Government Policy Statement on land transport 2021 Te Tauākī Kaupapa Here a te Kāwanatanga mō ngā waka whenua 2021

A technical amendment has been made to the Government Policy Statement (GPS) on Land Transport 2021. This is a non-significant amendment that enables Waka Kotahi New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA) to utilise all of the loan facilities made available to it.

1) The following sentence is appended to paragraph 108.

For the avoidance of doubt, the allowable variation is the sum of all borrowing made available to Waka Kotahi by the Minister of Transport and the Minister of Finance, reduced over time as that borrowing is expended.

2) Replace the ‘Maximum Expenditure’ value for years 2021/22, 2022/23, 2023/24 in Table 2 on page 31 with the following:

A technical amendment has been made to the Government Policy Statement on Land Transport 2021/22-2030/31 to make clear the Crown contribution of $834.4m to the NLTF to fund the rail network.

This is a non-significant amendment to the Rail Network activity class funding ranges and description which provides clarity and enables Waka Kotahi to implement the funding of rail activities under the Rail Network Investment Programme (RNIP).

More information about the RNIP can be found here  (external link)

We released the draft Government Policy Statement on Land Transport 2021/22–2030/31 (draft GPS 2021) for public engagement.

Consultation: Draft Government Policy Statement on Land Transport

Beehive release: Record transport investment in Draft GPS 2021(external link)

We are proactively releasing ten documents that were key to the formulation of GPS 2021, including the Cabinet Papers seeking approval to publish the draft GPS for engagement and then the final GPS.

We are releasing these documents to support transparency by helping the public understand the choices taken for GPS 2021, and the principles that determine why public money is being directed towards certain priorities.

All information provided in this release used best available insights and information at the time. As forecast revenue, spend, and available information changes over time, the information in the briefings, including numbers, may have changed since the time of writing.

Some parts of these papers have been redacted as they are not appropriate to release and, if requested, would be withheld under the Official Information Act 1982 (the Act). Where information has been withheld, no public interest has been identified that would outweigh the reasons for withholding it.

GPS 2021 builds on and consolidates the priorities of GPS 2018. The strategic priorities for GPS 2021 are safety, better travel options, improving freight connections and climate change.

Activity classes have been set to allow Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency and local government to invest in these priorities.

No changes are proposed or forecast for petrol excise duty and road user charges in GPS 2021.

The Transitions Guide explains what the differences between GPS 2018 and GPS 2021.

Beehive release: Record transport investment to help economic recovery and save lives(external link)

We held 14 regional workshops with local government and other stakeholders in March–April 2019 to understand the key issues for stakeholders before we began providing advice to ministers on GPS 2021.

We provided a summary of the matters arising from those workshops to ministers in May 2019.