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Speaker 1: Yes, Dad, five hundred thousand people in America are legally

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Speaker 1: and Big Joe says, come on in, and you wonder

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Speaker 1: why it's an election issue. Richard Arnold with more on

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Speaker 1: that shortly. Meantime. Back here, the focus this week has

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Speaker 1: been on old planes. Don't forget about the old fairies.

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Speaker 1: We've got some of those as well. Kee we Rail

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Speaker 1: now estimate annual maintenance costs for the inter Islander could double.

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Speaker 1: The sixty five million dollars. Is the greatest thing the

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Speaker 1: inter Islander ever did that jingle family? Yes, this was

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Speaker 1: peak fairy, wasn't it. I mean it wasn't there. The

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Speaker 1: fairy was never any good, but at least the song

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Speaker 1: was okay there for a while. Public Transport Uses Association

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Speaker 1: National coordinator John Reeves as well us John, very good morning.

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Speaker 2: To you, Very good morning to you, Mike.

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Speaker 1: When were you last on the faerry?

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Speaker 2: Well, finally enough, I'm booked on for next Wednesday and

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Speaker 2: I'm hoping it will go.

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Speaker 1: Are you a regular or not?

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Speaker 2: Really? About once a year I use.

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Speaker 1: It, and of your recent experience, I mean I haven't

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Speaker 1: been on for years, and it used to be of

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Speaker 1: moderate excitement and you could buy a drink and some

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Speaker 1: biscuits and watch television and then see the big swells

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Speaker 1: and the cook straight and all that sort of stuff.

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Speaker 1: Is it still fun when it goes well?

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Speaker 2: I've been fortunate every time I've used it, I haven't

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Speaker 2: had the huge swells. I've had quite sunny experiences. Now

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Speaker 2: I'm not sure what's going to be like next week,

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Speaker 2: and I'm touchwood hoping that it'll actually leave.

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Speaker 1: What do you pay for that? By the way, how

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Speaker 1: much is a fairy crossing.

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Speaker 2: That moving a car across. It's about two hundred and

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Speaker 2: twelve dollars.

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Speaker 1: Wow, that doesn't seem bad to me. Anyway, back to

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Speaker 1: more important matters, the sixty five million. Are you one

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Speaker 1: of those people you said we should have gone with

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Speaker 1: the three or four billion dollar project that the government cancel.

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Speaker 2: Look, yes and no, yes and no yes. For the boats,

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Speaker 2: the boats were a steel at five hundred and sixty

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Speaker 2: million for the pair. It's really the landside infrastructure which

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Speaker 2: was just going out of hand, and I agree with that.

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Speaker 2: Part of what the government's decision was was to cancel that.

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Speaker 2: They could have upgraded the existing infrastructure. However, canceling those boats.

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Speaker 2: They were a steel and we simply cannot get even

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Speaker 2: a used Corolla that's that's usable on that cook straight

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Speaker 2: for those sort of prices.

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Speaker 1: I'm glad you said that. We talked to the unions

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Speaker 1: earlier on and we came to the same agreement. So

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Speaker 1: the inside was the problem. Get the fairies. If you

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Speaker 1: can get some decent feries, that solves our problem for now,

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Speaker 1: because rightly or wrong that we just don't have three

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Speaker 1: billion dollars.

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Speaker 2: That's right, that's right, So we've missed. Oh look, I

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Speaker 2: hope the government could renegotiate with HYLANDI right now and

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Speaker 2: just say yes, maybe we're going to have to pay

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Speaker 2: an extra one hundred million penalty, which still would be

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Speaker 2: the cheapest option, would go back and get the fairies

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Speaker 2: back on construction.

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Speaker 1: Exactly because it's getting embarrassing, isn't it with the fairies

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Speaker 1: in the seven five to seven this week, which is

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Speaker 1: a yeah you could we look third world?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Well the seven five sevens, right, they actually typify

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Speaker 2: the same issue with the Entirelanders, except it's easier to

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Speaker 2: replace the seven five sevens than it is the Entirelanders.

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Speaker 2: And New Zealand's global image, specially tourism, is tarnished with

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Speaker 2: very bad and Thailand ferries.

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Speaker 1: And of course it's directly linked with tourism as well,

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Speaker 1: and enjoy trip next week, John, appreciate your time very much,

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Speaker 1: John Reeves, Public Transport Users Association National Coordinator, Twenty minutes

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