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Speaker 1: Most kiwis will have to pay the same as international

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Speaker 1: tourists to park at conservation sites this summer under a

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Speaker 1: trial Mount Cook, Dollarmite Point, Friends, Joseph All trial five

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Speaker 1: dollars an hour charge with the option of twenty five

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Speaker 1: dollars a day. This is for a rate a day rate,

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Speaker 1: rather sixty bucks for an annual pass. Locals can park

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Speaker 1: for just ten dollars a year, but other kiwis will

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Speaker 1: pay the same as the international visitors. So why President

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Speaker 1: of Federated Mountain Club's Megan Demizontos is with us, good evening,

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Speaker 1: good evening, right, great to have you on the show.

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Speaker 1: So is it fair that we kiwis, well most of us,

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Speaker 1: unless you live locally, would pay the same as an

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Speaker 1: international tourist.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Obviously FMC are advocated for the charge to only

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Speaker 2: apply to internationals, and so we're disappointed to see that

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Speaker 2: the charge is going to apply to kiwis as well.

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Speaker 1: Didn't they sort of imply I seem to remember when

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Speaker 1: they announced this that we would get a cheaper rate.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And I'm not sure about what's happened in the

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Speaker 2: background where they've decided that they're no longer going to

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Speaker 2: do that, But I guess the problem is that twenty

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Speaker 2: five dollars is probably not going to have a significant

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Speaker 2: enough impact on the crowding issue that doc claims to

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Speaker 2: be trying to address, but it will unfortunately have an

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Speaker 2: impact on low income families that are struggling with cost

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Speaker 2: of living crisis. So I don't know that this is

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Speaker 2: really a solution and its own right for the outer

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Speaker 2: for the over crowding issue.

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Speaker 1: If you're going to friends, Joseph, I mean, you're going once,

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Speaker 1: aren't you. You know, if you don't live nearby, you're

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Speaker 1: only going once. It's twenty five bucks to pay once.

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Speaker 1: It's a beautiful place to see, and it seems kind

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Speaker 1: of reasonable.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess for our members in particular, who are

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Speaker 2: back country users, you know, they all go into an

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Speaker 2: area for days at a time, So you know, a

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Speaker 2: back country usable will probably end up paying the sixty

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Speaker 2: dollars rate just to park once so that they can

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Speaker 2: go into the back country. So they're not actually using

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Speaker 2: the facilities in the area. They're quite a small number

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Speaker 2: of people, they're not necessarily the cause of the overcrowding problem,

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Speaker 2: but they're also going to shoulder a fairly unfair portion

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Speaker 2: of the burden.

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Speaker 1: All right, I appreciate your time. Thanks so much for

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Speaker 1: being with me again. That's Meghan Demizentos, who's the president

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Speaker 1: Federated Mountain Clubs.

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