1 00:00:00,400 --> 00:00:01,920 Speaker 1: Yeah. So, as I told you before, the Greens have 2 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:04,680 Speaker 1: been busted asking to use the private car parks of 3 00:00:04,680 --> 00:00:08,280 Speaker 1: some Wellington retailers for a party in Wellington, which is 4 00:00:08,280 --> 00:00:10,840 Speaker 1: so hypocritical because they were the ones who took the 5 00:00:10,840 --> 00:00:12,280 Speaker 1: car parking away so they could build one of their 6 00:00:12,280 --> 00:00:15,800 Speaker 1: favorite little cycle ways in the area. Right. Irmila Barner 7 00:00:16,079 --> 00:00:18,919 Speaker 1: is the chairwoman of the Independent Business and Residential Group. 8 00:00:18,960 --> 00:00:22,080 Speaker 1: And for the record, not the Greengrocer, but. 9 00:00:22,120 --> 00:00:24,919 Speaker 2: The what Irmina, the general Grocer, the. 10 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:27,440 Speaker 1: General Grosser, because the green grocer is on side with 11 00:00:27,440 --> 00:00:28,320 Speaker 1: the Greens? Am I right? 12 00:00:28,840 --> 00:00:29,320 Speaker 2: Mm hmmm? 13 00:00:29,480 --> 00:00:31,920 Speaker 1: And not you though, no, why not? 14 00:00:33,440 --> 00:00:37,320 Speaker 2: I guess I have a Shakespearean relationship with these cycle lanes. 15 00:00:38,120 --> 00:00:39,680 Speaker 1: Why do you call it Shakespearean? 16 00:00:40,479 --> 00:00:44,559 Speaker 2: Well? How much do I love thee I mean, you know, 17 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:48,160 Speaker 2: we've got a spectrum out here which is pretty dire. 18 00:00:48,520 --> 00:00:53,000 Speaker 2: Businesses are down sixty eighty one hundred percent. They're either moving, closing, 19 00:00:53,080 --> 00:00:56,560 Speaker 2: or heading into liquidation. And that's nothing to do with recession. 20 00:00:56,680 --> 00:01:00,600 Speaker 2: It's the car park remover. And you sort of like, hello. 21 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:04,080 Speaker 1: How do you know though, because I mean, like I 22 00:01:04,480 --> 00:01:06,480 Speaker 1: it's difficult for everybody, right, So how do you know 23 00:01:06,560 --> 00:01:08,600 Speaker 1: that it's the cycle way doing it well. 24 00:01:08,640 --> 00:01:11,800 Speaker 2: In new Town, we were ahead of the pack. Went 25 00:01:11,880 --> 00:01:15,840 Speaker 2: in two years ago and businesses were already reporting that 26 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:20,479 Speaker 2: dire situation. The Newtown's been that the cycle aid's been planted, 27 00:01:20,720 --> 00:01:24,760 Speaker 2: the parks have been removed. It's a ghost town. Like 28 00:01:24,959 --> 00:01:27,240 Speaker 2: you know, the uber drivers don't like getting into hospital 29 00:01:27,319 --> 00:01:29,360 Speaker 2: because there's fucking traffic to try and get here. So 30 00:01:29,440 --> 00:01:32,520 Speaker 2: the meals that are going out to the poor residences 31 00:01:32,560 --> 00:01:36,240 Speaker 2: that want to eat are cold. What did you think that? 32 00:01:36,440 --> 00:01:38,720 Speaker 1: Yeah? What did you think when you heard that Tamitha 33 00:01:38,800 --> 00:01:41,640 Speaker 1: Paul and Julian Jeni's staff has been going around asking 34 00:01:41,640 --> 00:01:43,720 Speaker 1: to use private car parks have affected businesses? 35 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:48,160 Speaker 2: What did I think? Well, you know, what do they 36 00:01:48,200 --> 00:01:51,760 Speaker 2: say about hypocrisy? There's no forgiveness for that sort of evil? 37 00:01:51,880 --> 00:01:54,880 Speaker 1: Is there really quite right? Do you know anything about 38 00:01:54,920 --> 00:01:57,880 Speaker 1: this situation? Because I had heard that they had asked 39 00:01:57,920 --> 00:02:00,600 Speaker 1: this office had asked for the council to re designated 40 00:02:00,600 --> 00:02:02,720 Speaker 1: a couple of car parks around the corner from their office, 41 00:02:02,880 --> 00:02:05,040 Speaker 1: to make them shorter terms so that their visitors could 42 00:02:05,120 --> 00:02:06,320 Speaker 1: use them. Did you hear about that? 43 00:02:07,440 --> 00:02:10,520 Speaker 2: Well, rumor has it that during a break at the 44 00:02:10,600 --> 00:02:15,079 Speaker 2: Regulatory Process meeting, on the eighteenth of April, Jordie Rodgers 45 00:02:15,240 --> 00:02:19,480 Speaker 2: was speaking to the senior Wellington City Council offices with 46 00:02:19,680 --> 00:02:24,280 Speaker 2: the current Green Deputy Mayor, Lourie Boone about parking for 47 00:02:24,360 --> 00:02:27,520 Speaker 2: the Green MPs on King Street and King Streets, the 48 00:02:27,639 --> 00:02:32,560 Speaker 2: side street of Adelaide Road. So we're all sitting here 49 00:02:32,600 --> 00:02:37,360 Speaker 2: in Newtown as residents. There's business owners outpatients, hospital workers 50 00:02:37,400 --> 00:02:40,800 Speaker 2: thinking well, hang on, we can't get to work because 51 00:02:40,840 --> 00:02:43,520 Speaker 2: of you. We can't get to the hospital because of you. 52 00:02:43,840 --> 00:02:46,040 Speaker 2: We can't get to the businesses we like when we 53 00:02:46,080 --> 00:02:49,800 Speaker 2: want to because of you. So this whole thing is 54 00:02:50,240 --> 00:02:54,800 Speaker 2: hypocritical and underscored with a golden pen. Ridiculous. 55 00:02:55,080 --> 00:02:56,200 Speaker 1: Was that the eighteenth of April? 56 00:02:56,320 --> 00:02:59,520 Speaker 2: Was it? Apparently? So it's the rumor. So I've chased 57 00:02:59,520 --> 00:03:02,960 Speaker 2: it up with one of the senior counselors, so hopefully 58 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:04,280 Speaker 2: we'll get a response shortly. 59 00:03:04,720 --> 00:03:06,840 Speaker 1: Irmla, thank you very much and best of luck fighting 60 00:03:06,880 --> 00:03:09,760 Speaker 1: this absolutely brain dead situation. That's Irmla Barner, the chairwoman 61 00:03:09,800 --> 00:03:12,120 Speaker 1: of the Independent Business and Residential Group. I'll just remind you. 62 00:03:12,639 --> 00:03:16,960 Speaker 1: So the conversation happens between Jordie and Laurie on the 63 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:19,880 Speaker 1: eighteenth of April at the regulatory meeting. But what did 64 00:03:19,880 --> 00:03:22,000 Speaker 1: the Green say to me in the statement. There have 65 00:03:22,080 --> 00:03:24,480 Speaker 1: been no formal discussions with the Council in regards to 66 00:03:24,560 --> 00:03:27,560 Speaker 1: using parking on King Street. No formal discussions, but the 67 00:03:27,600 --> 00:03:28,880 Speaker 1: informal ones they work though. 68 00:03:28,880 --> 00:03:32,920 Speaker 2: Ay for more from Heather Duplessy Allen Drive. Listen live 69 00:03:33,040 --> 00:03:33,720 Speaker 2: to news talks. 70 00:03:33,720 --> 00:03:36,920 Speaker 1: It'd be from four pm weekdays, or follow the podcast 71 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:38,040 Speaker 1: on iHeartRadio.