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Speaker 1: So if you're in a bit of a rush yesterday

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Speaker 1: and I don't know, maybe somehow you got caught out

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Speaker 1: by daylight saving or you were scrambling to get to

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Speaker 1: an appointment and you forgot to put money in the

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Speaker 1: meter before rushing off, you would have been fined for

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Speaker 1: your errand parking forty dollars, right, forty bucks. But if

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Speaker 1: you did the same thing today, exactly the same thing,

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Speaker 1: parked in the wrong place, didn't put money in the meter,

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Speaker 1: didn't use the app exactly the same offense, you would

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Speaker 1: be fined seventy dollars. Almost double. Parking fines are up

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Speaker 1: for the first time in twenty years, and errant parkers

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Speaker 1: will be out parkers will be facing stricter penalties right

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Speaker 1: across the board. I think the single highest parking fine

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Speaker 1: as it stands is for parking in a disabled spot

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Speaker 1: seven hundred and fifty bucks. Now, look, I don't have

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Speaker 1: an issue with the higher fines. If you don't want

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Speaker 1: to be fined, pay for your parking. It's pretty simple

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Speaker 1: as far as I'm concerned. But despite supporting higher fines,

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Speaker 1: Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown isn't happy with the new regime.

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Speaker 1: He takes as you with the fact that finds are

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Speaker 1: still set by central government under the Land Transport Act

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Speaker 1: rather than by local councils. And honestly, I think he's

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Speaker 1: got a really good point. I mean, it might seem

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Speaker 1: like a trivial subject, right, Parking finds might seem like

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Speaker 1: a relatively trivial focus for a government or council. It

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Speaker 1: just seems absurd to me that, for all the talk

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Speaker 1: about localism, councils are still relying on an edict from

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Speaker 1: Wellington to set their parking fines. I mean, if a

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Speaker 1: council can't be relied or relied on to set appropriate

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Speaker 1: parking finds for its jurisdiction, how on earth can we

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Speaker 1: expect it to manage a balance sheet? Can we expect

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Speaker 1: it to manage consenting or complex infrastructure planning? And Wayne

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Speaker 1: Brown's quite right, there is no reason that finds congested

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Speaker 1: big city centers should be the same as parking finds

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Speaker 1: on the main street of a regional town. That just

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Speaker 1: makes no sense. Central government says it wants local councils

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Speaker 1: to be focused on the basics. Surely setting parking finds

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Speaker 1: within its own jurisdiction qualifies as a basic.

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