Motorway costs
Barry Garrick made this Official Information request to New Zealand Transport Agency
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From: Barry Garrick
Dear New Zealand Transport Agency,
The former Minister of Transport in 2017 said of the following planned four-lane motorways "...are expected to cost around $10.5 billion" - can I please have any and all advice and estimates that shows the expected costs for them provided in 2017?
Wellsford to Whangarei
East West Link in Auckland
Cambridge to Tirau
Piarere to the foot of the Kaimai Range
Tauranga to Katikati
Napier to Hastings
Manawatu Gorge
Levin to Sanson
Christchurch Northern Motorway
Christchurch to Ashburton
Yours faithfully,
Barry Garrick
From: Official Correspondence
New Zealand Transport Agency
Dear Barry
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New Zealand Transport Agency
Dear Barry
Please find attached a letter advising of an extension to your request for
information under the Official Information Act 1982 of 9 August 2019.
A response will now be sent to you on or before 27 September 2019.
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Ministerial Services
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From: Official Correspondence
New Zealand Transport Agency
Dear Barry
Please find attached a letter advising of an extension to your requests
for information under the Official Information Act 1982 of 9 August 2019.
A response will now be sent to you on or before 2 October 2019.
Regards
_________ _____________________________________________
Ministerial Services
Government – Engagement & Partnerships
Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency
National Office / 50 Victoria Street
Private Bag 6995, Wellington 6141, New Zealand
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From: Official Correspondence
New Zealand Transport Agency
Dear Barry
Please find attached the response to your request of 9 August 2019 for
information under the Official Information Act 1982.
Regards
_________ _____________________________________________
Ministerial Services
Government – Engagement & Partnerships
Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency
National Office / 50 Victoria Street
Private Bag 6995, Wellington 6141, New Zealand
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From: Barry Garrick
Dear NZTA,
Can you clarify that the NZTA does not hold cost estimates for any of those routes? If there are cost estimates for any of those routes, I would still like to request them regardless of who was talking about them.
Yours sincerely,
Barry Garrick
From: Official Correspondence
New Zealand Transport Agency
Dear Barry,
Thank you for your follow-up question regarding cost estimates. We can confirm that the NZ Transport Agency does not hold any cost estimates relating to those proposed roading improvements.
As outlined in our response, the proposal was from a political party as part of an election campaign. It would be against the law for the Transport Agency to be involved in developing election policy for a political party. As a result, we had no involvement in the development of those costs.
Kind regards,
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Ministerial Services
Government – Engagement & Partnerships
Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency
National Office / 50 Victoria Street
Private Bag 6995, Wellington 6141, New Zealand
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From: Barry Garrick
Dear NZTA,
Apologies to keep bothering you on this, but I'm confused. On the project pages for some of those proposed roads, there are estimated costs. For example, on the East West Link page, it says it will cost $1.25-1.85 billion.
Here: https://www.nzta.govt.nz/projects/east-w...
I understand that the NZTA did not provide cost estimates for that particular political party announcement, but it seems like the Agency did prepare costs for at least some of these projects for other purposes.
Is that the case? If so, what routes and what are they?
Yours sincerely,
Barry Garrick
From: Official Correspondence
New Zealand Transport Agency
Dear Barry,
Thank you for your email. We can confirm that some similar projects were
proposed by the Transport Agency but many were smaller in size and design
i.e. safety improvements to an existing road rather than construction of a
new four-lane road.
In order to explain this in more detail we will provide you with a formal
response, and you can expect a reply soon.
Kind regards
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Ministerial Services
Engagement & Partnerships
National Office / Victoria Arcade, 50 Victoria Street,
Private Bag 6995, Wellington 6141, New Zealand
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From: Official Correspondence
New Zealand Transport Agency
Dear Barry
Please find attached a response from Robyn Elston, Senior Manager, System
Design to your email of 1 October 2019.
Regards
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Ministerial Services
Government – Engagement & Partnerships
Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency
National Office / 50 Victoria Street
Private Bag 6995, Wellington 6141, New Zealand
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From: Barry Garrick
Dear Official Correspondence,
Thank you kindly. Much appreciated.
Yours sincerely,
Barry Garrick
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