We are looking here at reduced speed limits in areas where logic doesnt justify this.

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Official Information Act Request – Speed Limit Reductions, Enforcement Revenue, Safety Evidence and Affordability Impact

 

I request the following information under the Official Information Act 1982.

 

This request concerns speed-limit reductions, enforcement planning, fine revenue, road-safety evidence, and the financial impact on the public.

 

For the period 1 January 2020 to the date of this request, please provide:

 

1. Decision-making records  

All final decision papers, briefings, reports, memoranda, approvals, or recommendations relied upon when deciding to reduce speed limits on roads within your authority or responsibility.

 

2. Safety evidence  

All crash data, risk assessments, road-safety assessments, engineering reports, speed-management assessments, and safety modelling relied upon to justify speed-limit reductions.

 

3. Revenue and enforcement modelling  

Any documents, forecasts, estimates, briefings, or internal analysis concerning infringement revenue, fine revenue, enforcement volume, camera enforcement, Police enforcement targets, or expected enforcement outcomes connected with reduced speed limits.

 

4. Cost-benefit analysis  

Any cost-benefit analysis, economic assessment, productivity assessment, travel-time assessment, freight impact assessment, or public affordability assessment undertaken before or after speed-limit reductions.

 

5. Public consultation  

All final consultation summaries, submissions analysis, public feedback reports, and decision-maker advice concerning public support or opposition to the speed-limit reductions.

 

6. Alternatives considered  

Any documents identifying less restrictive or less punitive alternatives considered, including road engineering, signage, road maintenance, hazard removal, intersection redesign, education, or targeted enforcement rather than blanket speed reduction.

 

7. Delegations and authority  

The statutory provisions, delegations, warrants, authorisations, or internal authority relied upon by the decision-makers who approved the speed-limit reductions.

 

8. Review or reversal documents  

Any documents concerning review, reconsideration, reversal, or criticism of speed-limit reductions, including any documents created in response to the Land Transport Rule: Setting of Speed Limits 2024 or subsequent amendments.

 

For clarity, this request is not seeking every internal email. I seek formal or final documents, decision records, briefings, reports, modelling, assessments, and documents relied upon by decision-makers.

 

If any part of this request is considered broad, please do not refuse it without first consulting me under section 18B of the Act. I am willing to refine the request to particular roads, regions, decision periods, or document classes if required.

 

Please also identify any information transferred to another agency under section 14.

 

Yours faithfully,

 

Tracy lynch