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Speaker 1: Now the price of your car registration is going to

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Speaker 1: go up by fifty bucks. Fuel taxes will rise by

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Speaker 1: twelve cents a liter in twenty twenty seven and then

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Speaker 1: twenty two cents in twenty twenty nine, and new roads

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Speaker 1: of National significance will probably be told the government has

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Speaker 1: confirmed the final Policy Statement on land transport for the

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Speaker 1: next ten years. The price rises will help pay for

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Speaker 1: new roads of National significance and the pothole Prevention Fund.

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Speaker 1: And Dylan Thompson is the AA's road safety spokesperson who's

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Speaker 1: with us now, Hey.

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Speaker 2: Dylan, evening, Heather.

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Speaker 1: Not a lot of this is new, if anything at all,

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Speaker 1: But are you happy it's locked in?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you're right. We've known this was coming. But the

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Speaker 2: two things that really stand out for the AA and

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Speaker 2: that we're happy about over the next three years, this

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Speaker 2: GPS is going to allow more money to be spent

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Speaker 2: on road maintenance than we've seen before, significantly more, and

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Speaker 2: also a really strong focus around police enforcement out on

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Speaker 2: the roads, looking to increase that, particularly around alcohol. And

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Speaker 2: we need both of those things. Better maintenance of our

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Speaker 2: roads and better enforcement, particularly around in pair driving, to

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Speaker 2: make to make travel for all new Zealanders, safer, better,

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Speaker 2: more reliable. So we're really pleased to see those.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, So Samon Brown's coppying a bit of heat for

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Speaker 1: that actually today because that pothole money is being taken

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Speaker 1: out of the cycling the cycling budget. Is that fair

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Speaker 1: for him to do that?

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Speaker 2: There is transport all is for so many debates around

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Speaker 2: you know, there's a limited pot of money and there's

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Speaker 2: lots of projects. So from the AA's perspective, you know,

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Speaker 2: we need to be having investment in public transport, We

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Speaker 2: need to be having investment in cycling, walking, all those

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Speaker 2: other modes. But for us, the first port of call

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Speaker 2: for the money that is collected from road users needs

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Speaker 2: to be maintaining the current network and we haven't been

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Speaker 2: doing enough of that. So we need to be actually

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Speaker 2: increasing that investment because what we've seen over a number

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Speaker 2: of years is the roading network deteriorate and get worse

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Speaker 2: and more potholes and more damage, and we've got to

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Speaker 2: increase the investment to stop that happening and turn that

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Speaker 2: trend around.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so what's been announced today is actually spill be

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Speaker 1: compared to some of the stuff that the Infrastructure Minister

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Speaker 1: Chris Bishop is talking about doing in terms of funding

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Speaker 1: the roads, do you want him to go as far

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Speaker 1: as he's talking about, you know, things like value capture

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Speaker 1: and PPPs and stuff like that.

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Speaker 2: Well, the detail of how those things can work are

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Speaker 2: going to be the crucial factors, you know, as we

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Speaker 2: talk about it as a country. But we certainly think

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Speaker 2: we need to be looking at other ways of trying

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Speaker 2: to find funding for the transport and big infrastructure projects

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Speaker 2: that New Zealanders want. So, you know, we need to

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Speaker 2: be looking at these things. We need to be open

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Speaker 2: to new options, but we also are going to have

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Speaker 2: to wait to see a bit more detail about how

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Speaker 2: a lot of those things would work before we can

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Speaker 2: really take a position on whether we think that that's

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Speaker 2: the right approach. But we need to be open to

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Speaker 2: looking at new ideas.

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Speaker 1: Good stuff. Dylan always happy to talk to you and

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Speaker 1: appreciate your time. That's Dylan Thompson of the AA, the

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Speaker 1: Road Safety spokespoost In.

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