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Speaker 1: The Transport Coalition is calling for Wellington Council to rethink

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Speaker 1: the raised crossings that they're proposing for Thornton Key that

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Speaker 1: get this, five raised crossings in a one point seven

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Speaker 1: kilometer stretch of road. The coalition says that the crossings

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Speaker 1: can cause damage to large passenger vehicles and freight vehicles

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Speaker 1: and an increased risk for delays and disruptions for your

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Speaker 1: emergency services that's your ambulances and your fire service. Dom

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Speaker 1: Klasi is the interim CEO of Transporting New Zealand, they

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Speaker 1: look after road freight. He's with me this morning, doom.

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Speaker 1: How slow would a truck have to have to slow

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Speaker 1: down to to get over one of these things?

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Speaker 2: What city council is saying is they want vehicles to

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Speaker 2: slow down to about thirty kilometers an hour. So they're

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Speaker 2: actually going to put signs up to.

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Speaker 1: Say there right, and will trucks have to go even

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Speaker 1: slower than that? You know, big ones?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Look, particularly if they've got free job cargo on board.

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Speaker 2: You know, every time you go over a sharp bump

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Speaker 2: and you do need to slow down otherwise.

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Speaker 1: You can damage the ca So we're talking like five crossings,

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Speaker 1: five raised crossings you'd be going ten k's over these

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Speaker 1: crossings or something like that.

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Speaker 2: If you've got that would make it comfortable. And we're

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Speaker 2: just carrying freight. Think about all the people and buses

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Speaker 2: and ambulances and ambulances. You know, people could be on

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Speaker 2: their way to hospital and they're going over these bumps.

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Speaker 2: It's not very nice.

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Speaker 1: No, And also, I mean foreign emergency is said that

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Speaker 1: it could add fifty to sixty seconds delayed to their

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Speaker 1: response time, which may not sound like much, but in

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Speaker 1: a life or death situation, and you're tak into account

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Speaker 1: that their target is eight minutes to get to an.

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Speaker 2: Event absolutely end. I think it might be aware fans

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Speaker 2: they get involved in providing CPR when ambulance can't, So

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Speaker 2: you know that's even more critical.

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Speaker 1: Is this in terms of freight, because that's your area

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Speaker 1: of expertise. Is this a busy road?

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Speaker 2: It is? And look, if I understand the typically the

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Speaker 2: about eleven thousand vehicles going down there each day, and

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Speaker 2: I suspect about sixteen percent of those, so it's somewhere

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Speaker 2: around the eighteen hundred vehicles a day are freight vehicles

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Speaker 2: that would have to slow down five times, regardless of

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Speaker 2: whether they've got right of way through the site through

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Speaker 2: their signal.

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Speaker 1: Is the counsel listening to you, guys, Do you think

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Speaker 1: that there's a chance they will change things?

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Speaker 2: Well, we're spoked. Actually, the mayor wrote to our coalition

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Speaker 2: yesterday acknowledging that there needs to be a balance of

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Speaker 2: all factors when considering these sorts of thing. So we're

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Speaker 2: looking forward to that discussion.

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Speaker 1: Better late than never, i suppose, Dom. Thank you very

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Speaker 1: much for your time. That's Don Calesi who's with the

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Speaker 1: Transport Group, sorry, the coalition, i should say, group of

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Speaker 1: transport representatives who aren't basically saying this is going to

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Speaker 1: slow us down too much. He's in from CEO of

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