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Speaker 1: Sorry, cyclists, roads for cars and trucks are getting the

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Speaker 1: lines here of transport money through to twenty twenty seven.

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Speaker 1: By the way, we tried to get labor on about

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Speaker 1: this to see whether they were zen kombaya with the government,

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Speaker 1: but no response from them. However, thirty three billion dollars

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Speaker 1: announced yesterday over three years Auckland a big winner. Seven

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Speaker 1: billion for state highway improvements, five point five billion for

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Speaker 1: pothole prevention, us just prevention, six point four million on

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Speaker 1: new public transport, walking, cycling. The funding has been harved.

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Speaker 1: Alan McDonald is the Employees and Manufacturers Association head of

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Speaker 1: Advocacy and strategy. Allen, good morning, morning Roll. I mean

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Speaker 1: you'll obviously be pleased about the spending on some of

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Speaker 1: these roads, and particularly some of these routes the alternative

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Speaker 1: to the Brindwans. How important is.

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Speaker 2: That, Oh, that's very important for unlocking the potential. It's

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Speaker 2: a Northland but also just getting some of those exports

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Speaker 2: to and from not just Auckland but through to Tower

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Speaker 2: as well. And as we're seeing with the terrible weather

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Speaker 2: events in the recent couple of years, that road there's

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Speaker 2: just such a vital link and it's basically at times

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Speaker 2: falling down literally?

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Speaker 1: Can you are you confident that we can get the

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Speaker 1: work done for the price that is being claimed, just

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Speaker 1: given cost blowouts on writing projects. I mean, do you

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Speaker 1: have faith when you see plans like this?

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Speaker 2: I'd like to have faith that they'd get underway the

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Speaker 2: costs themselves. Like any major project anywhere around the world,

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Speaker 2: is subject to cost pressures, so it's not something that's

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Speaker 2: unique to New Zealand. You tend to see these things

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Speaker 2: as well. That's roughly what it costs today, but by

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Speaker 2: the time we get it done, what's it going to cost? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: The National Land Transport Program is what they've announced. As

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Speaker 1: we mentioned, it's thirty three billion and it just lists

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Speaker 1: the priorities in terms of, you know, where they want

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Speaker 1: to start and get the shovel in the ground, that

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Speaker 1: kind of thing. Are you disappointed that there's not more

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Speaker 1: agreement between political parties on what needs funding.

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Speaker 2: I think we're getting to that point where everybody agrees

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Speaker 2: that we need some kind of not a consensus because

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Speaker 2: you're never going to get that, but some kind of

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Speaker 2: broad agreement on what the main priorities should be. And

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Speaker 2: I think it's critical really if we're going to extract

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Speaker 2: the value that we want from these projects and help

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Speaker 2: keep some of the cost down. That we do get

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Speaker 2: some kind of broad framework agreed and we stick to

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Speaker 2: it because it's the constant or the consistent, Oh we're

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Speaker 2: going to do this, but we're coming and we're not

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Speaker 2: going to do that. And it's that kind of flip

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Speaker 2: flopping and direction or even wiping out projects that costs

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Speaker 2: the country more money and intrustrates people that want to

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Speaker 2: use these things to know.

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Speaker 1: Allen, thank you for that. Alan McDonald's who's the I

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Speaker 1: should say the Employees and Manufacturers Association.

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