Oct 24 2018, 8:06am, route 7, double, green, north

Reported 10 Nov 2018
Nov 9 2018, 7:13am, route ?26?, single, green, north
Nov 9 2018, 4:41pm, route 7, single, green, south
Nov 9 2018, 8:15pm, route ?1?, single, green, north
Nov 5 2018, 2:35pm, route 1CP, double, green, north
Nov 8 2018, 9:00am, route 32x, double, green, north
Nov 7 2018, 5:02pm, route ?32?, single, green, north
Oct 31 2018, 2:23pm, route 7, single, green, north

Reported 24 Nov 2018
Nov 12 2018, 8:49pm, route 23e, single, green, north
Nov 12 2018, 9:02am, route 24, single, green, north
Nov 12 2018, 4:15pm, route ??, single, green, north
Nov 15 2018, 8:59am, route 36, single, green, north
Nov 15 2018, 10:11am, route 1, double, green, south
Nov 15 2018, 1:38pm, route 52, single, green, north
Nov 15 2018, 4:12pm, route 60e, single, green, north
Nov 22 2018, 9:25am, route 2, single, green, north
Nov 22 2018, 1:51pm, route 25, single, green, north
Nov 22 2018, 2:54pm, route ??, single, yellow, north
Nov 22 2018, 6:23pm, route 7, single, green, north
Nov 22 2018, 5:05pm, route 24, single, green, north
Nov 22 2018, 5:14pm, route 56, single, green, north
Nov 22 2018, 6:10pm, route 52, single, green, north
Nov 20 2018, 4:36pm, route 56, single, green, north
Nov 20 2018, 4:43pm, route 57, single, green, north
Nov 14 2018, 5:34pm, route 2, single, green, north

Reported 10 Dec 2018
Dec 3 2018, 3:43pm, route 14, single, yellow, north
Dec 4 2018, 7:23am, route 24, single, green, north
Dec 4 2018, 8:37am, route 83, single, yellow, north
Dec 4 2018, 9:28am, route ?2?, single, yellow, south
Dec 4 2018, 10:27am, route 1CP, double, green, north
Dec 4 2018, 12:11pm, route 52, single, green, south
Dec 4 2018, 12:26pm, route 24, single, green, south
Dec 4 2018, 1:31pm, route 1, double, green, south
Dec 4 2018, 3:53pm, route 25, single, green, north
Dec 5 2018, 3:38pm, route 32x, single, green, south
Dec 5 2018, 4:38pm, route 56, single, green, north
Dec 5 2018, 9:18pm, route ??, single, green, south
Dec 6 2018, 7:13am, route ??, single, green, north
Dec 6 2018, 7:40am, route 1, double, green, south
Dec 6 2018, 8:38am, route ??, single, green, south
Dec 6 2018, 9:28am, route 25, single, green, south
Dec 6 2018, 11:48am, route ??, single, yellow, north
Dec 6 2018, 11:57am, route 7, double, green, north
Dec 6 2018, 5:09pm, route ??, single, yellow, north
Dec 6 2018, 6:05pm, route ?29e or 23e?, single, green, south
Dec 6 2018, 6:12pm, route 29e, single, green, south
Dec 6 2018, 6:58pm, route 23e, double, green, south
Dec 7 2018, 8:05am, route 81, single, green, south
Dec 7 2018, 10:44am, route 91, single, orange, north
Nov 29 2018, 3:51pm, route 14, single, green, north

Yours faithfully,

Hugh Davenport

Dear Nichola Powell,

I'm a bit confused why this information was not recovered when these reports were given to Metlink via email on 24 Oct 2018, 10 Nov 2018, 24 Nov 2018, and 10 Dec 2018. One would hope that given a large amount of reports with VIDEO evidence of bus drivers breaking the law, that Metlink would do a bit more than just send one email (which is all that seems to have happened given my previous LGOIMA), and filing it all under one ticket. I think that your organisation should think very carefully about how they treat safety concerns with their bus drivers.

How about I limit the scope of my request to just the driver ID, and the following:

Reported 24 Oct 2018
Oct 11 2018, 10:24am, route 1GV, double, green, north
Oct 11 2018, 4:39pm, route 1GV, single, green, north
Oct 18 2018, 5:45pm, route 3, single, green, north
Oct 16 2018, 3:41pm, route 3, single, yellow, north
Oct 16 2018, 6:36pm, route 91, single, orange, north
Oct 23 2018, 1:39pm, route 3, single, blue, north
Oct 23 2018, 2:25pm, route 1, double, green, south
Oct 23 2018, 7:06pm, route 52, single, green, north
Oct 9 2018, 9:36am, route 52, single, green, north
Oct 10 2018, 3:08pm, route 7, single, green, north
Oct 10 2018, 3:10pm, route 1GV, single, green, north
Oct 17 2018, 2:56pm, route 52, single, green, north
Oct 17 2018, 7:37pm, route 52, single, green, north, cop behind
Oct 24 2018, 8:06am, route 7, double, green, north

If this is still too much, then please contact me as per section 17B of the LGOIMA. Clearly I am happy to limit my request, so I very much hope that you considered consulting with me. I would like to know the reasoning behind your consideration of *not* consulting me.
"If a request is likely to be refused under section 17(e) or (f), the local authority must, before that request is refused, consider whether consulting with the person who made the request would assist that person to make the request in a form that would remove the reason for the refusal."

Yours sincerely,

Hugh Davenport

Dear Wellington Regional Council,

Attention Margaret Meek

Can I please get acknowledgement about the scope decrease on this, or should I open a new ticket? Feel free to contact me under 17B of the LGOIMA. I would also like to know the reasoning behind your consideration of *not* consulting with me for this request before refusing it.

Yours faithfully,

Hugh Davenport

Dear Wellington Regional Council,

While the issue with red light running was discussed in a meeting with Greg Pollock today, I'm still don't have transparency of whether Metlink have indeed followed up with the operators on the serious incidents, and would still be interested in this information.

Yours faithfully,

Hugh Davenport

Dear Margaret Meek,

I believe the follow up I sent on March 19 is now overdue using the Ombudsman's response calculator.

Yours sincerely,

Hugh Davenport

Dear Greg Pollock,

Thanks for that. Could I further change my request to the following:

For each of the buses below (I have gone back to the full list again as you mention you have an alternate method of extracting the information, however if this is likely to be refused under s17(f), then please contact me and I can reduce it), please provide:
a) The licence plate number of the bus
b) While providing privacy of the driver, the number of times that the driver of this bus at this time would be driving another bus at a date/time specified in the list.
- A few examples of the data I want:
- If bus driver ID #1 was driving a bus route 1GV north on Oct 11 2018 at 10:24am, and driver ID #1 was also driving route 23e on Nov 12 2018 at 8:49pm, then the number in the response should be 2.
- If driver ID #2 was driving a bus route 1GV north on Oct 11 2018 at 4:39pm, and no other bus in the list below, then the number in the response should be 1.
- Hopefully you get the picture here, but please contact me if that doesn't make sense. I don't want to remove anyones privacy. My aim is to determine whether any of these serious incidents involved the same driver. There may be 63 unique drivers (number in the response all 1), or there could just be 1 driver doing mayhem in the city (number in the response all 63), or there could be a mix of drivers in the list. I would expect that given all of these incidents were reported to Metlink, and all contained some serious incidents, that Metlink have already done the due diligence and worked out whether there are a select few drivers, or it is evenly spread over the fleet. Given my responses from Metlink to date, I don't believe this is the case, hence my asking as an OIA.
c) While providing privacy of the driver, the number of times the driver had any remedial training:
i) after the incident, and
ii) prior to the incident
- For "remedial training", I don't know what Metlink and/or the operator call this, but for clarity, I'm meaning any training required of the driver due to an incident reported to Metlink and/or the operator
- For example, if driver ID #1 appears in the list below, and in the past they were required to undergo 3 remedial training sessions prior to the incident (as reported to the operator), and then maybe 2 more remedial training sessions after the incident, then the response should be: i) 3, and ii) 2.
d) The date on which this incident was reported to the operator. If this incident was never reported to the operator, then a brief reasoning on why.
e) The case number of the incident.

The list of buses are as follows:

Reported 24 Oct 2018
Oct 11 2018, 10:24am, route 1GV, double, green, north
Oct 11 2018, 4:39pm, route 1GV, single, green, north
Oct 18 2018, 5:45pm, route 3, single, green, north
Oct 16 2018, 3:41pm, route 3, single, yellow, north
Oct 16 2018, 6:36pm, route 91, single, orange, north
Oct 23 2018, 1:39pm, route 3, single, blue, north
Oct 23 2018, 2:25pm, route 1, double, green, south
Oct 23 2018, 7:06pm, route 52, single, green, north
Oct 9 2018, 9:36am, route 52, single, green, north
Oct 10 2018, 3:08pm, route 7, single, green, north
Oct 10 2018, 3:10pm, route 1GV, single, green, north
Oct 17 2018, 2:56pm, route 52, single, green, north
Oct 17 2018, 7:37pm, route 52, single, green, north, cop behind
Oct 24 2018, 8:06am, route 7, double, green, north

Reported 10 Nov 2018
Nov 9 2018, 7:13am, route ?26?, single, green, north
Nov 9 2018, 4:41pm, route 7, single, green, south
Nov 9 2018, 8:15pm, route ?1?, single, green, north
Nov 5 2018, 2:35pm, route 1CP, double, green, north
Nov 8 2018, 9:00am, route 32x, double, green, north
Nov 7 2018, 5:02pm, route ?32?, single, green, north
Oct 31 2018, 2:23pm, route 7, single, green, north

Reported 24 Nov 2018
Nov 12 2018, 8:49pm, route 23e, single, green, north
Nov 12 2018, 9:02am, route 24, single, green, north
Nov 12 2018, 4:15pm, route ??, single, green, north
Nov 15 2018, 8:59am, route 36, single, green, north
Nov 15 2018, 10:11am, route 1, double, green, south
Nov 15 2018, 1:38pm, route 52, single, green, north
Nov 15 2018, 4:12pm, route 60e, single, green, north
Nov 22 2018, 9:25am, route 2, single, green, north
Nov 22 2018, 1:51pm, route 25, single, green, north
Nov 22 2018, 2:54pm, route ??, single, yellow, north
Nov 22 2018, 6:23pm, route 7, single, green, north
Nov 22 2018, 5:05pm, route 24, single, green, north
Nov 22 2018, 5:14pm, route 56, single, green, north
Nov 22 2018, 6:10pm, route 52, single, green, north
Nov 20 2018, 4:36pm, route 56, single, green, north
Nov 20 2018, 4:43pm, route 57, single, green, north
Nov 14 2018, 5:34pm, route 2, single, green, north

Reported 10 Dec 2018
Dec 3 2018, 3:43pm, route 14, single, yellow, north
Dec 4 2018, 7:23am, route 24, single, green, north
Dec 4 2018, 8:37am, route 83, single, yellow, north
Dec 4 2018, 9:28am, route ?2?, single, yellow, south
Dec 4 2018, 10:27am, route 1CP, double, green, north
Dec 4 2018, 12:11pm, route 52, single, green, south
Dec 4 2018, 12:26pm, route 24, single, green, south
Dec 4 2018, 1:31pm, route 1, double, green, south
Dec 4 2018, 3:53pm, route 25, single, green, north
Dec 5 2018, 3:38pm, route 32x, single, green, south
Dec 5 2018, 4:38pm, route 56, single, green, north
Dec 5 2018, 9:18pm, route ??, single, green, south
Dec 6 2018, 7:13am, route ??, single, green, north
Dec 6 2018, 7:40am, route 1, double, green, south
Dec 6 2018, 8:38am, route ??, single, green, south
Dec 6 2018, 9:28am, route 25, single, green, south
Dec 6 2018, 11:48am, route ??, single, yellow, north
Dec 6 2018, 11:57am, route 7, double, green, north
Dec 6 2018, 5:09pm, route ??, single, yellow, north
Dec 6 2018, 6:05pm, route ?29e or 23e?, single, green, south
Dec 6 2018, 6:12pm, route 29e, single, green, south
Dec 6 2018, 6:58pm, route 23e, double, green, south
Dec 7 2018, 8:05am, route 81, single, green, south
Dec 7 2018, 10:44am, route 91, single, orange, north
Nov 29 2018, 3:51pm, route 14, single, green, north

Yours sincerely,

Hugh Davenport