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Speaker 1: So another crack this morning in Auckland. It's sorting other

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Speaker 1: mess out that is the road cone policy Mayor's Commission

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Speaker 1: to report. The report found contractors have little incentive to

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Speaker 1: work cheaper or faster. Existing rules and regulations centervice contractors

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Speaker 1: in fact to cause maximum disruption for maximum profits. So

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Speaker 1: they're very good at what they do. As it turns out,

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Speaker 1: Wayne Brown's with us morning to you.

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Speaker 2: Good morning.

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Speaker 1: Why can't you guys get on top of this. Why

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Speaker 1: can't you just issue a couple of instructions, we pay

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Speaker 1: the bills, you'll do as I say that in.

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Speaker 2: Well, that's a very good question, and I asked that

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Speaker 2: about eighteen months ago. And the culture have over safety

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Speaker 2: is everywhere in New Zealand, and these particular particular industry

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Speaker 2: is exploiting it to the maximum. And it turns out,

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Speaker 2: you know, I've given direction to at to start reducing it,

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Speaker 2: and they've made it some efforts. They had made some money,

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Speaker 2: save some money, but I'll start charging It turns out

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Speaker 2: there's a whole stack of rules and the regulations that

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Speaker 2: get in the road of all that. You know, it's

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Speaker 2: another case of when we're in passing rules of that

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Speaker 2: really understanding the ex.

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Speaker 1: That was my next question. So they are following Wellington's rule.

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Speaker 1: So Wellington need to do something about is that fair?

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Speaker 2: Well, that's what usually Evans been. In this case, I've

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Speaker 2: written I've commissioner report because if if I raise it

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Speaker 2: there what happens is an mot or commissioner report, and

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Speaker 2: several years later something will happen. So well commissioner report.

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Speaker 2: It's co quite clearly what has to change. I'm going

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Speaker 2: to the government. Just do this, not another report, just

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Speaker 2: do this right. And it's not just a waste of

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Speaker 2: money and the fact that it's not saving any lives.

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Speaker 2: It's annoying. Everybody causes people to behave badly. Any feed

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Speaker 2: up going fives now behind one of those.

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Speaker 1: Trucks, Brown, they are the most those guys who run

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Speaker 1: those trucks with the arrows are the most arrogant people

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Speaker 1: on the road in my forty five years of driving. Anyway,

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Speaker 1: be that as it may, iss Sime and Brown on

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Speaker 1: your side. He seems a reasonable bloke who wants to

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Speaker 1: crack down.

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Speaker 2: Oh he is, and he's picking up on a lot

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Speaker 2: of things that I'm doing. And if he wants to

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Speaker 2: fix this and become popular and that's fine with me.

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Speaker 2: But it's a thing that I've been on ever since

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Speaker 2: I've got on the door. Not only is a waste

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Speaker 2: of money and annoying to everybody, but in some cases

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Speaker 2: it's quite dangerous. If we've got a lot of rural

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Speaker 2: roads in Auckland as well, and you have to go

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Speaker 2: down those and every so often there's a set of

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Speaker 2: cones sitting there with a sign saying thirty k which

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Speaker 2: everybody ignores and because there's nothing happening, and then eventually

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Speaker 2: you come to one who there is a hole in

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Speaker 2: the road and there's an accident exactly because the cone

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Speaker 2: companies are crying wolf and they're making good money out

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Speaker 2: of it, and it's really annoying. It goes along with

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Speaker 2: my campaign against these stupid seismic RvEs with another cost

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Speaker 2: and burden on Orkland for something that doesn't happen. Either.

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Speaker 1: You're going to have to get the sorted by next

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Speaker 1: year when the election campaign comes around, because you can't

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Speaker 1: spend the whole time moaning for three years and then

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Speaker 1: going back to the people saying I'm still more vote

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Speaker 1: for me again, because that's not going to work for you,

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Speaker 1: is it.

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Speaker 2: Well, that's not what I set out to do. There's

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Speaker 2: no other worries about so I've commissioned the report. It

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Speaker 2: doesn't need another report.

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Speaker 1: It just do this right. Change these rules. Well, let's

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Speaker 1: get on it. Let's get on with it sooner rather

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Speaker 1: than later. Appreciate it very much. Wayne brown Auckland's meal

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