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Speaker 1: So the government came to the pothole party. Just over

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Speaker 1: two billion going on state highways. One point nine billion

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Speaker 1: will be for the local roads. Transport Minister Simme and

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Speaker 1: Brown with us on.

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Speaker 2: This very good morning, Good morning mine.

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Speaker 1: All the reaction I'm getting this morning, hundreds of text

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Speaker 1: road management. What are you going to do about road management?

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Speaker 1: Because four billions a lot of money, but not of you,

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Speaker 1: you know, wasted all on cones.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, this government's committed to getting the cost of traffic

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Speaker 2: management down and in fact we've already been working very

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Speaker 2: closely with MTTA on this particular issue. They audited eight

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Speaker 2: hundred of their traffic eight hundred of their work sites

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Speaker 2: back in Februan and found one hundred and forty five

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Speaker 2: of them were not needed. So they're taking a much

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Speaker 2: more firmer approach to actually getting on top of traffic management.

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Speaker 2: They're also issuing a new code for traffic management operators

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Speaker 2: which is much more aligned to the Australian model. We

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Speaker 2: see a lot fewer cones on the roads. And we're

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Speaker 2: also going to start requiring MDEDA to report on regularly

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Speaker 2: how much actually spending on traffic management. They understand the

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Speaker 2: cost of bitchmen. They understand the cost of aggregate, they

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Speaker 2: understand the cost of labor, but they don't understand the

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Speaker 2: cost of traffic management. We're going to require them to

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Speaker 2: actually publish that so that we can get those numbers down.

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Speaker 1: And do they accept there's a problem and we're all

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Speaker 1: over it.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, they do accept the problem. And it's our job

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Speaker 2: as a government to make sure that they are all

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Speaker 2: over it to get those costs down, because I want

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Speaker 2: this extra funding to go into actually fixing our roads

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Speaker 2: and proving the quality of our roads so that Kewis

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Speaker 2: can get where they need to go quickly and safe.

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Speaker 2: And they don't think there's any of your listeners listening

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Speaker 2: todays say our roads are a great state. We do

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Speaker 2: need to put more money into our roads, but I

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Speaker 2: want it going into actually fixing the roads and not

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Speaker 2: lining in the pockets of traffic management companies.

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Speaker 1: Couldn't agree more. The other thing they're concerned about is

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Speaker 1: it's ongoing, So yep, fix fix up the mess that's

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Speaker 1: been so shoddily. Let go. Once you've fixed it up.

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Speaker 1: Is it ongoing so we're not here again?

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Speaker 2: Yes, absolutely, this is a step change, and this is

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Speaker 2: about actually ensuring that the funding goes into not just

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Speaker 2: the patchwork cook we've seen on our roads under the

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Speaker 2: last three years of the last government, but actually saying

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Speaker 2: we need to be resealing, rehabilitating our roads to those

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Speaker 2: long term renewal standards are two percent being rebuilt every

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Speaker 2: year up to nine percent being resealed every year, and

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Speaker 2: actually getting drainage under control and actually managing that to

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Speaker 2: get the water off our roads. So this is about

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Speaker 2: putting long term targets in place for the agency. It's

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Speaker 2: not just giving them more money, but it's actually clear

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Speaker 2: targets that they need to meet in order to actually

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Speaker 2: ensure our roads are being properly maintained rather than sort

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Speaker 2: of the patchwork fixed that the last government's approach was

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Speaker 2: to was to road maintenance, which was actually more expensive

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Speaker 2: in the long run because you just patched over it

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Speaker 2: and then you had to patch over it again and

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Speaker 2: again again.

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Speaker 1: Exactly all right, go well this weekend, appreciate it very

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Speaker 1: much to me in brand Transport Minister, So you got

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Speaker 1: the good word on traffic management.

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