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Speaker 1: Forgiven do for cl now.

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Speaker 2: Three Wellington City councilors have walked out of a council

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Speaker 2: vote on those controversial raised pedestrian crossings. They were supposed

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Speaker 2: to decide whether to reduce the number of raised crossings

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Speaker 2: on Thorndon Key from five to two, but some of

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Speaker 2: the councilors didn't like it, including Ben McNulty who walked out.

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Speaker 2: I just feel fundamentally uncomfortable about playing role of traffic engineer,

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Speaker 2: so I'm going to leave the room. And Diane Calvert

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Speaker 2: was another one of the three who walked out, is

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Speaker 2: with us. Now, hey Diane, Diane, huh hi, Heather, why

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Speaker 2: do you walk out?

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Speaker 1: Well, we've already pried to move an amendment saying, look,

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Speaker 1: we don't have enough information to make a decision. As

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Speaker 1: Band pointed out, we are not traffic engineers, and there

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Speaker 1: was seemed to be a bit of a beguty and

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Speaker 1: beerguty sorry from m ZTA. So we said, look, we

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Speaker 1: don't have enough information to make a decision, and we

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Speaker 1: wanted to, you know, sort of wait a couple of

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Speaker 1: weeks till we could get that information. That was rejected

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Speaker 1: and the chairperson had to have a casting vote because

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Speaker 1: we were fifty to fifty and so basically that was rejected.

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Speaker 1: That was voted down. So then we came to the

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Speaker 1: main vote, which is basically just going to go ahead.

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Speaker 1: And you know, at the end of the day, we

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Speaker 1: had these recommendations put in front of us and we

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Speaker 1: just didn't have the information. And on our councy, you've

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Speaker 1: either got to vote yes, no or walk out the room.

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Speaker 2: Diane, is that is the answer? Not obvious that you

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Speaker 2: have to vote down, Like the fewer of these raised

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Speaker 2: crossings you have, the better, because just the other day

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Speaker 2: you had emergency services unable to get to somebody having

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Speaker 2: a heart attack fast enough because they had too many

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Speaker 2: of these things. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, when we don't need them, we don't need them.

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Speaker 1: But the council's proposal was, well, since m ZTA aren't

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Speaker 1: funding them, we can at least do half of them.

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Speaker 1: And and it's wrong based.

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Speaker 2: On are you like zero raiseds crossings?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I said that none of them have been proven

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Speaker 1: to be you know, and if MZTA aren't funding any

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Speaker 1: of them, I mean that's got to tell you something.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, true, So what's the outcome? What happened today? What

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Speaker 2: was the vote then?

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Speaker 1: So basically it was, it was, it was all. It

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Speaker 1: was all pretty much predetermined because once they voted down

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Speaker 1: our amendment, which is basically go back, give them information

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Speaker 1: for men's ata, talk to the local businesses about, you know,

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Speaker 1: about what they actually wanted and becoss seeing that road

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Speaker 1: every day. But no, that was rejected, but it was.

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Speaker 1: It was reloodly lost by the chair having to do

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Speaker 1: a casting vote. So the chair basically got two votes

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Speaker 1: and everyone else cut one, so we lost that one.

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Speaker 1: So it was basically going to go before you know.

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Speaker 1: The final vote was basically it was. It was a

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Speaker 1: done deal. And if we stayed in the room, yes,

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Speaker 1: the chair would have had to use their casting voted game.

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Speaker 1: But a good decision for something like this, it's not

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Speaker 1: fifty to fifty, as I said afterwards, we should get

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Speaker 1: consensus on something like it, or at least seventy five.

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Speaker 2: I just need you, I just need you to do

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Speaker 2: a little bit of a little bit of like inside

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Speaker 2: work for me. There's some controversy about it's windy and

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Speaker 2: Wellington today, is it.

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Speaker 1: No, it's not. In fact, it's quite still. It's a

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Speaker 1: bit great, but no, it's very still.

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Speaker 2: Okay, Diane, thank you very much. You go there, there,

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Speaker 2: you go Still in Wellington, Diane Calvert, Wellington City councilor

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