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Speaker 1: Seem to have the final call on Wellington's tunnel drama.

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Speaker 1: Second one we got here, we got a second mount

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Speaker 1: Vic and we've got a terrace tunnel. So we've got

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Speaker 1: a couple of tunnels. Next stop the investment case, which

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Speaker 1: will be longer than a tunnel that'll be presented to

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Speaker 1: the NZTA by midnext year. Business Central CEO Simon archisas

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Speaker 1: with us, Simon morning.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, make how very well?

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Speaker 1: Indeed, thank you a couple of tunnels that suit you absolutely.

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Speaker 2: It's just good to have a decision made. And part

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Speaker 2: of me looks at it and thinks, I know it's

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Speaker 2: a big job. It's one point two k worth of

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Speaker 2: with a road to build, and let's get on with it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, can we get on with it? Are we capable

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Speaker 1: of getting on with it?

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Speaker 2: I think we're capable if we leave it with the

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Speaker 2: Minister and ZTA. I think City Council's proven it's got

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Speaker 2: other things to focus on at the moment, So yep,

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Speaker 2: we'll get it done. We've got to get it done, mate.

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Speaker 1: How future proofed are these two options or these two tunnels?

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Speaker 2: Look, I think one of the things that solves a

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Speaker 2: lot of problems of today with congestion. But the reality

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Speaker 2: is that we're going to need those tunnels in time,

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Speaker 2: and of course you build for the future. Well, you know,

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Speaker 2: the other interesting thing about it for me is that

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Speaker 2: it helps Speakle even for the hut because if you

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Speaker 2: think about that now wronger through to the airport ten

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Speaker 2: minutes after, it's just the whole flow of the city improves.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they sad yesterday one of the models, and who

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Speaker 1: believes models, but one of the models suggested that if

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Speaker 1: they didn't do it, that no wrong, a link to

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Speaker 1: the airport would increase traffic or increase time by fifty percent.

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Speaker 1: Would you broadly agree with that?

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Speaker 2: I would broadly agree with it. And I'll tell you

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Speaker 2: the other interesting thing is that development that's going on

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Speaker 2: Latle Bay with Roomen to be going on to peditecks,

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Speaker 2: and I mean, if that goes ahead, you could have hotels,

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Speaker 2: you get a retail. That whole part of the city

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Speaker 2: might be much much more busy than it is right

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Speaker 2: now in years to come. And this development, particularly the

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Speaker 2: roads would be excellent for.

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Speaker 1: That good stuff. Simon, go well with it, and we'll

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Speaker 1: talk again when it's built, which will be over many,

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Speaker 1: many many years. Simon arcus I mean, am I wrong?

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