Wairarapa Connection
Iain Palmer made this Official Information request to Wellington Regional Council
The request was partially successful.
From: Iain Palmer
Dear Wellington Regional Council,
Can you please provide the following information for each of the approx 60 services per week of the Wairarapa Connection Rail Service between Masterton and Wellington over the last five (5) years?
- Overall available seat capacity*
- Total number of carriages on the service (or buses, if bus replaced)
- Total passengers through the Rimutaka Tunnel**
- Total onboard crew
- On-time performance
- Number of Bikes and electric scooters
- Number of wheelchairs
* This would exclude any seating in carriages that are closed/out of use on the service.
** this would be the count departing Featherston southbound or Maymorn Northbound
In addition, can you please provide the mix of the staffing on the Wairarapa Connection rail service both currently, three (3) and five (5) years ago.
- full-time train managers
- part-time train managers
- full-time passenger operators
- part-time passenger operators
- split shift train managers (work in, head to another job, then work home)
- split shift passenger operators (work in, head to another job, then work home)
- any other staff (and role description)
Yours faithfully,
Iain Palmer
From: Darrell Young
Wellington Regional Council
Dear Iain,
Acknowledgement of Request for Information under the Local Government
Official Information and Meetings Act 1987
Thank you for your email dated 27 February 2022, requesting information
regarding the Wairarapa Connection.
Your request is being followed-up and a reply will be sent to you within
20 working days of the request being received.
Yours sincerely,
Darrell Young
for
Luke Troy
General
Manager
Strategy
Greater Wellington Regional Council
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From: Alice Clark
Wellington Regional Council
Kia ora Iain,
Attached is Greater Wellington’s response to your recent request for
information and corresponding attachment.
Thanks
Alice Clark
Kaiâwhina Matua ki te Kaiwhakahaere Matua Waka
Executive Assistant to General Manager Metlink
Metlink
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