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Speaker 1: Fantastic news, as I told you earlier for businesses along

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Speaker 1: Auckland's Winyard Quarter, because the foot bridge is finally up

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Speaker 1: and running again this morning, and it's been out since March,

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Speaker 1: which has been a real pain in the butt. Tricky

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Speaker 1: hardly owns the conservatory and is with us now. Hey Tricky,

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Speaker 1: good morning. Have you had a wander across the bridge yet?

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Speaker 2: I haven't had a wonder yet, but I've had multiple

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Speaker 2: texts and messages this morning telling me it's back out

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Speaker 2: open finally.

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Speaker 1: Are you relieved?

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Speaker 2: Incredibly relieving, and to be honest, we're all incredibly excited.

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Speaker 2: And then they drives to welcome everyone back to look

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Speaker 2: at your quarter.

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Speaker 1: Do you how many people have you lost as a

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Speaker 1: result of that bridge been down?

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Speaker 2: Business has been down sixty percent since it closed. We

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Speaker 2: winter down there as tough anyway, but this has been

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Speaker 2: incredibly hard for all of us.

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Speaker 1: Do you think, though, because it's been down for such

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Speaker 1: a long time and we're talking nine months now, are

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Speaker 1: you going to need to remind people that you guys

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Speaker 1: exist or they're just going to start coming back over

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Speaker 1: do you think?

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Speaker 2: I say I think both. I think definitely there definitely

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Speaker 2: needs to be some some work out there in the

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Speaker 2: community to make sure everyone's aware that in its back open,

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Speaker 2: which is appreciate you doing so this morning, because it's

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Speaker 2: been a very long and frustrating year for every business

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Speaker 2: and their staff in the area.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, totally has. What do you make of the fact

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Speaker 1: that it was sort of like it was done without

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Speaker 1: much fanfare this morning. We weren't even sure until about

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Speaker 1: six fifty three that it was actually going to open.

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Speaker 2: No, they didn't fill us with a great deal of

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Speaker 2: confident and in world and it was me today. I

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Speaker 2: want to have picked Friday the thirteenth personally as a date,

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Speaker 2: but no, when we were away it was possibly going

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Speaker 2: to be today. But I think they were just safeguarding

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Speaker 2: themselves as usual.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, probably just hedging their bits, which does worry me. Tricky,

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Speaker 1: Thanks man, and best of like. And hopefully the bridge

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Speaker 1: keeps working, because even that's not a seriously tricky hardly

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Speaker 1: the conservatory. So if you are down in the viaduct

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Speaker 1: and you're wanting to spend some dollars, give them a

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Speaker 1: go at the windyar Quarter. Are they really really if

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Speaker 1: this is an Auckland obviously, do.

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Speaker 3: We need to explain to the rest of the country

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Speaker 3: that this is like a draw bridge. Yes, it goes

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Speaker 3: up and down, which is because I think we just

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Speaker 3: keep calling it this bridge there.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, as open probably do need to explain it.

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Speaker 3: The whole situation is a bit stupid that you've got about,

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Speaker 3: I don't know, sixteen boats or something that have tall

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Speaker 3: masks that wouldn't fit under a bridge, that sometimes go

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Speaker 3: past it and sometimes don't.

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Speaker 1: And well, I mean there's also the aspect that you

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Speaker 1: could just walk around, couldn't you, or you could just

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Speaker 1: get a new bit. But no, no, we've got to

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Speaker 1: have this bridge. It's a very complicated, it's all. It's

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Speaker 1: just absolutely I mean.

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Speaker 3: If this is Queenstown, that'd be a zip line or something.

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Speaker 1: Probably something of the sort. For more from the Mic

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