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Speaker 1: Now it's a couple of bits of big news for Auckland.

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Speaker 1: Number One, the government has announced a plan to clean

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Speaker 1: up the city. Number Two, the CRL, the train set

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Speaker 1: underneath the city, has now confirmed is opening at the

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Speaker 1: end of next year. Viv Beck is the heart of

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Speaker 1: the city CEO and with us now, hey, Viv hello,

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Speaker 1: is end of next year? What we were expecting?

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Speaker 2: Oh gosh, Well, we always hoped it would be earlier.

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Speaker 2: I had sort of come to a view that it

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Speaker 2: was going to be around I hoped around the midyear.

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Speaker 2: The biggest issue is the uncertainty for these poor businesses

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Speaker 2: that have been affected for a decade and that's a

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Speaker 2: very long time still for them to carry on. And

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Speaker 2: obviously we want to get moving so people can get

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Speaker 2: in here easier and faster. So on the one hand,

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Speaker 2: it's good to have some sort of indication of when

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Speaker 2: it's going to be, but I think there'll be people

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Speaker 2: pretty disappointed it so far away.

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Speaker 1: Okay, viv on this tidy up of the city. What

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Speaker 1: is actually going to happen yet? We haven't got you know,

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Speaker 1: move on orders or anything. What's actually changing.

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Speaker 2: Well, many of the things we've been asking for have

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Speaker 2: come to pass here. So we've wanted to have a

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Speaker 2: cross agency approach to deal with both the social issues

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Speaker 2: and sort of the economic issues, and we've wanted it

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Speaker 2: to be at a very senior level, recognizing the importance

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Speaker 2: coming out of this decade of disruption that we really

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Speaker 2: need to move into twenty twenty six in a very

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Speaker 2: good place. And I think we've got that. It is

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Speaker 2: a sort of multifaceted thing. It picks up on the

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Speaker 2: social needs, the people crying out for laws and by

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Speaker 2: laws to be enforced. They want to see a focus

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Speaker 2: on cleaning and presentation, so it actually picks up quite

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Speaker 2: a lot of the things that we've been asking for

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Speaker 2: and that businesses have been crying out for. The proof

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Speaker 2: will be in the pudding, but there is a determination.

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Speaker 2: We've definitely got the point across that we need to have.

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Speaker 2: This has to be a game changer. We've got to

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Speaker 2: have change this side of Christmas so that we go

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Speaker 2: into the opening of the Convention Center in a good place.

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Speaker 1: Viv thanks very much. Look after yourself with Beck Heart

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Speaker 1: of the City CEO.

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