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Speaker 1: So your hand up. If you have ever had a

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Speaker 1: bus suddenly pull out in front of your car while

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Speaker 1: you're driving along the minding your own beeswax. It's a

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Speaker 1: stupid thing to say because I can't see your hand, obviously,

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Speaker 1: but I'm assuming you are putting your hand in the

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Speaker 1: air right now. It's happened to everyone. They're quite long things,

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Speaker 1: aren't they busses, So you can be halfway past one

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Speaker 1: when they pull out all of a sudden you're slamming

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Speaker 1: on your brakes, or worse, more dangerous, they're pushing you

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Speaker 1: into the wrong lane into oncoming traffic. Now I don't

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Speaker 1: mind admitting that, until this morning, I had assumed that

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Speaker 1: buses must have had the right of way. You know,

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Speaker 1: they quite take no prisoners, have no mercy, ruthless as

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Speaker 1: the Abs against the French at the Cake ten on

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Speaker 1: Saturday night. But I was reading an article this morning

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Speaker 1: from the spin Off about a bunch of changes to

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Speaker 1: road rules that Chris Bishop is going to an Act,

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Speaker 1: wants to an Act. One of them is giving buses

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Speaker 1: right of way when they're exiting bus stops, so if

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Speaker 1: you're driving a car, you must give way yield. The

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Speaker 1: theory is buses carry more passengers. If we prioritize buses,

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Speaker 1: more people get them, productivity increases, blah blah blah. And

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Speaker 1: you know what, I can understand that. In fact, I

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Speaker 1: can get on board with that. It makes sense. I

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Speaker 1: sort of thought it was the rule anyway, so I'm

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Speaker 1: not really that bothered by it, to be honest with you.

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Speaker 1: It's out for consultation that by the way. But if

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Speaker 1: we motorists are going to do something nice for the buses,

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Speaker 1: then I want something in return. I want those stupid

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Speaker 1: green bus lanes that sit empty for most of the

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Speaker 1: day is the traffic piles up around I want them back.

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Speaker 1: I want those bus lanes back for US car users.

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Speaker 1: I want us to reclaim the road for people who

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Speaker 1: are actually using it at the time that they're using it.

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Speaker 1: I understand the need for the rush hour, you know,

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Speaker 1: the peak hour bus lanes, but I don't understand why

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Speaker 1: they must be bus lanes twenty four to seven when

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Speaker 1: they're one not being used by bus and two causing

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Speaker 1: massive delays inconvenience and lost productivity to everybody else on

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Speaker 1: the road. The default position is that bus lanes are

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Speaker 1: twenty four to seven unless they're signposted otherwise, And the

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Speaker 1: one in particular that really rips mine is in Central Auckland,

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Speaker 1: and most of them there are at twenty four to seven.

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Speaker 1: So I to know, is this just me? Does anybody

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Speaker 1: else have this problem? Or am I just another selfish

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Speaker 1: motorist fuming in midday traffic. For more from Heather Duplessy

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