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Speaker 1: First of the seventeen major roading projects is underway. Roads

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Speaker 1: of National Significance, or RONS as they were calling them

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Speaker 1: yesterday in the post cab press conference. RONS the hawks

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Speaker 1: By Expressways the first cab off the rank, with work

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Speaker 1: being brought forward at least twelve months twenty nine thousand

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Speaker 1: vehicles a day. It's going to go from two to

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Speaker 1: four lanes. The hawks Bay Chamber of Commerce CEO Calor

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Speaker 1: leeds with us Carlam.

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Speaker 2: Morning, Good morning, Mike. How are you very well?

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Speaker 1: Indeed? I love a road. Do you love a road?

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Speaker 2: I do love a road.

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Speaker 1: I've driven. There's one north of Auckland. Have you driven

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Speaker 1: the north of Auckland to pooh hooy? The new road there?

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Speaker 1: The Road of National Significance? Or no?

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Speaker 2: I haven't.

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Speaker 1: No, it's life changing, believing it is. It's literally you're

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Speaker 1: on that road and you're thinking, God, I wish we'd

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Speaker 1: done this twenty years ago. My life is so much

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Speaker 1: easier because of it. That's what you're in for in

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Speaker 1: the hawks Bay.

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Speaker 2: Oh, I can't wait.

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Speaker 1: It's exciting. What's the vibe in the area.

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Speaker 2: Oh, we are all very excited about this road going.

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Speaker 2: And this has been a really long time coming and

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Speaker 2: it has been hard going through that expressway. I personally

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Speaker 2: drive it every single day, so it's going to make

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Speaker 2: a massive difference to many many people in the region.

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Speaker 1: For people who have not been on it. When they

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Speaker 1: call it an expressway, is it express is it a

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Speaker 1: good road as it stands? Or passed? Its use by?

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Speaker 2: No pass its use by? It is not an expressway

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Speaker 2: at all. That word should not be used for that road.

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Speaker 2: It is quite the opposite, especially at peak times, and

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Speaker 2: it's been like that for a long time, but considerably

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Speaker 2: worse than cyclone Gabriel.

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Speaker 1: I was going to say, so unique set of circumstances

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Speaker 1: in your particular part of the world. Is the Gabriel

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Speaker 1: experience reminded you of the value of good efficient roading.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, we were reminded that we aren't as resilient as

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Speaker 2: we should be, and we need to improve that so

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Speaker 2: that we're never in that position ever.

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Speaker 1: Again, what sort of use is the road getting for

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Speaker 1: people who have not used it? Is this will improve

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Speaker 1: mainly for trucks and transport that sort of thing, or

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Speaker 1: is it a commuter bit of roadway as well?

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Speaker 2: It's both. It actually spans across many things, so a

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Speaker 2: lot of tracks come through there to go to our port,

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Speaker 2: which is incredibly important for our freight, but our commuters

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Speaker 2: that go between Napier and Hastings every single day is.

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Speaker 1: Huge, fantastic. What's the vibe and the bay given I've

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Speaker 1: got you, Oh.

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Speaker 2: The vibe in the Bay. We are really looking forward

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Speaker 2: to summer good, So it's here, it's not pretending to

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Speaker 2: be here. Obviously. We come from a primary industry region

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Speaker 2: that we're growing our crops is incredibly important. So the

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Speaker 2: summer's coming out and things are looking really good for

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Speaker 2: Hawks Bay and this news is exactly what we need

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Speaker 2: going into summer.

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Speaker 1: Very good to hear. Karla go well with a Karla Lee,

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Speaker 1: who is the Hawks Bay Chamber of Commerce CEO. For

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