All traffic analysis that was used to create the plans for the Sumners Road Interchange Upgrade
Dear Queensland Department of Transport and Main Roads,
I wish for all the traffic data used to plan the Sumners Road Interchange Upgrade to be released so the public can make sense of the plan and why the money was spent to upgrade this section of road.
Yours faithfully,
Ben Prince
Good afternoon Mr Prince
Thank you for your enquiry.
The Queensland Department of Transport and Main Roads (the department),
publishes a traffic census for the Queensland state-declared road network
showing annual average traffic counts and heavy vehicle counts at:
[1]Traffic census - QLDTraffic. (you can search using the term Sumners
Road).
Other information relating to the Sumners Road Interchange upgrade is
available at [2]Sumners Road Interchange Upgrade | Department of Transport
and Main Roads (tmr.qld.gov.au)
However, if there is additional information that you would like to
request, please contact us on 07 3066 7108 so that we can discuss what
information you are seeking.
If we are not able to provide the information administratively, you can
apply for access to documents held by the department under the Right to
Information Act 2009 (RTI Act).
Right to Information
If you would like to make an application, you can apply and pay online at
[3]https://www.smartservice.qld.gov.au/serv...
The application fee is $51.70
Whilst the RTI Act is intended to provide a right of access to information
held by government, this right of access is subject to the grounds for
refusal which include public interest considerations. What this means is
that whilst the department meets the object of the RTI Act and provides
access to information/documents wherever possible, it does not guarantee
access to all or any parts of the relevant documents. In situations where
the proposed release of the requested documents would be considered to be
of concern to another person or entity, consultation with that person
would be required under the RTI Act.
Where an application will take more than five hours to finalise,
processing charges are applicable at the current rate of $8.00 per 15
minutes. Please note that the department will correspond with you with an
estimate of any applicable charges before finalising your application.
Further general information about Right to Information is available on the
department's website
[4]http://www.tmr.qld.gov.au/About-us/Right... or on the
Queensland government website
[5]http://www.qld.gov.au/about/rights-accou....
Please do not hesitate to contact us on 07 3066 7108 if you have any
questions.
Kind regards
Senior Advisor | RTI, Privacy and Complaints Management
Governance Branch | Corporate Division | Department of Transport and Main
Roads
____________________________________________________________________
Floor 8 | 61 Mary Street | Brisbane Qld 4000
GPO Box 1549 | Brisbane Qld 4001
(07) 3066 7108
[6][Queensland Department of Transport and Main Roads request email]
[7]www.tmr.qld.gov.au
-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Prince <[FOI #7085 email]>
Sent: Tuesday, 16 February 2021 8:24 PM
To: contactRTI <[Queensland Department of Transport and Main Roads request email]>
Subject: Right to Information request - All traffic analysis that was used
to create the plans for the Sumners Road Interchange Upgrade
Dear Queensland Department of Transport and Main Roads,
I wish for all the traffic data used to plan the Sumners Road Interchange
Upgrade to be released so the public can make sense of the plan and why
the money was spent to upgrade this section of road.
Yours faithfully,
Ben Prince
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Dear contact RTI,
The first two paragraphs don't have hyperlinks attached so i am unsure where they are. Could you please properly link to them so i can find them.
Also are you saying that:
1. you didn't do any independent and/or updated traffic analysis of the specific section of road/s you were planning to spend $65 million on?
2. You just went off previous annual traffic census data?
Yours sincerely,
Ben Prince
Good afternoon Mr Prince
The links to the publicly available information are as below:
- [1]Traffic census – QLDTraffic -
https://www.data.qld.gov.au/dataset/traf...
- [2]Sumners Road Interchange Upgrade | Department of
Transport and Main Roads (tmr.qld.gov.au) -
https://www.tmr.qld.gov.au/projects/sumn....
If there is additional information that you would like to request, please
contact us on 07 3066 7108 so that we can discuss the information you are
seeking and identify the relevant information/documents. You can apply for
access to documents held by the department under the Right to Information
Act 2009 (RTI Act). Details of how to apply under the RTI Act were
provided in response to your initial email.
Please do not hesitate to contact us on 07 3066 7108 if you have any
questions.
Kind regards
Senior Advisor | RTI, Privacy and Complaints Management
Governance Branch | Corporate Division | Department of Transport and Main
Roads
____________________________________________________________________
Floor 8 | 61 Mary Street | Brisbane Qld 4000
GPO Box 1549 | Brisbane Qld 4001
(07) 3066 7108
[3][Queensland Department of Transport and Main Roads request email]
[4]www.tmr.qld.gov.au
-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Prince <[FOI #7085 email]>
Sent: Monday, 1 March 2021 8:36 PM
To: contactRTI <[Queensland Department of Transport and Main Roads request email]>
Subject: RE: Right to Information request - All traffic analysis that was
used to create the plans for the Sumners Road Interchange Upgrade
Dear contact RTI,
The first two paragraphs don't have hyperlinks attached so i am unsure
where they are. Could you please properly link to them so i can find them.
Also are you saying that:
1. you didn't do any independent and/or updated traffic analysis of the
specific section of road/s you were planning to spend $65 million on?
2. You just went off previous annual traffic census data?
Yours sincerely,
Ben Prince
-----Original Message-----
Good afternoon Mr Prince
Thank you for your enquiry.
The Queensland Department of Transport and Main Roads (the department),
publishes a traffic census for the Queensland state-declared road network
showing annual average traffic counts and heavy vehicle counts at:
[1]Traffic census - QLDTraffic. (you can search using the term Sumners
Road).
Other information relating to the Sumners Road Interchange upgrade is
available at [2]Sumners Road Interchange Upgrade | Department of
Transport and Main Roads (tmr.qld.gov.au)
However, if there is additional information that you would like to
request, please contact us on 07 3066 7108 so that we can discuss what
information you are seeking.
If we are not able to provide the information administratively, you can
apply for access to documents held by the department under the Right to
Information Act 2009 (RTI Act).
Right to Information
If you would like to make an application, you can apply and pay online at
[3][5]https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www....
The application fee is $51.70
Whilst the RTI Act is intended to provide a right of access to information
held by government, this right of access is subject to the grounds for
refusal which include public interest considerations. What this means is
that whilst the department meets the object of the RTI Act and provides
access to information/documents wherever possible, it does not guarantee
access to all or any parts of the relevant documents. In situations where
the proposed release of the requested documents would be considered to be
of concern to another person or entity, consultation with that person
would be required under the RTI Act.
Where an application will take more than five hours to finalise,
processing charges are applicable at the current rate of $8.00 per 15
minutes. Please note that the department will correspond with you with an
estimate of any applicable charges before finalising your application.
Further general information about Right to Information is available on
the department's website
[4][6]http://www.tmr.qld.gov.au/About-us/Right... or on
the Queensland government website
[5][7]https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.q...
.
Please do not hesitate to contact us on 07 3066 7108 if you have any
questions.
Kind regards
Senior Advisor | RTI, Privacy and Complaints Management Governance
Branch | Corporate Division | Department of Transport and Main Roads
____________________________________________________________________
Floor 8 | 61 Mary Street | Brisbane Qld 4000 GPO Box 1549 | Brisbane Qld
4001
(07) 3066 7108
[6][Queensland Department of Transport and Main Roads request email]
[7][8]http://www.tmr.qld.gov.au
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and is not affected by computer viruses, defects or interference by
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your computer system).
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