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Speaker 1: I like to take the time to applaud the outbreak

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Speaker 1: of common sense exhibited by Chris Bishop, the new Minister

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Speaker 1: of Transport. He has decided to revisit some of the

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Speaker 1: blanket speed limits imposed by his government in the wake

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Speaker 1: of concerns by locals. Can I just say it's his

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Speaker 1: government that does the blanket speed limits. They are the

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Speaker 1: ones who said fifty one hundred or one ten over

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Speaker 1: all roads, no matter the condition of the roads or

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Speaker 1: their usage, and they use the blanket speed limit phrase

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Speaker 1: as a vote catcher at the election. But the old

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Speaker 1: government actually left most speed limits in the hands of

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Speaker 1: local authorities, their roads, their rules. The Labor government issued

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Speaker 1: a schedule of over three hundred sections of road on

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Speaker 1: the state highway network, which are the only roads they control.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, there were those, but that central was put

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Speaker 1: in place over dangerous roads, mainly around rural schools who

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Speaker 1: are concerned at motors screaming past at pickup time at

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Speaker 1: one hundred k Now, Chris Bishop has come out and

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Speaker 1: indicated he's going to listen to local concerns, which is

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Speaker 1: a good thing because until you use a road, you

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Speaker 1: don't know what an appropriate limit is. There's no way

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Speaker 1: a central government bureaucrat locked up and Wellington has any

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Speaker 1: idea of the local reality. Ask the people about how

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Speaker 1: they feel about the roads. And that's what Chris is doing,

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Speaker 1: which is smart and that's a good thing. Congratulations Chris.

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