1 00:00:00,360 --> 00:00:01,880 Speaker 1: Yeah. So, as I told you before, the Greens have 2 00:00:01,920 --> 00:00:04,600 Speaker 1: been busted asking to use the private car parks of 3 00:00:04,600 --> 00:00:08,200 Speaker 1: some Wellington retailers for a party in Wellington, which is 4 00:00:08,240 --> 00:00:10,760 Speaker 1: so hypocritical because they were the ones who took the 5 00:00:10,800 --> 00:00:12,200 Speaker 1: car parking away so they could build one of their 6 00:00:12,200 --> 00:00:15,720 Speaker 1: favorite little cycle ways in the area. Right. Irmila Barner 7 00:00:16,000 --> 00:00:18,840 Speaker 1: is the chairwoman of the Independent Business and Residential Group. 8 00:00:18,920 --> 00:00:22,200 Speaker 1: And for the record, not the Greengrocer, but the. 9 00:00:22,160 --> 00:00:25,640 Speaker 2: What Irmina, the general Grocer, the General. 10 00:00:25,280 --> 00:00:27,760 Speaker 1: Grosser, because the greenngrocer is on side with the Greens? 11 00:00:27,800 --> 00:00:28,240 Speaker 1: Am I right? 12 00:00:28,760 --> 00:00:29,240 Speaker 2: Mm hmm? 13 00:00:29,440 --> 00:00:31,880 Speaker 1: And not you though, no? Why not? 14 00:00:33,360 --> 00:00:37,240 Speaker 2: I guess I have a Shakespearean relationship with these cycle lanes. 15 00:00:38,080 --> 00:00:39,599 Speaker 1: Why do you call it Shakespearean? 16 00:00:40,440 --> 00:00:44,479 Speaker 2: Well? How much do I love thee I mean, you know, 17 00:00:44,920 --> 00:00:48,120 Speaker 2: we've got a spectrum out here which is pretty dire. 18 00:00:48,440 --> 00:00:52,920 Speaker 2: Businesses are down sixty eighty one hundred percent. They're either moving, closing, 19 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:56,480 Speaker 2: or heading into liquidation. And that's nothing to do with recession. 20 00:00:56,600 --> 00:01:00,320 Speaker 2: It's the car park remover and you sort of like low. 21 00:01:00,920 --> 00:01:03,240 Speaker 1: How do you know though, because I mean, like I 22 00:01:04,400 --> 00:01:06,440 Speaker 1: it's difficult for everybody, right, So how do you know 23 00:01:06,480 --> 00:01:08,520 Speaker 1: that it's the cycle way doing it well. 24 00:01:08,560 --> 00:01:11,720 Speaker 2: In new Town, we were ahead of the pack. Went 25 00:01:11,800 --> 00:01:15,760 Speaker 2: in two years ago and businesses were already reporting that 26 00:01:15,920 --> 00:01:20,399 Speaker 2: dire situation. The Newtown's been that the cycle aid's been planted, 27 00:01:20,640 --> 00:01:24,720 Speaker 2: the parks have been removed. It's a ghost town. Like 28 00:01:24,880 --> 00:01:27,160 Speaker 2: you know, the uber drivers don't like getting into hospital 29 00:01:27,240 --> 00:01:29,319 Speaker 2: because there's fucking traffic to try and get here. So 30 00:01:29,360 --> 00:01:32,480 Speaker 2: the meals that are going out to the poor residences 31 00:01:32,480 --> 00:01:36,160 Speaker 2: that want to eat are cold. What did you think that? 32 00:01:36,360 --> 00:01:38,680 Speaker 1: Yeah? What did you think when you heard that TAMOTHA. 33 00:01:38,720 --> 00:01:41,560 Speaker 1: Paul and Julian Jenis staff has been going around asking 34 00:01:41,600 --> 00:01:43,640 Speaker 1: to use private car parks have affected businesses? 35 00:01:44,920 --> 00:01:48,120 Speaker 2: What did I think? Well, you know, what do they 36 00:01:48,120 --> 00:01:51,680 Speaker 2: say about hypocrisy? There's no forgiveness for that sort of evil? 37 00:01:51,800 --> 00:01:53,400 Speaker 2: Is there really quite right? 38 00:01:53,720 --> 00:01:56,040 Speaker 1: Do you know anything about this situation? Because I had 39 00:01:56,080 --> 00:01:58,960 Speaker 1: heard that they had asked this office had asked for 40 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:01,280 Speaker 1: the council to read designated a couple of car parks 41 00:02:01,320 --> 00:02:03,560 Speaker 1: around the corner from their office, to make them shorter 42 00:02:03,680 --> 00:02:05,640 Speaker 1: terms so that their visitors could use them. Did you 43 00:02:05,720 --> 00:02:06,240 Speaker 1: hear about that? 44 00:02:07,360 --> 00:02:10,440 Speaker 2: Well, rumor has it that during a break at the 45 00:02:10,520 --> 00:02:14,800 Speaker 2: Regulatory Process meeting, on the eighteenth of April, Jordie Rodgers 46 00:02:15,160 --> 00:02:19,359 Speaker 2: was speaking to the senior Wellington City Council offices with 47 00:02:19,639 --> 00:02:24,200 Speaker 2: the current Green Deputy Mayor, Lourie Boone about parking for 48 00:02:24,280 --> 00:02:27,440 Speaker 2: the Green MPs on King Street and King Streets, the 49 00:02:27,560 --> 00:02:32,480 Speaker 2: side street of Adelaide Road. So we're all sitting here 50 00:02:32,520 --> 00:02:37,320 Speaker 2: in Newtown as residents. There's business owners outpatients, hospital workers 51 00:02:37,320 --> 00:02:40,760 Speaker 2: thinking well, hang on, we can't get to work because 52 00:02:40,800 --> 00:02:43,440 Speaker 2: of you. We can't get to the hospital because of you. 53 00:02:43,760 --> 00:02:45,960 Speaker 2: We can't get to the businesses we like when we 54 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:49,720 Speaker 2: want to because of you. So this whole thing is 55 00:02:50,160 --> 00:02:54,799 Speaker 2: hypocritical and underscored with a golden pen. Ridiculous. 56 00:02:55,040 --> 00:02:56,440 Speaker 1: Was that the eighteenth of April? Was it? 57 00:02:57,040 --> 00:02:59,720 Speaker 2: Apparently? So it's the rumor. So I've chased it up 58 00:02:59,760 --> 00:03:03,280 Speaker 2: with one of the senior counselors, so hopefully we'll get 59 00:03:03,280 --> 00:03:04,200 Speaker 2: a response shortly. 60 00:03:04,639 --> 00:03:06,760 Speaker 1: Irmla, thank you very much and best of luck fighting 61 00:03:06,800 --> 00:03:09,680 Speaker 1: this absolutely brain dead situation. That's Irmla Barner, the chairwoman 62 00:03:09,720 --> 00:03:12,040 Speaker 1: of the Independent Business and Residential Group. I'll just remind you. 63 00:03:12,560 --> 00:03:16,880 Speaker 1: So the conversation happens between Jordie and Laurie on the 64 00:03:16,960 --> 00:03:19,800 Speaker 1: eighteenth of April at the regulatory meeting. But what did 65 00:03:19,800 --> 00:03:21,920 Speaker 1: the Greens say to me in the statement. There have 66 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:24,359 Speaker 1: been no formal discussions with the council in regards to 67 00:03:24,480 --> 00:03:27,480 Speaker 1: using parking on King Street. No formal discussions, but the 68 00:03:27,520 --> 00:03:28,760 Speaker 1: informal ones they work though. 69 00:03:28,840 --> 00:03:32,000 Speaker 2: Ay for more from Heather Duplassy Allen Drive. 70 00:03:32,160 --> 00:03:35,520 Speaker 1: Listen live to news talks that'd be from four pm weekdays, 71 00:03:35,680 --> 00:03:37,840 Speaker 1: or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.