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Speaker 1: The clerk, and it's looking more likely the fast tracked

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Speaker 1: roads of national significance are going to be told procurement

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Speaker 1: and construction will start in the next three years, but

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Speaker 1: exact time frames and costs are still not yet known.

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Speaker 1: So what does it mean for our freight and transport companies?

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Speaker 1: Joining me now? Is Transporting New Zealand Interim Chief Executive

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Speaker 1: Dom Calasi, Dom, Welcome to the show. What do you

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Speaker 1: make of this? The fact that, I mean, we always

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Speaker 1: knew that there was going to be tolls, right? Does

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Speaker 1: this surprise you.

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Speaker 2: Morning, Ryan? Well, scarcely. Absolutely, it doesn't surprise us. It's

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Speaker 2: been signaled for a long time.

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Speaker 1: And how do you feel about it? You'd rather the

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Speaker 1: roads would get built, presumably?

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, Look the efficient movement afraid it's essential, and as

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Speaker 2: is connecting communities, which allows people to connect. And we

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Speaker 2: are in a bit of a hole at the moment.

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Speaker 2: You know, the AA's reckons. The cost of congestion and

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Speaker 2: ortment alone is over a billion dollars and our current

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Speaker 2: routing system simply can't cope and we need to do

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Speaker 2: something about it sooner rather than later. And there's clear

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Speaker 2: evidence that Tolan can help.

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Speaker 1: There there's a whole list of expressways and motorways, and

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Speaker 1: we won't go through them all, but Belfast to Pegasus

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Speaker 1: for example, the hawks By Expressway, you've got Walkworth to Wellsford.

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Speaker 1: Do you guys have a priority list?

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Speaker 2: We think the list that has been provided is actually

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Speaker 2: pretty good. You know, there's always going to be more

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Speaker 2: than what can be done at any good time, but

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Speaker 2: we think that list is pretty good.

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Speaker 1: Do you have a preference in terms of order? Because

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Speaker 1: from what I have read, from what the minister's statement,

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Speaker 1: it sounds like they're going to try and do them

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Speaker 1: all at once.

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Speaker 2: Oh right, sorry, now I think doing them in parallel

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Speaker 2: is the way to do it.

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Speaker 1: Why is that?

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Speaker 2: Because give them all the parts, construction and consenting. It's

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Speaker 2: all a complex approach, right, and if you only did

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Speaker 2: one at a time, right, then it's going to actually

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Speaker 2: take much longer to deliver them all than doing them

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Speaker 2: in parallel.

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Speaker 1: How much do you think Let's assume let's look into

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Speaker 1: the future and think of a beautiful world where all

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Speaker 1: of these projects have been completed. How much more efficient

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Speaker 1: would we be would you be?

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Speaker 2: Oh not sorry, I haven't done the math on it,

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Speaker 2: but it would be significant. I mean just off the

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Speaker 2: top of my head, right, in a lot of those areas,

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Speaker 2: there will be not just hours, but tens of hours

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Speaker 2: every year saved for truckers. Right. And if you talk

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Speaker 2: a rough number of say two hundred to two hundred

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Speaker 2: and fifty dollars an hour, that's what truck and cough, right,

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Speaker 2: then you're talking about millions of dollars.

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Speaker 1: Dom, Thanks very much for your time that storm. Calasi

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