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Speaker 1: I've got good news for our favorite lost leading form

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Speaker 1: of public transport to who you're Hamilton to Auckland. It's

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Speaker 1: got an extension from m z TA. They've agreed to

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Speaker 1: a council request for sixty percent government funding for a

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Speaker 1: further year. Angela strange of course, no bigger fan of

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Speaker 1: this particular train than the chair of the Waycata Regional

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Speaker 1: Council Transport Committee back with us, Angela, good morning.

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Speaker 2: Good morning mate.

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Speaker 1: What's sixty percent in dollar terms? What have you got?

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Speaker 2: Ooh? Sorry, you don't need to hand at them. Mate.

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Speaker 1: You don't even know how much new train costs. So

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Speaker 1: you ask for money, you don't know how much you've got,

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Speaker 1: for goodness sake to it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so this is continuing the current far rate that

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Speaker 3: we've got at the moment, which is which is about

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Speaker 3: two hundred and fifty thousand.

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Speaker 1: That's what it costs to run the train per years.

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Speaker 1: That's sixty percent.

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Speaker 2: Sorry, Mike, I don't have the information to hand.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, sorry, that's all right.

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Speaker 1: How do you have any other numbers to hand, like

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Speaker 1: how many people travel on the train. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: So we've had fantastic patronage growth up until last year

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Speaker 3: with the rail closures across the whole network in Auckland,

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Speaker 3: which was to get ready for CRL. We did notice

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Speaker 3: a drop in patronage, but we're hoping that with the

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Speaker 3: extension for another year that those numbers will recover.

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Speaker 1: Hold on. You said there was fantastic growth until you

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Speaker 1: said there.

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Speaker 3: Was a drop.

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Speaker 1: So growth, there's not a drop. It's either a drop

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Speaker 1: for its growth, which is is it a drop?

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Speaker 2: So there was a noticeably drop last year.

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Speaker 1: Fantastic at all?

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Speaker 2: Well, overall it's had a tough run, Mike. You know this.

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Speaker 3: Since the start of it. We've had COVID, we've struggled

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Speaker 3: to get train drivers at times, and then with the

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Speaker 3: rail closures which has affected trains within Auckland and also

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Speaker 3: freight in our train as well.

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Speaker 1: So do you want to withdraw the words fantastic growth

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Speaker 1: given they're not applicable to the particular conversation.

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Speaker 2: Oh yep, happy to do that, Mike.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So we drop off and two hundred and fifty

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Speaker 1: thousand dollars. When does it pay its way or get

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Speaker 1: successful or become.

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Speaker 3: Well bearbox recovery Mike, fora is actually doing really well

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Speaker 3: compared to other public transport with a New Zealand listening

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Speaker 3: beat sixteen percent fearbox recovery. Well, it's closer per kilometer

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Speaker 3: than say, the metro train trains within Auckland. That's very

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Speaker 3: the problem and hence my conversation before Mike about rail closures.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, Angela. Always good to have you on the program.

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Speaker 1: Appreciate it very much. Angela is strange. I mean she

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Speaker 1: keeps coming on. Let's give her that. For more from

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