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Speaker 1: So Wellington they're at it again. Shell Lane, which is

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Speaker 1: just off the Terrace, has had a bit of a makeup.

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Speaker 1: Part of its new bike rack holds twenty four bikes.

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Speaker 1: Apparently the cost is half a million dollars. In fact,

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Speaker 1: it's more than half a million dollars. It's five hundred

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Speaker 1: and fifty thousand dollars. Are the Wellington City councilor Diane

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Speaker 1: Kilbot's with us on this, Diane, very good morning to.

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Speaker 2: You, Good morning Mike.

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Speaker 1: Just for clarity's sake, is the lane five hundred and

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Speaker 1: fifty thousand dollars or just the bike rack?

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Speaker 2: Well, the bike crack was around about one hundred and

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Speaker 2: twenty thousand. But to put the bike rack in they

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Speaker 2: needed to make the footpath wider, and then they also

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Speaker 2: put some CCTV cameras in, and then they need to

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Speaker 2: put some power to the bike rack. So all and

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Speaker 2: out it costs sort of round about five hundred and

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Speaker 2: sixty two thousand dollars.

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Speaker 1: Do excuse me, why do you need power for a

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Speaker 1: bike rack?

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Speaker 2: Well, you need to have the cct that the camera's there.

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Speaker 1: Oh okay, look.

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Speaker 2: Over twenty four bikes, which it seems quite bizarre when

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Speaker 2: we don't have enough CCTV cameras through this CBD with

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Speaker 2: and lots more people around.

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Speaker 1: I'm guessing there aren't twenty four bikes. There's never been

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Speaker 1: twenty four bikes, am I right?

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Speaker 2: Well, look I've been down there last few weeks and

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Speaker 2: either there's the most spikes I've seen, there is one okay.

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Speaker 1: One point so twenty three gaps so play, plenty of parking.

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Speaker 2: And fifty meters up the roads the Council's building and

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Speaker 2: there's a public bike rack outside and that's never.

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Speaker 1: Full right, How is it the stuff happens from your experience?

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Speaker 2: Well, it's it's probably hidden away in some budgets that

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Speaker 2: we never see the light of day. But I mean,

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Speaker 2: obviously an example like this, we need to make sure

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Speaker 2: we've got better transparency because also this is a half

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Speaker 2: a million dollar budget as it's turned out to be.

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Speaker 2: But if we think about the Golden mar and Thornton Key,

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Speaker 2: which are millions of dollars, If we're doing this on

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Speaker 2: a simple bike crack, what on earth are we going

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Speaker 2: to be doing on those projects?

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Speaker 1: Couldn't agree more? Are you cognizant that Wellington's dead has

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Speaker 1: and Wellington City's debt will go up by ninety one

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Speaker 1: percent this year from three years ago to one point

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Speaker 1: eight billion dollars.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it was around about one point eight

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Speaker 2: one point nine billion, And.

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Speaker 1: When we're talking about half a million dollar marks, well.

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Speaker 2: I do. But for Salmon, I've been really surprised by

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Speaker 2: some of my colleagues reaction as if they're not really

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Speaker 2: that concerned, which is really concerning to me because we

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Speaker 2: just had a twenty percent rates increase and literally I've

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Speaker 2: got residents saying we can't afford this. Yeah, we're on

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Speaker 2: fixed incomes, we can't afford this, can and we are

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Speaker 2: spending half a million dollars on a bike crack that's

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Speaker 2: not required in that particular area.

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Speaker 1: Do you find your life frustrating as a council of Diane.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely absolutely. But you know somebody's got to keep on

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Speaker 2: the good fight.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that is true. You have a good weekend. I

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Speaker 1: appreciate your time, Diane Calvert. I couldn't stand it. I'd

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Speaker 1: rather shoot myself. Wellington's debt up by ninety one percent

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Speaker 1: to one point eight billion, Hut up by one hundred

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Speaker 1: and thirty nine percent to five hundred and thirty nine million,

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Speaker 1: and Pory rus up by one hundred and forty three

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Speaker 1: percent to three hundred fifty five million. For more from

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