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Speaker 1: Change is coming to a road near U. Speed limit

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Speaker 1: reductions are often new rules are including the idea of

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Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty k's on major roads of national significance.

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Speaker 1: Doctor Jamie Hosking is with the Healthy Auckland Together group

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Speaker 1: and is with us very good morning to.

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Speaker 2: You go Mike.

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Speaker 1: So where are we at you? You seem to be

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Speaker 1: interested I think in the school side of the equation.

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Speaker 1: Does that change dramatically under this new proposal?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it does mean big changes unfortunately, And yes, being

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Speaker 2: with Healthy Auckland Together, we're particularly interested in city streets

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Speaker 2: and some of the safe speed zones that we've gotten

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Speaker 2: in cities, and yes, including around schools. And what we've

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Speaker 2: got in a lot of schools at the moment is

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Speaker 2: these permanent thirty K zones, and we know they work

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Speaker 2: really well, but unfortunately the proposal is to change to

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Speaker 2: the variable zones and they only operate for thirty K

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Speaker 2: for thirty minutes at the beginning and the end of

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Speaker 2: each school day. Whereas we know that five out of

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Speaker 2: six deaths and serious injuries that occur in those zones

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Speaker 2: around schools actually happen outside those times when the variable

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Speaker 2: limits wouldn't be operating, So I don't think that's the

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Speaker 2: right thing to do.

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Speaker 1: Well, a couple of questions, how many deaths are there

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Speaker 1: around school zones and are those school pupils in those

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Speaker 1: school zones or just deaths outside of the school area.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, this certainly includes not just not just the kids

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Speaker 2: who are going to these schools, and so I think

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Speaker 2: these benefits that we see for the permanent zones outside

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Speaker 2: schools are for other people as well. But it is

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Speaker 2: for kids too, because kids are not just outside schools

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Speaker 2: when it comes to just the thirty minutes at the

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Speaker 2: beginning and the end of the school day. They might

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Speaker 2: be going there to use the playground later on, or

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Speaker 2: going there for sports events on the weekend, that kind

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Speaker 2: of thing.

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Speaker 1: Do you have a view on the one twenty potentially

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Speaker 1: into the roads of national significance or the initial one ten?

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Speaker 2: Look, our focus is really on city streets and the

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Speaker 2: things that we're concerned about our city streets is not

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Speaker 2: with the changes at that kind of speed, but it's

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Speaker 2: more on the changes where we've got some safe speed

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Speaker 2: zones in place, and we've got some thirty K zones

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Speaker 2: that have been put in and we know that if

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Speaker 2: we reverse those thirty k zones and we increase the

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Speaker 2: speed limits to fifty ks. That's going to lead to

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Speaker 2: more people dying and being seriously injured. It will increase

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Speaker 2: injuries on those streets by more than half.

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Speaker 1: All right, doctor I appreciate it very much. Doctor Jamie Hosking,

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Speaker 1: spokesperson for the Healthy Auckland Together group.

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