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Speaker 1: Morning, Council Boss, Hamish Reek morning. You're not at Eddington.

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Speaker 1: I'm a burden, but you're still looking good. You've got

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Speaker 1: the fascinator in the can.

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Speaker 2: My fascinator is not in the right okay, just.

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Speaker 1: The one, the one that's missing. Yeah, yeah, I was

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Speaker 1: on the prize. It's going to be a big day there.

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Speaker 1: Looking forward to catching up with Mark and for his picks,

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Speaker 1: including the Dominion race, which, as I understand is ironically

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Speaker 1: the Trotting Cup isn't for Trotter's for something called pacers.

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Speaker 1: So I'm key to find out what the difference is

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Speaker 1: there with me.

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Speaker 2: I think, but in which it goes in which order,

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Speaker 2: but anyway will be able to answer.

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Speaker 1: The hovel is my default state, so maybe I would

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Speaker 1: fit in there too. Hey something I was keen to

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Speaker 1: talk to you about. It's been spotted in the local

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Speaker 1: preests over the past week. We've got this new parking

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Speaker 1: camera car rolling around town.

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Speaker 2: Yes, so we're trialing a car with a mounted camera

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Speaker 2: which will photograph car in the in the parks and

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Speaker 2: can read the number plate and assess once it gets

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Speaker 2: that information whether that car continues to be legally parked.

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Speaker 2: So a way of we're going to trial. The number

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Speaker 2: of councils around the country have already started using this

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Speaker 2: automatic sort of parking management systems. So we're going to

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Speaker 2: give it a guard and see.

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Speaker 1: What do you mean by automatic? Does it drive itself?

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Speaker 2: No right now, but the information that it takes a

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Speaker 2: photo and can assess itself whether or not the car

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Speaker 2: is legally or and as the car goes around, it

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Speaker 2: can check the time that it's, how long it's been there,

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Speaker 2: et cetera.

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Speaker 1: Sol oh okay, So it's not just scanning number plates,

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Speaker 1: but it's also looking at how you parked in the

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Speaker 1: space and exactly.

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Speaker 2: So it's doing essentially the same job as as as

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Speaker 2: the parking officer that walks around.

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Speaker 1: And in fact, the.

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Speaker 2: First part of the trial is to run both in tandem,

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Speaker 2: and the car won't be issuing any tickets because it's

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Speaker 2: just a trial, but we can compare the data with

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Speaker 2: what the parking officers see on the ground to see

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Speaker 2: just how accurate is and whether it's something you want.

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Speaker 1: So this trial runs for six months. The car is

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Speaker 1: not going to be issuing tickets in that time.

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Speaker 2: No, in the trials and two parts. So the first

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Speaker 2: part is to assess it threaturacy compared to the parking

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Speaker 2: offices that are doing that still doing the job. And

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Speaker 2: then the second part of the trial is the admint part.

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Speaker 2: Just how does it work in the back office? How

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Speaker 2: does it produce tickets if it was to be the

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Speaker 2: system to do so?

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Speaker 1: I guess one of the concerns on the surface Hamish

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Speaker 1: reac because this is going to cost people some jobs.

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Speaker 1: So are we going to see the end of the

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Speaker 1: meet wardens?

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Speaker 2: No, not the intention at all. The car still needs

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Speaker 2: to be driven and of course we've still got to

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Speaker 2: check the admin in the in the in the back office.

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Speaker 2: So certainly a potential change, but not not lost jobs.

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Speaker 1: Possibly adding jobs.

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Speaker 2: Well maybe we need to we need to get the

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Speaker 2: trial underway and just see how it looks. But there's

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Speaker 2: some good reasons to do the trial. In my head,

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Speaker 2: there's at.

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Speaker 1: Least what I was going to ask about that it

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Speaker 1: seems awfully trail blazing for a small place like Ashburton.

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't consider that we have that much of an

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Speaker 1: issue with parking. Why are we doing this?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? So two major benefits. One is we've all received

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Speaker 2: parking tickets in our life and we've all felt bad

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Speaker 2: about getting those Some people cross the line and have

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Speaker 2: a real go at our parking offices and it's ugly.

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Speaker 1: Angry really here in Ashburton. Here in ashburga oh Man.

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Speaker 2: And I worry about some of those exchanges, and we're

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Speaker 2: putting our staff in some position of risk. They can

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Speaker 2: be really nasty exchanges. All they're doing is their job

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Speaker 2: and if the person hadn't parked illegally, they wouldn't be

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Speaker 2: having the conversation yet somehow because they regret getting the ticket,

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Speaker 2: it's our parking office's fault.

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Speaker 1: So this is way to monitor from a distance.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so there's a safety issue. But the second thing

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Speaker 2: is there's also a whole lot of data that we

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Speaker 2: can get from the cars driving around around parking pass

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Speaker 2: So where are the stress points for the parking where

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Speaker 2: the whereas there is that hole?

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Speaker 1: It we wagon in the same space.

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Speaker 2: Again Yeah, yeah, well more more at an aggregate level

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Speaker 2: than just the one car. But yes, you know there

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Speaker 2: are the areas that are where there's yeah, there's issues

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Speaker 2: of congestion. Are the areas that are vacant? Are the

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Speaker 2: timing right now? If there's a lot of tickets in

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Speaker 2: one area, does that mean perhaps the parking time limit

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Speaker 2: isn't isn't quite right, whatever the issue is, But we

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Speaker 2: can find a whole lot of data that's much more

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Speaker 2: easily aggregated from an automatic system.

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Speaker 1: This is just for the CBD. Yeah, is it going

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Speaker 1: to be rolling through the lakes of the wet street

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Speaker 1: car park?

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Speaker 2: And yeah, we're going to do the trial and just

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Speaker 2: see how it works. And then there's but if you

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Speaker 2: think about a car, you can drive it to Methan,

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Speaker 2: you can drive it to Rakaia. You can. Yeah, but

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Speaker 2: we've got to find out about the system first. But

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Speaker 2: as I say, there are a number of other councils

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Speaker 2: already use this technology for all the same reasons that

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Speaker 2: we're looking at it.

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Speaker 1: But based on that too. One more final quick question,

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Speaker 1: but a concern that will this thing be slow? Will

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Speaker 1: hold traffic up and cause some congestion?

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Speaker 2: No, but it might force people following it to do

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Speaker 2: the speed limit in town? What are you looking at

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Speaker 2: me for thinking about your building here and it's ten

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Speaker 2: kilometers an hour outside you're building here?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that we narrow alleyway.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, certainly times when PEPs vehicles aren't doing exactly ten. Now,

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Speaker 2: I certainly know because we experienced it as well at

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Speaker 2: the Bearing square. They're not doing ten, just by an observation.

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Speaker 2: Certainly times when I think thirty gets stretched a bit

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Speaker 2: and eas street and night as well, so our vehicle

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Speaker 2: will be not exceeding the speed limit, but they won't

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Speaker 2: be crawling along and holding people up.

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Speaker 1: Look forward to keeping tabs on this trial. Hamus react