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Speaker 1: So look at where a shed load of money is

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Speaker 1: heading towards and transport infrastructure. Over the next handful of years,

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Speaker 1: thirty three billion dollars is to be spent more roads

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Speaker 1: and maintenance, less on cycle ways transport mins to Simon

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Speaker 1: Brown's with us, a very good morning to you.

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Speaker 2: Good morning mine.

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Speaker 1: I think New Zealanders are sick and tired of the

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Speaker 1: amount of money going into cycle ways. Have you got

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Speaker 1: evidence of that or not.

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Speaker 2: We campaigned on building the building and maintaining our roading

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Speaker 2: network and reducing the amount of money going into cycle ways.

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Speaker 2: People voted for that and that's what we're delivering.

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Speaker 1: One thing to announce the dollars. Do the dollars buy

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Speaker 1: you what you need?

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Speaker 2: Yes? And that's a big focus. It's not just about

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Speaker 2: the money, it's about the delivery. And as we've talked

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Speaker 2: about before, that's where we've got the targets around the

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Speaker 2: road maintenance. That's why we're focused very much on getting

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Speaker 2: rid of those roadblocks, actually getting construction underway fast tracked. Consenting.

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Speaker 2: Crispenk's working on reviewing the public works sects so we

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Speaker 2: can have more get projects started more efficiently and quickly.

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Speaker 2: And also there's a huge amount of work going on

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Speaker 2: in MDCHAW to get back to basics around the standards

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Speaker 2: and make sure we have greater standardization of design because

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Speaker 2: we're so good as a country to design every single

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Speaker 2: bridge differently, adding cost and complexity which we don't need to.

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Speaker 2: For example, pen Link, they're building a new bridge there.

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Speaker 2: It's a bridge that's never been built in New Zealand before.

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Speaker 2: It's delayed the entire project. So getting back to basics, standardization,

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Speaker 2: fast tracked, consenting, all of those things are about actually

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Speaker 2: getting projects delivered on time and within budget.

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Speaker 1: Are they on board with that or do they just

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Speaker 1: say they're on board with that? Because in another hat

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Speaker 1: you've seen the pushback from councils. Are they buying into

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Speaker 1: what you want or not?

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Speaker 2: Or mdtr And we're obviously going for a process replacing board.

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Speaker 2: We've put sign bridges in, there's the chair. We've put

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Speaker 2: a bunch of engineers on the board as well. That's

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Speaker 2: all about making it very clear that this is the

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Speaker 2: government's priorities and they are to respond to it. And

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Speaker 2: at the same time we're making very clear in terms

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Speaker 2: of the focus areas that we want to be focused on.

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Speaker 2: So yes, they are responding in every single week we

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Speaker 2: continue to ensure they are responding.

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Speaker 1: Do you know once you put all this stuff in place,

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Speaker 1: what you will be getting efficiency wise in terms of

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Speaker 1: being for buck or we're still not there yet.

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Speaker 2: Well, what we know is I mean, if you look

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Speaker 2: through the National Land Transport Program outlines for thousands of

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Speaker 2: kilometers of roads that are going to be resealed and rehabilitated,

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Speaker 2: there's seven roads of national significance which identified for works

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Speaker 2: to start on in the next three years.

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Speaker 1: Well you know I know that, not the announcement. I'm

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Speaker 1: talking about actually being able to do it, do it

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Speaker 1: on time, do it efficiently, do it bang for buck.

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Speaker 1: In other words, the changes you are making, do you

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Speaker 1: know they will pay dividends?

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Speaker 2: Well, yes they will because ultimately this is about getting

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Speaker 2: the results the taxpayers expect and we are making sure

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Speaker 2: that there's clear reporting coming through to me as the Minister,

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Speaker 2: which I can then use to hold the management and

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Speaker 2: the board accountable for those results. And ultimately, at the

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Speaker 2: same time, the message to the construction sector is, and

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Speaker 2: I made this for a key when I spoke at

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Speaker 2: Building Nations last week, we need your assistance to ensure

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Speaker 2: we're not gold plating infrastructure, and you're taking a no

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Speaker 2: frills approach so that we could have affordable infrastructure here

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Speaker 2: in New Zealand.

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Speaker 1: Good night, I appreciate your time. Something round, Transport Minister,

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Speaker 1: another time, another place. It's worth asking, isn't it who

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Speaker 1: thought that building a bridge that no one had ever

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Speaker 1: built before was an exercise worth undertaking it? Do you

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Speaker 1: want all the bridges to look exactly the same and

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Speaker 1: be no frills? Well, given this some current saint yes

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Speaker 1: would be my answer. Lego it. For more from the

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