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Speaker 1: Sid Bey, So, Wellington City Council's a bit under fire

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Speaker 1: right now. They have offered eight and a half thousand

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Speaker 1: dollars a prize money for anyone who can come up

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Speaker 1: with a better cycle way. The competition brief says council

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Speaker 1: was focused on low cost temporary cycle ways which had

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Speaker 1: few benefits, and now they want the help from the

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Speaker 1: public to come up with an idea for a longer

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Speaker 1: lasting piece of infrastructure. The questions are being asked as

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Speaker 1: to why the council just didn't do the cycle ways

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Speaker 1: properly in the first place, and Wellington City Councilor Diane

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Speaker 1: Calvert joins me, now, hell, are Dianasis bonkers?

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Speaker 2: Hi? Well, I think it is one of the many

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Speaker 2: bonkers ideas that Wellington City Council has and never really

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Speaker 2: makes a difference to the city or for its people.

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Speaker 1: Really, it feels like it's the council saying we can't

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Speaker 1: design a cycleway because we're useless. Can you do it

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Speaker 1: for us? And what you get from that is you're useless?

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Speaker 2: Well, I think the thing is that the other cycle

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Speaker 2: ways were there to and to be honest, they've met

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Speaker 2: with a lot of dissatisfaction from but they were there

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Speaker 2: in a transitional way to say, well, maybe we haven't

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Speaker 2: got these rights. At least they're easy to move. Now

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Speaker 2: we go and put more permanent stuff in. I mean,

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Speaker 2: people are saying, you haven't got the cycle ways right now,

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Speaker 2: so making them even more permanent is just a further

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Speaker 2: recipe for disaster.

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Speaker 1: Yes, exactly. Now. Look, I am a cyclist, and I

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Speaker 1: like myself a good cycle way, but I hate a

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Speaker 1: bad cycle way, And sometimes I give a cycle a

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Speaker 1: way that no cyclist wants to use, which is why

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Speaker 1: we then ride on the road, you know. So why

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Speaker 1: is it that we can't do a good cycle way

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Speaker 1: every time?

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Speaker 2: Because what happens is the city council doesn't engage properly

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Speaker 2: with everyone that gets either users or is impacted by it.

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Speaker 2: And I took to look. My husband's a cyclist, and

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Speaker 2: I talk to many other cyclists, and even they are

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Speaker 2: scratching their heads in some of the places that our

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Speaker 2: council seems to want to put cycle ways.

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Speaker 1: The cycleways I really hate are the cycle ways that

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Speaker 1: actually have you know, curbs on either side, and you're

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Speaker 1: trapped in there and if you vary very out, your

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Speaker 1: head over heels and into the road and then you

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Speaker 1: run over by a truck. They're terrible things.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, that's right. So we need to do that.

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Speaker 2: We're going to do them. We need to do them well.

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Speaker 2: And in the summers we just can't put them in.

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Speaker 1: Where's the eight and a half thousand dollars coming from?

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Speaker 2: Well we it's coming from a grant for money from

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Speaker 2: the Bloomberg Cycling.

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Speaker 1: Oh so this is not players money I've got. This

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Speaker 1: is right, This idea heres upset you so much? You

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Speaker 1: are Hecker, this is.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so that looks I think the thing is that

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Speaker 2: you know, this is this is an large overseas organization,

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Speaker 2: you know, and good on them. But the thing is

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Speaker 2: what's happening is they've opened the checkbook and we just

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Speaker 2: rush and grab whatever money is there. Whether it's actually

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Speaker 2: going to do it make a difference or not.

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Speaker 1: Well, I can tell you I've got to take some rees. Diane,

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Speaker 1: just a few moments ago that says just get rid

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Speaker 1: of them. There do I win.

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Speaker 2: Exactly, And many people are saying that, especially around Wellington.

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Speaker 1: Good stuff. Dian Calvert is our Wellington City Council. For

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