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Speaker 1: Wellington. Wellington City Council is coppying it, yes again, for

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Speaker 1: spending too much money on something people don't need. It's

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Speaker 1: eighty four thousand dollars they've spent on a bike crack

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Speaker 1: that hardly anyone's using. They've put this thing outside Frieburg

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Speaker 1: Pool and Oriental Bay. It's been there since last year

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Speaker 1: and even though it can fit twenty four bikes at

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Speaker 1: a time, on average only two point seven bikes are

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Speaker 1: using the thing every week now. Richard Martin is a

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Speaker 1: long time Wellington cyclist. It did some detective work when

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Speaker 1: he noticed the mostly empty rack and he's.

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Speaker 2: With us now.

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Speaker 1: A Richard, Hello, why do you decide to look into it?

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Speaker 2: Of course I've walked past it so often and don't

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Speaker 2: see anything in it. It's a very fancy bike crack.

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Speaker 2: It's a Rolls Royce bike crack, and I thought, well,

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Speaker 2: to spend that much money on it, why isn't it

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Speaker 2: being used?

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Speaker 1: Why do you think no one's using it?

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Speaker 2: I didn't think there's a need for it. Frankly, I

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Speaker 2: think that places out in the front of the Frieboog

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Speaker 2: Pool to put your bikes. There's other racks on the

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Speaker 2: footpath outside the pool, and they're often not for Richie.

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Speaker 1: Can you explain something to me because looking at it

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Speaker 1: in the photographs it looks like you have to sort

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Speaker 1: of hoist your bike up to be able to put

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Speaker 1: it in there. Is that how it works?

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Speaker 2: Well, it's yes, it's quind of expensive because it's quite

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Speaker 2: a marvel of engineering. It's all spring loaded, so you

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Speaker 2: pull the racks out and they're spring loaded. You pull

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Speaker 2: it down, you put your bike in, it goes back

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Speaker 2: up again. You know, I'm thinking that they could have

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Speaker 2: used two inch galvanized pipe bend in the U shape

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Speaker 2: and put in the ground with a bit of concrete

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Speaker 2: for the same number of racks, for five grand, not

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Speaker 2: eighty four grand.

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Speaker 1: They reckon at the council that the problem is that

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Speaker 1: you've busted them in the middle of winter, right, and

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Speaker 1: nobody really wants to cycle in winter. But come some

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Speaker 1: of the things going to be full. What do you reckon?

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Speaker 2: I think that's a real hearing. The other day it

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Speaker 2: was a lovely weekend summer's day in Wilmington that do happen,

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Speaker 2: and there were lots of people walking up and down

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Speaker 2: the parade, bikes everywhere, and it was still empty.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, waste of money. I Richard, it's a pussy that

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Speaker 1: they waste your money like this.

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Speaker 2: Well, I mean we're facing seventeen percent rate rises and

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Speaker 2: we're also being told that, you know, you may have

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Speaker 2: to conserve water next summer Forgosta pipes. Sorely, and the

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Speaker 2: council go and spend eighty four grand I'm not sure

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Speaker 2: they use that money to fix the leaks. Yep.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you should be on council, you should be the

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Speaker 1: mayor actually with such common sense, Richard, Thank you, Richard Martin,

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Speaker 1: longtime Wellington cyclist Geez Wellington. Yeah, honest and get you

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