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Dear Bevan

 

Please find attached the response to your request of 9 August 2021 for
information under the Official Information Act 1982.

 

Regards

 

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Te Waka Kōtuia | Engagement & Partnerships
Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency

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From: Bevan Woodward <[5][FOI #16350 email]>
Sent: Monday, 9 August 2021 2:22 pm
To: Official Correspondence <[6][NZTA request email]>
Subject: Official Information request - Walking and cycling across the
Auckland Harbour Bridge: GetAcross

 

Dear New Zealand Transport Agency,

 

Official Information Act Request to NZTA:
                                                                                            

 

1)            This Herald
article:https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlo...
states “A November briefing paper to Transport Minister Michael Wood
warned the "loading restrictions" would be needed within the next 20
years”. Please provide:

 

a)            a copy of the November briefing paper to Transport Minister
Michael Wood

b)            a copy of the technical advice to NZTA that advises the AHB
cannot be further strengthened

c)            a copy of the most recent load capacity study (draft or
finalised) and any peer reviews prepared for NZTA.

 

2)            Please specify what work NZTA has been had done to determine
the actual measured differential temperature effects on the AHB Box
Girders, including;

 

a)            providing a copy of the report on the details of the work
and the results

b)            advising whether such work has been used to update the load
capacity studies (in particular that referred to in 1(c) above) done for
NZTA?

 

3)            At the NZTA Board meeting on 20 August 2018, management
advised the SkyPath design was “a buildable project, which can run in
conjunction with vehicles, subject to the need to control flow.” (See page
14:
[7]https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlo...)

 

a)            Please provide the technical reports to support this advice
to the NZTA Board.

b)            What consideration was given to adopting the AHB
strengthening solution prepared by Holmes Consulting Group in order to
remove the requirement for “the need to control flow” for the SkyPath
design?

[8]https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlo...

 

4)            Following the NZTA Board meeting on 20 August 2018, the NZTA
chair wrote to the Minister of Transport advising:

 

“Assuming the detailed business case confirms the economic case, the
Skypath project will be able to proceed to implementation. Once the
necessary designs are complete and consents in place construction can
begin."

NZTA letter dated 21 August 2018

[9]https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlo...

 

Please advise the course of events and with supporting documentation and
technical reports, including dates of key decisions, to explain why NZTA
chose not to proceed with the SkyPath design.

 

5)            NZTA’s HARBOUR BRIDGE SHARED PATH – SSBC (Dated 6 January
2020) states on Page 20 with regards to Option 1: “the Agency’s
engineering advice is that the design would need to be altered to enable
delivery of a technically achievable scheme. The extent of the design
changes are likely to be sufficient that variations to the consents would
be needed”.

 

Please provide:

a)            details of this engineering advice, including what aspects
of the SkyPath design would need to be altered and why.

b)            details of the likely variations to the consents.

c)            copies of any technical report(s) relied upon in providing
such advice.

 

6)            In terms of assessing the traffic impacts by taking the
western-most traffic lane (per Option 3, NZTA’s HARBOUR BRIDGE SHARED PATH
– Single stage business case dated 6 January 2020), has (or will) NZTA
include modelling which takes into account the effect of road pricing?

 

7)            This media statement from Hon Michael Wood:

[10]https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlo...

states “In the meantime, Waka Kotahi will continue to work on how to
provide safe temporary trials of using lanes on the existing harbour
bridge for cyclists and pedestrians.”

 

OIA-8193 RESPONSE advises "We have discussed a trial versus regular access
on the bridge with the Board who have asked for and extra work necessary
to understand the cost and risks associated with providing access. Any
decision to provide access will be made by the board"

 

Please advise when the NZTA Board intends making its decision regarding
access for pedestrians and cyclists across the Auckland Harbour Bridge.

 

8)            On Saturday, May 29 we learnt from Auckland Transport’s that
the western clip on lanes of the AHB would be closed to traffic for the
Bike Auckland rally.  On Sunday, May 30 NZTA’s traffic management vehicles
were in place ready for the rally. 

 

Please advise:

 

a)            Given NZTA had organised to close the western clip-on lanes
to traffic on Sunday, May 30, why did NZTA position their moveable barrier
so that of the six remaining available traffic lanes, only two were
northbound? 

 

b)            Please provide a copy of correspondence between NZTA and
Auckland Transport or NZ Police in relation to the traffic management for
the Bike Auckland rally on Sunday, May 30. 

 

Do not hesitate to contact me with any questions on the above information
requests.

 

Yours faithfully,

 

Bevan Woodward

 

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