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Speaker 1: So speed change coming to a lot of roads. Now,

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Speaker 1: you were also looking at the possibility now of one

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Speaker 1: hundred and twenty k's on the roads of national significant

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Speaker 1: The road safety advocate Greg Murphy back with us on

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Speaker 1: this Greg Morning Morning.

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Speaker 2: Mike.

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Speaker 1: Are you broadly in support of this? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Absolutely. I mean there was a lot of changes that

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Speaker 2: were made that we need your reactions by little informed

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Speaker 2: people that just decided that there was a we'll just

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Speaker 2: drop the speeds everywhere and we'll save a whole lot

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Speaker 2: of lives, which didn't happen. It annoyed a lot of

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Speaker 2: New Zealanders with the lack of consultation. Decisions that were

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Speaker 2: made with actually without consultation, and there was sort of

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Speaker 2: lots of damage that was done in that space, and

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Speaker 2: there was a lot of unnecessary changes that were made.

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Speaker 2: I believe that there is need for some change, and

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Speaker 2: I think this government realizes that. And there's around school

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Speaker 2: and the lights and and pieces. But there was a

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Speaker 2: lot of speed changes that were made that were unnecessary

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Speaker 2: and certainly weren't justified.

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Speaker 1: When you use the word consultation, you reckon. If you

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Speaker 1: pold New Zealand as they'd back you broadly on the

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Speaker 1: sort of thing change that has come.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so absolutely. You know, I think I know,

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Speaker 2: for example, there's that there was the road state Higway

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Speaker 2: FI between Napi and Toepaul. It was put down to

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Speaker 2: eighty ks an hour, and the decisions were made, and

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Speaker 2: then the consultation papers came out and we all consulted

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Speaker 2: and put in submissions and found out later on that

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Speaker 2: decision was already made. It was a waste of everyone's time.

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Speaker 2: So you know, there was there was definitely stuff going

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Speaker 2: on there that it angered a lot of the community.

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Speaker 2: There was a lot of people that submitted around that,

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Speaker 2: and it was a vast majority saying leave them, leave

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Speaker 2: that speed alone. We need to do other things to

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Speaker 2: ensure better safety. But in CTA ignored that and went

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Speaker 2: ahead anyway. So you know, I think that, as I said,

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Speaker 2: there's a need to look at speeds in certain areas

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Speaker 2: around schools, for example, having variable speed limits. I think

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Speaker 2: the great idea should have been done to start with.

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Speaker 2: I mean, you don't want to be doing thirty k

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Speaker 2: through somewhere on weekend when there's no one around. So

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Speaker 2: you know, those kinds of things needed better work. And

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Speaker 2: I agree with the words that David Seymour said in

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Speaker 2: the release as well, around these kinds of things being

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Speaker 2: made that just annoy New Zealanders for no reason and

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Speaker 2: we need to do a better job of it.

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Speaker 1: Very well said. You have a good weekend, appreciate it,

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Speaker 1: and you will have a good weekend because Supercows is

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Speaker 1: on again. Greg Murphy motor sport champion of course, road

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