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Speaker 1: Now speaking of driving. Driving on beaches is back in

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Speaker 1: the spotlight after an Auckland Council review found efforts to

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Speaker 1: improve driving safety on beaches are failing. Get a load

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Speaker 1: of this. Last year to drive on Murdauai three thy

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Speaker 1: six hundred cars had a permit. Fifteen thousand, six hundred

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Speaker 1: hit the beach. Claire bat Bradley is the Muduay Community

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Speaker 1: Association chair with US Now Hey, Claire Hi. Obviously a

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Speaker 1: permit means absolutely nothing, does it well?

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Speaker 2: And look, it was never intended to be a solution.

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Speaker 2: And what this report from Council is addressing is a

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Speaker 2: better legislative framework. It doesn't address the larger question of

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Speaker 2: whether it's even appropriate for vehicles to be driving on

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Speaker 2: the beach solely for recreational purposes. The only reason given

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Speaker 2: in the report is in historic use. But when you

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Speaker 2: think about historic use, it's slower moving, lighter vehicles and

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Speaker 2: fewer of them. Not somewhere between one to two million

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Speaker 2: people visiting the beach and sharing the space with large, heavy,

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Speaker 2: four wheel drive vehicles driven at speed because their vehicle

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Speaker 2: access is just you know, somewhere around two kilometers from

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Speaker 2: the main beach on Mruway, So it is very much

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Speaker 2: a shared pedestrian face, right, So yeah, two pedestrians is huge.

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Speaker 1: But if you look at the data, I mean, it

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Speaker 1: looks like in the Regional Parks incident data, which it's

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Speaker 1: total Regional Parks incident data, so presumably that's more than

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Speaker 1: just Murdaway Beach only forty eight incidents last year. If

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Speaker 1: I was to say that all forty eight happened on

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Speaker 1: Mudaway Beach out of sixteen nearly sixteen thousand vehicles, that's

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Speaker 1: an incident rate of zero point three percent. That's not a.

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Speaker 2: Lot, no exactly. But when you look at it, there's

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Speaker 2: sixty five percent of the incidents took place on Muruway

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Speaker 2: Beach out of three hundred and fifty seven. That's not

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Speaker 2: just last year, that's over a longer period, and so

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Speaker 2: Muruway is unfortunately at the point the end of this.

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Speaker 2: But it's I mean, you know, if you look at

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Speaker 2: it on balance, you have to balance the recreational use

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Speaker 2: just to go and drive up the beach and get

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Speaker 2: maybe further away and do your fishing in greater seclusion

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Speaker 2: and solitude against the safety and the security of the

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Speaker 2: ecology and the wild life, the safety of shared users,

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Speaker 2: I mean, we wouldn't contemplate having a shared pedestrian space

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Speaker 2: where vehicles can be going, you know, sixty plus miles

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Speaker 2: an hour on an unstable surface, where there are people

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Speaker 2: having picnics and trying to go through this.

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Speaker 1: Wo No, you slow them right down, don't you. Claire listen,

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Speaker 1: I really appreciate it. Thank you. I hope you get

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Speaker 1: to the bond of that one. That's clear. Bradley Murderuhy

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