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Speaker 1: Another chapter on the East scooter battle. Beam is being

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Speaker 1: booted out of Auckland. Wellington are investigating. This is after

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Speaker 1: Australian media reports that she does the company snuck more

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Speaker 1: scooters in to various cities than their license allowed. Auckland

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Speaker 1: Council's Manager of Licensing and Environmental Health, meourburn Chetty, is

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Speaker 1: with us on this Merburne morning to you.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Mike.

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Speaker 1: If it hadn't been for the Australian media, would you

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Speaker 1: ever have known?

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Speaker 2: Yes, Mike, we got. There was a blower complaint early

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Speaker 2: in August, Mike, and we did. We started some investigations

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Speaker 2: immediately and the a blow complaint included copies of Beam's

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Speaker 2: internal comms which demonstrated the clear intent to provide misleading

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Speaker 2: information to counsel. So they're crocs, well it was the

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Speaker 2: information provided was misleading and inaccurate Mike, right.

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Speaker 1: So that's against the relationship you have with them. They're

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Speaker 1: supposed to give you open, honest, detailed data that isn't

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Speaker 1: made up.

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Speaker 2: Yes, we've got our license. We should be with a

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Speaker 2: license and our other praactice as well, with range of conditions,

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Speaker 2: and one of those conditions is adhering to the east

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Speaker 2: gutter caps in Auckland. There's different areas of the city

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Speaker 2: in order to protect public safety and reduce nuisance, and

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Speaker 2: all our perators are supposed to comply with those caps

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Speaker 2: and they've deliberately exceeded those caps and did not provide

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Speaker 2: that information to counsel.

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Speaker 1: They've said sorry. Have they said sorry because they mean

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Speaker 1: it or because they've been caught?

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Speaker 2: Oh, I think that's for Beamed to respond, Mike. They've apologized,

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Speaker 2: but from the seriousness of the issues we found, there's

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Speaker 2: no way that we can continue with the relationship with

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Speaker 2: Beam and we are we will be referring the matter

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Speaker 2: to the police for investigations.

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Speaker 1: Well do you know if Wellington are going to find

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Speaker 1: the same thing, or anywhere in Australia is going to

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Speaker 1: find the same thing, or that's out of your wheelhouse,

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Speaker 1: it's out.

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Speaker 2: Of our real last we are we have been in

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Speaker 2: contact with some of these councils, might be at different

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Speaker 2: stages of the investigation, so am aware of their decision

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Speaker 2: making process that Auckland.

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Speaker 1: As a city in the east scooter Department of somebody

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Speaker 1: else going to step in and fill the gap or.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I mean definitely the users of East scooters

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Speaker 2: in Auckland will be disappointed by the news. We're currently

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Speaker 2: exploring options might to fill the gap. We are reviewing

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Speaker 2: new license applications. We will try to give that process

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Speaker 2: completed as soon as possible so that we have the

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Speaker 2: full complement of EA scooters back in Aucklands.

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Speaker 1: What's the vibe on the scooters in general, because there's

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Speaker 1: really a fascinating article the other day about all the

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Speaker 1: places around the world that have done all sorts of

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Speaker 1: different things around rules and regulations in totality, are they

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Speaker 1: worth the hassle?

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Speaker 2: Ah, that's a really interesting question. In terms of Auckland,

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Speaker 2: the trips per day and the usage is pretty I

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Speaker 2: it's it's significantly. It's significant, especially in the mornings and evenings,

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Speaker 2: the last mile and first mile. So it has proved

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Speaker 2: contributing to to the Auckland transport network in terms of

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Speaker 2: the scale and extent. That's something that probably something bigger

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Speaker 2: assessment needs to be done.

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Speaker 1: Mike, right, I read this morning and this is my

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Speaker 1: apologies for not having better There's a three wheel operator

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Speaker 1: who can run the thing remotely and park it. Do

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Speaker 1: you know about them?

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Speaker 2: Yes?

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Speaker 1: I know.

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Speaker 2: That's that's an operator that we've just issued a license

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Speaker 2: for to operate in some of the suburbs in Auckland.

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Speaker 2: But in terms of the remote remote function, that's been

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Speaker 2: declared not compliant by NZTA.

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Speaker 1: Right, So that would you be happy with them if

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Speaker 1: it wasn't for the n ZTA because that remote things

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Speaker 1: seem to work. In other words, you get them off

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Speaker 1: the footpath, stop blocking places and they can actually park

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Speaker 1: them up. That seems a good thing to me.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, in theory it seems good. But whether the

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Speaker 2: pedestrians and basireas it may be, it may be you know,

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Speaker 2: a problematic, It might be running trying to us something

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Speaker 2: that's really you know, recently been introduced. So we were

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Speaker 2: still going to have a look at it, and part

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Speaker 2: of it is uh, you know, getting out there in

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Speaker 2: the suburbs to have a look. But in the TA

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Speaker 2: I declared that that function is not compliant, so we've

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Speaker 2: had to ask our provider to turn that function off.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Mervin, appreciate your insight very much, Moburn Chittie. I

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Speaker 1: enjoyed that way more than I was anticipating as I

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Speaker 1: as I started that interview on bloody excuse anyway, how

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Speaker 1: about be may out of Singapore, straight to the police.

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