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Speaker 1: Should come as no surprise to absolutely anyone that driving

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Speaker 1: on our roads is about to get more expensive. So

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Speaker 1: men Brown, he came out this afternoon. He's whacking tolls

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Speaker 1: on three new highways and expressways, all Taki two north

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Speaker 1: of Livin. That total will be two dollars seventy for

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Speaker 1: a car, and any toll that you hear about double

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Speaker 1: it for a truck, by the way, so it's about

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Speaker 1: five point forty for a truck. The Taketimu North Link,

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Speaker 1: this is totaling a two tapoona four lanes, two dollars

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Speaker 1: ten off peak, three ten for peak. PenLink in Auckland,

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Speaker 1: that's two dollars during peak and sorry, two dollars off

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Speaker 1: peak and three dollars peak again double it for trucks.

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Speaker 1: And these prices they announced today are going to increase

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Speaker 1: with inflation. This does not bother me one bit. In fact,

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Speaker 1: I'm happy about this. If we keep relying on governments

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Speaker 1: to fund infrastructure off their balance sheets with borrowing, we

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Speaker 1: will keep getting the same woeful results that we have

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Speaker 1: thus far. Roads that are shoddy and unsafe, roads that

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Speaker 1: aren't big enough for y enough, and not enough roads

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Speaker 1: being built to drive the regional economic growth that this

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Speaker 1: country so desperately needs. The last government canceled a bunch

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Speaker 1: of rons the roads of national significance, and put some

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Speaker 1: of that money into public transport. Now, hopefully if a

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Speaker 1: road has a toll attached to it, it'll be much

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Speaker 1: harder to justify them doing that and when they get

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Speaker 1: back into office. What we don't yet know from the

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Speaker 1: government is whether existing roads, Yes, existing roads will be

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Speaker 1: told because I don't think it's fair to do that.

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Speaker 1: The government has changed the rules to allow tolling of

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Speaker 1: existing roles roads if a new corridor or extension is

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Speaker 1: being added to it, but it hasn't yet been very

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Speaker 1: specific in today's announcement. Does that mean the whole road

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Speaker 1: or just the new bit. They need to clarify this

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Speaker 1: because it's hardly fair if you have bought a house

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Speaker 1: and you commute, and you've done your sums on your

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Speaker 1: commute and how you get to work and how you

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Speaker 1: get home on the basis that it wasn't told and

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Speaker 1: they turn around and whack you with a charge, that's

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Speaker 1: not fair. Apart from that, on the whole I say,

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Speaker 1: build the roads, we'll pay for them, just get it done.

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