1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:02,040 Speaker 1: Got an issue in christ which council steering down a 2 00:00:02,080 --> 00:00:04,280 Speaker 1: six and a half million dollar problem. That's the price 3 00:00:04,320 --> 00:00:06,960 Speaker 1: that Key we Rail have put on safety improvements to 4 00:00:07,120 --> 00:00:09,440 Speaker 1: have could cycle away. Now the crossing poses are one 5 00:00:09,560 --> 00:00:13,640 Speaker 1: in one thousand and three year risk. I've seen this 6 00:00:13,960 --> 00:00:16,560 Speaker 1: injury or death. At no point, by the way, does 7 00:00:16,560 --> 00:00:19,280 Speaker 1: the one and a half kilometer cycle away cross the tracks. 8 00:00:19,760 --> 00:00:22,480 Speaker 1: So now they're facing closure anyway the city council Aaron 9 00:00:22,520 --> 00:00:24,000 Speaker 1: kewans with us, Aaron, Morning. 10 00:00:24,600 --> 00:00:25,160 Speaker 2: Morning, Mike. 11 00:00:25,360 --> 00:00:28,760 Speaker 1: So literally where is this A is this on railway land? 12 00:00:28,800 --> 00:00:31,240 Speaker 1: Hence they've got some sort of say in this. 13 00:00:32,680 --> 00:00:36,199 Speaker 2: No, the problem is we're near via crossing, like you 14 00:00:36,240 --> 00:00:40,680 Speaker 2: said in the lead. And what triggers these upgrades nowadays 15 00:00:40,840 --> 00:00:45,320 Speaker 2: is if you bring any new people to a crossing point. 16 00:00:45,840 --> 00:00:48,000 Speaker 2: So if there was already one thousand people a day 17 00:00:48,040 --> 00:00:50,519 Speaker 2: crossing there, that's all good. But if you go to 18 00:00:50,560 --> 00:00:53,840 Speaker 2: one thousand and five, you've now triggered an upgrade, or 19 00:00:54,280 --> 00:00:56,800 Speaker 2: you've brought new people to the area, so and so forth. 20 00:00:56,840 --> 00:00:59,840 Speaker 2: So we then have to pay for the upgrade because 21 00:00:59,840 --> 00:01:02,640 Speaker 2: we put the infrastructure there that drew the people in. 22 00:01:03,040 --> 00:01:05,560 Speaker 1: What's the upgrade required? If you were going to spend 23 00:01:05,600 --> 00:01:07,120 Speaker 1: six and a half million dollars, what would. 24 00:01:06,880 --> 00:01:11,399 Speaker 2: You build I'm assuming for that much money. Thy meaning 25 00:01:11,440 --> 00:01:15,080 Speaker 2: the whole gate system that allows pedestrians and stuff to 26 00:01:15,080 --> 00:01:16,920 Speaker 2: go in and out through there, which is kind of 27 00:01:16,920 --> 00:01:21,360 Speaker 2: odd because the cyclists aren't crossing there. No, like said, 28 00:01:21,640 --> 00:01:24,000 Speaker 2: you don't even go over this level crossing, you go 29 00:01:24,120 --> 00:01:24,560 Speaker 2: beside it. 30 00:01:24,720 --> 00:01:27,759 Speaker 1: What's the trigger point in getting how close there must 31 00:01:27,800 --> 00:01:29,399 Speaker 1: be a trigger point if you are if you're not 32 00:01:29,440 --> 00:01:32,279 Speaker 1: crossing it, you must be close, like within five meters 33 00:01:32,360 --> 00:01:34,440 Speaker 1: you're close enough to trigger it. Is that how that works? 34 00:01:37,040 --> 00:01:39,520 Speaker 2: No? My understanding is that other people are going to 35 00:01:39,560 --> 00:01:41,440 Speaker 2: go across it. And the number we heard from some 36 00:01:41,480 --> 00:01:43,240 Speaker 2: of the local kids and stuff the other day is 37 00:01:43,280 --> 00:01:47,400 Speaker 2: that three people now use that crossing to get onto 38 00:01:47,560 --> 00:01:48,360 Speaker 2: the cycle. 39 00:01:48,040 --> 00:01:50,720 Speaker 1: Way, So that one hundred and three year it's not 40 00:01:50,800 --> 00:01:52,800 Speaker 1: like a storm, a one and one hundred year storm. 41 00:01:52,880 --> 00:01:55,000 Speaker 1: Is it the one thousand and three that's the three 42 00:01:55,040 --> 00:01:59,040 Speaker 1: that triggers it to be a problem. God, this is 43 00:01:59,080 --> 00:02:00,560 Speaker 1: studio people do. 44 00:02:00,680 --> 00:02:03,440 Speaker 2: But that modeling that one in one thousand year is 45 00:02:03,480 --> 00:02:06,800 Speaker 2: that when you take all of the depths every year 46 00:02:06,840 --> 00:02:08,480 Speaker 2: and you divide it by how many things and how 47 00:02:08,480 --> 00:02:11,120 Speaker 2: many people are crossing. That's the number you come up with, 48 00:02:12,040 --> 00:02:15,040 Speaker 2: but only just when you look at level crossings across 49 00:02:15,040 --> 00:02:17,400 Speaker 2: the whole country. It's only three point one people a 50 00:02:17,480 --> 00:02:21,240 Speaker 2: year killed at level crossings. Other people die walking on 51 00:02:21,320 --> 00:02:23,400 Speaker 2: tracks and other things like that, but at level crossings 52 00:02:23,400 --> 00:02:25,720 Speaker 2: where all these upgrades are, and there's thousands needed across 53 00:02:25,720 --> 00:02:27,640 Speaker 2: the country, it's going to treat them like this. So 54 00:02:27,720 --> 00:02:30,720 Speaker 2: now you're talking kings of billions of dogs. You might 55 00:02:30,760 --> 00:02:32,000 Speaker 2: as well shut railways. 56 00:02:32,280 --> 00:02:35,560 Speaker 1: What are you going to do about this? Apart from 57 00:02:35,600 --> 00:02:37,400 Speaker 1: putting well there Film. 58 00:02:37,120 --> 00:02:41,200 Speaker 2: Major has written to the appropriate ministers. I think the 59 00:02:41,240 --> 00:02:43,960 Speaker 2: real suggestion is getting them actually down onto the site 60 00:02:44,040 --> 00:02:45,360 Speaker 2: to have a little bit of the site and go 61 00:02:45,480 --> 00:02:47,000 Speaker 2: how ludicrous. 62 00:02:46,400 --> 00:02:48,399 Speaker 1: Are you dealing with someone going from Wellington? 63 00:02:49,919 --> 00:02:53,320 Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, we're dealing with with railway types at the 64 00:02:53,360 --> 00:02:56,560 Speaker 2: moment who don't seem to want to They don't want 65 00:02:56,560 --> 00:02:57,920 Speaker 2: to help facilitate the outcome. 66 00:02:58,440 --> 00:03:01,120 Speaker 1: All right, well we'll stay in touch with the That's 67 00:03:01,160 --> 00:03:03,880 Speaker 1: a cool job, isn't it In life writing to Kiwi 68 00:03:03,960 --> 00:03:08,359 Speaker 1: rail dealing with crap like that. It's just a lot 69 00:03:08,360 --> 00:03:09,840 Speaker 1: of the people use that track by the way to 70 00:03:09,880 --> 00:03:12,520 Speaker 1: go to limit High, which is the old Elma Mata, 71 00:03:12,680 --> 00:03:14,760 Speaker 1: which by the way, is not called limit High anymore 72 00:03:14,800 --> 00:03:18,680 Speaker 1: because they all went woke and changed it. But some 73 00:03:18,760 --> 00:03:21,760 Speaker 1: of us who went still, how was it not called 74 00:03:21,800 --> 00:03:25,600 Speaker 1: the Husking Memorial High. Question of the morning Glynn. 75 00:03:26,120 --> 00:03:29,040 Speaker 2: For more from the Mic Asking Breakfast, listen live to 76 00:03:29,160 --> 00:03:32,200 Speaker 2: news Talks it'd be from six am weekdays, or follow 77 00:03:32,240 --> 00:03:33,840 Speaker 2: the podcast on iHeartRadio.