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Speaker 1: Organ Transport has been forced to take down ads that

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Speaker 1: encourage people to bust to the mall after pushback from

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Speaker 1: small businesses. The posters were put up throughout Auckland's small

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Speaker 1: retail villages saying jingle bus, Jingle bus, jingle to the mall.

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Speaker 1: Excuse me, this is terrible, but it continues. Oh what

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Speaker 1: fun it is to ride with no parking queues at all.

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Speaker 1: Mois Shore is with us. She's the k Road business

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Speaker 1: owner and chairperson of the Care Road Business Association. Good afternoon,

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Speaker 1: good afternoon. What's wrong with that jingle? It sounds like inspired.

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Speaker 2: Inspired if you work at the malls or you are

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Speaker 2: the malls. But it's a bit of a kick in

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Speaker 2: the guards if you're a local business owner and the

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Speaker 2: local business precincts. So yeah, it's not good at all.

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Speaker 2: It Tana shares the relationships with business districts and Auckland Transport,

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Speaker 2: so it takes away the customers from local businesses and

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Speaker 2: takes them to the mall where you know, the malls

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Speaker 2: make huge amounts of money and and it appears that

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Speaker 2: Auckland Transport almost have bent on making sure that the

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Speaker 2: malls make even more money. So it's really really unfortunate

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Speaker 2: that they've put all those posts all around Auckland, especially

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Speaker 2: in our local precincts like Kingsland.

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Speaker 1: Right right in your face.

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Speaker 2: They put them right in our face, in our face.

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Speaker 2: It's not good at all. It's a bit of a

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Speaker 2: kick in the gap.

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Speaker 1: Do you worry though, because this is essentially what they want,

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Speaker 1: isn't it. You know Auckland transport, and you know they've

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Speaker 1: been sort of emasculated just recently, but this is what

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Speaker 1: councils want. They want us to be getting public transport

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Speaker 1: to one big area to shop, rather than you know,

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Speaker 1: all driving our cars to go to lots of different

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Speaker 1: places like k Road.

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Speaker 2: No. No, I mean, if you've got public transport, you

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Speaker 2: can get out public transport to your local shops. You know,

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Speaker 2: we've got some plastic local businesses. They're offered great Christmas

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Speaker 2: you know, So I would actually push back on that.

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Speaker 2: You know, yes, they are trying to, I agree, get

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Speaker 2: us out of our cars. But if they trying to

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Speaker 2: get us out of our cars and to buses or

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Speaker 2: trains or whatnot, then they can clearly advertise to go

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Speaker 2: to your local shops to get your Christmas gifts or

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Speaker 2: ye cues there, so you know, their strategy, their way

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Speaker 2: of thinking is not quite right. And I think it

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Speaker 2: doesn't help when they clearly advertise to go to them all.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it doesn't help you guys. I can see exactly

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Speaker 1: where you're coming from.

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Speaker 2: Moy.

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Speaker 1: Do they get some brownie points for taking the post?

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Speaker 1: I understand they've partially covered up some of them and

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Speaker 1: they are taking the rest of them down. Do they

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Speaker 1: Do they get some brownie points from you for that? No?

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Speaker 2: Nice, not at all, not at all. The damage has

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Speaker 2: been done the post is you know, think people have

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Speaker 2: seen them that they're not small, they're huge. You know,

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Speaker 2: the damage has been done. Really, Auckland Transport need to

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Speaker 2: give some good faith back to local businesses and maybe

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Speaker 2: perhaps put free busses to the local shopping centers or

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Speaker 2: maybe double the advertising to go to your local shopping centers,

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Speaker 2: you know, and support your local businesses. So I don't

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Speaker 2: think just covering them up is a sign of any

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Speaker 2: good faith. It's like, oh, we've really screwed up here

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Speaker 2: and let's try and recked via Mas stakes by covering

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Speaker 2: it up. That's not really any browning points. The damage

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Speaker 2: has been done, all right.

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Speaker 1: Well, it sounds like there is no redemption from you.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate you took your time, Merry Christmas, and I

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Speaker 1: hope that you pick up some business off the back

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Speaker 1: of this interview. Moyture with us. She is the K

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Speaker 1: Road business owner and chairperson of the CA Road Business Association.

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Speaker 1: In Auckland. The council there basically putting up posters saying

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Speaker 1: go to the mall, and you can understand why she

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Speaker 1: wouldn't like that. For more from Heather Dooplasye Allen Drive,

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