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Speaker 1: Come on in to yourt Director Peter ALVIDI.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Geene. How are you.

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Speaker 1: I'm good and I hope you're good too. I hope

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Speaker 1: whatever it is that you know. I take a deep

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Speaker 1: breath and it's whatever it is is over, at least

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Speaker 1: at least in personal life and things like that. There's

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Speaker 1: still the court case. But go ahead. I know you

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Speaker 1: want to speak. You've been listening to the chorus of complainers.

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Speaker 1: Go ahead, you have the floor.

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Speaker 2: Peter, Yeah, you know. I think you know that. I

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Speaker 2: Over the last ten years i've been on here, there's

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Speaker 2: been a lot of bs thrown around by people who

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Speaker 2: don't know what they're talking about. Never built a bridge

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Speaker 2: in their lives. But here's what's happening. I'm retiring from

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Speaker 2: my position as a Director of Rhode Island Department of Transportation.

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Speaker 2: I have to say it's been an honor for me

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Speaker 2: the past eleven years to serve the state, the state

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Speaker 2: I was born in, in the people who live in it.

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Speaker 2: Serving as director has been the pinnacle of my career

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Speaker 2: as an engineer. I worked sixty years to reach this

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Speaker 2: point in my life, beginning with taking on three jobs

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Speaker 2: to put myself to it with sal Academy, learning firsthand

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Speaker 2: what it meant to get my hands dirty as a

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Speaker 2: laborer on construction sites while I was paying my way

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Speaker 2: through college for two engineering degrees. All of that started

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Speaker 2: me on the path that led me to this position

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Speaker 2: and becoming the longest serving DOT director in the history

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Speaker 2: of the state. I haven't just enjoyed, I haven't just

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Speaker 2: enjoyed the challenges that the job brought me every day, Gene,

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Speaker 2: but I was happiest when I was seeing the progress

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Speaker 2: we were making, whether it was hearing people pleased to

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Speaker 2: be driving on on duly paved roads, attending the opening

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Speaker 2: of a train station, riding at the Bay on a

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Speaker 2: new ferry system, leaving my home at midnight sometimes to

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Speaker 2: watch a new bridge slide into place and open the

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Speaker 2: traffic in the morning, or seeing the completion of major

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Speaker 2: projects like six' ten The viaduct and three hundred and

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Speaker 2: fifty two other bridges throughout the. State i've witnessed the

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Speaker 2: success of The Ripple effect project that resulted in reducing

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Speaker 2: impaired driving accidents in the. State and, yes even listening

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Speaker 2: to the calls here on this show on the radio

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Speaker 2: Every thursday morning asking about a pothole or a traffic,

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Speaker 2: light or being gable to solve their problem reminded me

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Speaker 2: THAT i was doing WHAT i do best and enjoying

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Speaker 2: MOST i fix things. Now the most intense occurrence During

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Speaker 2: mile eleven years, was of, course the events surrounding the

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Speaker 2: closing of The Washington. Bridge BUT i did WHAT i always.

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Speaker 2: DO i cut out the. NOISE i did What i've

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Speaker 2: done by entire. CAREER i put my nose to the

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Speaker 2: grindstone to find an immediate solution for the people of

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Speaker 2: the state and keep them. SAFE i opened three lanes

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Speaker 2: eastbound to bypass the. PROBLEM i put in measures to

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Speaker 2: ensure that that bridge could safely handle the increased traffic.

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Speaker 2: LOAD i secured federal funds needed to fix, it AND

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Speaker 2: i signed a new contract with one of the top

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Speaker 2: bridge builders in the world to construct the, new state

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Speaker 2: of the art, bridge one that'll exceed all of our,

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Speaker 2: lifetimes and they'll do it on, time on. Budget this

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Speaker 2: was the result that countless hours of, work AND i

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Speaker 2: understood the gravity of the. SITUATION a contributing factor to

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Speaker 2: my decision to retire at this time is knowing that

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Speaker 2: that rebuilding is securely under. Way it's already started and

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Speaker 2: being thankful To god that no lives were. Lost in the,

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Speaker 2: meantime every move and every Decision i've. Made you, know

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Speaker 2: this over the last eleven years has had its detractors and,

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Speaker 2: Critics but you, Know, jean those moments were balanced by

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Speaker 2: countless interactions That i've had with people every day who

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Speaker 2: went out of their way to shake my hand in a,

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Speaker 2: store in a, market or a restaurant to, say we've

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Speaker 2: never seen this state make so much. Progress well to

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Speaker 2: those people that shook my, hand called into this radio,

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Speaker 2: program or sent a letter or, email please know how

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Speaker 2: greatly it was appreciated and how that motivated. Me this

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Speaker 2: has led me to this. Moment over the, Holidays kathy

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Speaker 2: AND i sat down and we discussed my retirement FROM.

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Speaker 2: Dot i've accomplished in the last eleven years WHAT i

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Speaker 2: set out to do eleven years. AGO i accepted this,

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Speaker 2: position AND i Know i'm leaving the department in a

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Speaker 2: far better condition than WHEN i found. IT i also

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Speaker 2: recognize the state is entering what will be a difficult

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Speaker 2: and acrimonious election. Season i've worked too hard to build

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Speaker 2: my reputation That i'm proud to allow my se And

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Speaker 2: i'm not going to be a political point in that.

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Speaker 2: Circus it's time to leave the department in the hands

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Speaker 2: of my, outstanding capable, staff from my, cabinet executive, office legal,

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Speaker 2: team and communications, staff, engineers project managers to the maintenance

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Speaker 2: workers who do the hardest work of all and have

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Speaker 2: never let me. Down so let me be absolutely, clear

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Speaker 2: so there's no misunderstanding about this. Decision i'm leaving on

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Speaker 2: my own, terms plain and. SIMPLE i understand that the

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Speaker 2: people will create all kinds of speculative, narratives and that

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Speaker 2: between now And, august politicians may try to use my

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Speaker 2: decision to advance their own egos or. Agendas but the

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Speaker 2: truth is pretty, Straightforward. Gene i've reached the point WHERE

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Speaker 2: i Feel i've given all That i'm willing to. Give

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Speaker 2: i'm proud of What i've, accomplished And kathy AND i

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Speaker 2: have decided together that this is the right time so

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Speaker 2: to be, AGAIN i was not, fired nor WAS i

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Speaker 2: asked to. Resign this decision has nothing to do with

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Speaker 2: what's going on with The Washington. Bridge As i've said just,

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Speaker 2: now that project's on. Autopilot i've put everything in place

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Speaker 2: in a CONTRACTOR i selected that's doing the work will

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Speaker 2: continue to build it as they have successfully for the

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Speaker 2: last hundred years of their. Existence my retirement FROM dot

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Speaker 2: was a decision made solely by my wife and me

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Speaker 2: rest assured, Though, Jeane i'll be paying close attention between

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Speaker 2: now And august to everything that's said publicly about, this

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Speaker 2: and if anyone lies or misrepresents the facts for personal,

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Speaker 2: gain they're going to be hearing from me. Forcefully this

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Speaker 2: has been quite an. Adventure you AND i have spent

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Speaker 2: most of it, together AND i wish the staff AT

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Speaker 2: dot continued. Success i'm counting on all of YOU dot

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Speaker 2: to continue the good work that we've started and we've,

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Speaker 2: done AND i pray To god that he blesses the

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Speaker 2: Sator Rhode island and it's, people and that he keeps them. Safe, peter.

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Speaker 1: You do deserve a right to have your. Say that's

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Speaker 1: WHY i like you do, that because you've been listening

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Speaker 1: to a. CHORUS i mean you've Been you took about five,

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Speaker 1: minutes but you've certainly taken a lot more than five

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Speaker 1: minutes of people bashing you and beating you. Up AND

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Speaker 1: i understand that just listening to, These, peter you sound

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Speaker 1: like you sound like you sound like you've been a

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Speaker 1: man who's been mistreated and wants to fire. Back that's

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Speaker 1: what you're sounding like to me this. Morning you feel

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Speaker 1: that you've been maligned in Mistreat, no now.

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Speaker 2: You know, Something, JEANS i think that's even that's a

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Speaker 2: misrepresentation by. You what you're hearing this morning is someone

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Speaker 2: other people's opinions and own. Egos what you're hearing is

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Speaker 2: direct from, me what the truth. Is that's all this,

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Speaker 2: is and that's all That i've ever done every day

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Speaker 2: That i've worked, here every day in my entire, career

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Speaker 2: in my. Life so now you know, something bitnerness is a.

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Speaker 2: Misrepresentation i'm really pleased with WHERE i. Am but As

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Speaker 2: i've always done on this, show and you know, it

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Speaker 2: and you've been and you've heard, me and you've seen

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Speaker 2: me do it over and over, again there are people

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Speaker 2: out there that are not doing the public good by

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Speaker 2: misrepresenting things that happens in. Politics people have come to accept, that,

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Speaker 2: WELL i don't accept that.

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Speaker 1: Misinterpreted my analysis is that listening to you anybody would feel.

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Speaker 1: Mistreated if you're if you've been the focus of two

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Speaker 1: years of relentless news coverage and, criticism you're going to

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Speaker 1: sound like a person who feels, mistreated and you want.

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Speaker 2: Your saying, no absolutely, not rather rather than rather than

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Speaker 2: go out that, WAY i want to let the people

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Speaker 2: know THAT i really APPRECIATE i really appreciate the work

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Speaker 2: i work. With i've enjoyed being on this show with.

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Speaker 2: You OH i, know, Yeah and as tough as it

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Speaker 2: talking to them. Directly so this today wasn't our. Grapes

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Speaker 2: it was me speaking directly to the people That i've

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Speaker 2: spoken with for the last ten years on your, Show, directly,

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Speaker 2: unfiltered a direct, conversation and sometimes that's the only way

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Speaker 2: i was happy to do that for ten, years regardless

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Speaker 2: of which way it, went and regardless of what kind

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Speaker 2: of criticisms are out. There that's all part of the.

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Speaker 2: JOB i, understand it's all part of a, job you.

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Speaker 1: Know let me just jump back in At. Peter, listen

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Speaker 1: we've mentioned many times you've never dougd. This you've come

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Speaker 1: on in good, times in bed Every. Thursday it's, unprecedented

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Speaker 1: kind of a leader of good it's un. Precedent we

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Speaker 1: do appreciate. That it's one of the post popular, shows

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Speaker 1: Not we've got the numbers to show. That But, PETER

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Speaker 1: Too anybody listening cannot dismiss. That a chorus of criticism

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Speaker 1: of every candidate calling for you to your, head this

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Speaker 1: is that had to be a factor in this some.

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Speaker 2: Way, no absolutely, Not, geane come, ON i mean you,

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Speaker 2: or two after me getting TO, dot there were various

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Speaker 2: Place it's. Successful it will pay the way and pay

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Speaker 2: for many more bridges in the future of the state

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Speaker 2: for all time to be fixed and maintained. Properly it

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Speaker 2: calling for me to be. Fired this position is like.

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Speaker 2: That if that were a, factor if people calling for

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Speaker 2: have happened a long time years.

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Speaker 3: Ago it.

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Speaker 2: DIDN'T i decided to put my nose to the grindstone

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Speaker 2: and cut out all of that. BOAT i cut it,

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Speaker 2: in order to get things. Done and the reason That

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Speaker 2: i'm leaving is that after sixty years and eleven years

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Speaker 2: of them AT, DOT i really feel that we've accomplished a.

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Speaker 2: Lot we've fixed pretty much all of the deficient bridges

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Speaker 2: in the state and it's. Time but that's our, decision

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Speaker 2: That's kathy and my. Decision.

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Speaker 1: PETER i got to remind you on the.

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Speaker 4: Radio oh, yeah, well, sorry you will give you as the,

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Speaker 4: Button we'll give you a pass a couple.

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Speaker 2: After you have to know after eleven years that was

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Speaker 1: HAPPEN i let you, First we'll give you a. Pass

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Speaker 1: listen to the. Podcast they heard it on the on the. Internet,

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Speaker 1: PETER a couple of footnote, questions and to give me

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Speaker 1: short answers because we wanted to ask the dot and then.

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Speaker 1: Listen i'm curious to see how many people want TO

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Speaker 1: i want to talk the, Bridge, russus potholes and lies

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Speaker 1: and everything ELSE i want to talk, About. Peter did

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Speaker 1: you have any backdoor conversations with the governor before? This

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Speaker 1: did he say to, you come, on it's time because

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Speaker 1: that's look that's going to be out there. Too was

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Speaker 1: there anything like? That what DID i just, Say i've.

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Speaker 2: Been saying, No, no that discussion never took. Place the

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Speaker 2: first discussion that took place was WHEN i went to

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Speaker 2: them uh and said it's. Time, Okay i'm submitting my.

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Speaker 2: Resignation that's.

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Speaker 1: IT i know you came out of the. Unions did

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Speaker 1: the unions have any influence on on your on your

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Speaker 1: timing or anything to do with this?

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Speaker 2: Decision, Okay i'm GONNA i don't know if your ear

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Speaker 2: is a block this, Morning, Jeane But, PETER.

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Speaker 1: I could take. It go, ahead you could yell at.

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Speaker 1: Me we'll get along after this.

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Speaker 2: Too go. Ahead this is this was mine In kathy's.

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Speaker 2: Decision we thought long and hard over the, holidays AS i,

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Speaker 2: said and, uh this is this is our. Decision, Enough

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Speaker 2: i've given as much AS i can to the, state

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Speaker 2: and it's.

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Speaker 1: Time all, right let's do.

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Speaker 2: It hold, on let me clarify. Something you. KNOW i

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Speaker 2: thought about this during the. Break you mentioned the chorus

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Speaker 2: of these political hacks that are looking to self angrandize

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Speaker 2: themselves in further their own political, careers and those kinds

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Speaker 2: of statements that you. Played, yes they did enter into

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Speaker 2: the discussion Between kathy AND i in my. Retirement they,

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Speaker 2: did And i'll tell you how they entered. In it

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Speaker 2: convinced me and my wife THAT i am not going

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Speaker 2: to be used as a political pawn during this vicious

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Speaker 2: election cycle that we're heading, into not going to be

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Speaker 2: used as a pawn for. Them and so, yes in that,

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Speaker 2: regard and you're playing of them and be hearing, Them,

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Speaker 2: yes that was a. Factor it wasn't, everything but it

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Speaker 2: was a. Factor i'm not going to be used as

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Speaker 2: a pawn for these political hacks that are looking to get.

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Speaker 2: Elected that's all they're. Doing they'll say anything and they'll

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Speaker 2: do anything to get. Elected AND i think every listener

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Speaker 2: out there recognizes that.

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Speaker 1: Fact, Peter, bill just give me a second, Here, PETER

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Speaker 1: i Played Helena, folks son of The Dela cruz Speaker

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Speaker 1: shakharchi And Aaron. Gukian are you labeling them all political?

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Speaker 2: Hacks, well when they use that kind of language and

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Speaker 2: they use me and my position AT dot to further

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Speaker 2: their own, Agendas i'll let the people of the state

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Speaker 2: Of Rhode island decide what they think of.

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Speaker 1: That, diane go, ahead you're on with the. Director, yes good.

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Speaker 5: MORNING i was hope being that a pedestrian crosswalk could

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Speaker 5: be installed at the end Of Waterman avenue in these

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Speaker 5: providence Where massassoia Meets North. Brow it's very dangerous to

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Speaker 6: There there's no. CROSSWALK i think it's a state.

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Speaker 1: Road, peter is that you do you happen to?

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Speaker 2: Know i'm not sure in that particular location who has

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Speaker 2: jurisdiction on, that BUT i rest Assured i'm going to,

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Speaker 2: check just to help you out a little. Bit. Here

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Speaker 2: the process that we use to install those kind of

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Speaker 2: crosswalks usually come with a recommendation from the city of

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Speaker 2: town that this location is. In So i'll follow up

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Speaker 2: on this and give you more detailed instructions how to

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Speaker 2: make this. Happen but there's a process to. It it

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Speaker 2: has to go to The State Traffic commission to get.

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Speaker 2: Studied But i'll start the ball rolling And i'll report

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Speaker 2: back to your next week on what to do next

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Speaker 2: and what needs to be done Next onne.

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Speaker 1: Theless of the follow. Ups next Caller bottom Or, bob go, Ahead.

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Speaker 6: Bob good, Morning. Director thank you for your years of

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Speaker 6: service and your access has been. Legendary people are going

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Speaker 6: to discover that nobody else is ever going to provide

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Speaker 6: access like you. HAVE i did have a question about

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Speaker 6: the overpasses On route ninety. Five as they get, redone

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Speaker 6: they used to have the names of the streets going

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Speaker 6: over like as you go Through cranston it would Say

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Speaker 6: Laurentz street And Milford street. Overpass and when they get

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Speaker 6: peen Of, blue it seems like those names don't go

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Speaker 6: back on the. BRIDGE i wondered if you could speak

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Speaker 6: to that a little. Bit, well you, know so i't.

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Speaker 2: Think it may simply be an. OVERSIGHT i. HAVEN'T i

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Speaker 2: actually haven't noticed that, myself so that's a good. CALL

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Speaker 2: i appreciate. It heads up on, this And i'll get

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Speaker 2: with our project managers to see if we can get

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Speaker 2: those signs installed at those. Locations do you know if

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Speaker 2: any in particular that you've.

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Speaker 6: Seen, well, Yes En, crampston the notes For overpast and

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Speaker 6: The Lorentz street, overpast those are definitely missing on ninety.

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Speaker 2: Five that's, correct, yep all, Right i'll make sure they

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Speaker 2: get put up. There and thanks for the heads. Up

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Speaker 2: i'll Have i'll have our folks check off all the.

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Speaker 2: Bridges there are quite quite a few of, them and

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Speaker 2: that's a final detail that might have gotten left.

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Speaker 1: Off, okay next Caller bill And. Johnston bill's And johnston Go.

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Speaker 3: Bill good morning. Guys Thanks peter for the colorful language this.

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Speaker 3: Morning that's. Great we were on hold we hear that,

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Speaker 3: stuff so that's great and you enjoy your. Retirement and

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Speaker 3: the entrance ramps For root Six east Off Killingly street

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Speaker 3: are very narrow when they merge onto the. Highway they

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Speaker 3: merged like directly into the first. Lane could those be

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Speaker 3: widened a little? Bit usually there's a little bit of

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Speaker 3: space to get you to. Merge where is this, Again

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Speaker 3: root Six east off of the exit for killing the

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Speaker 3: street Onto root Six. East, huh you, KNOW i don't

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Speaker 3: know if it can be. Widened oh, yeah we'll find

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Speaker 3: out in half to half. Away when it merges Onto

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Speaker 2: Slowing, gotcha? Gotcha all? Right let me let me let

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Speaker 2: me talk to to my folks and see what if

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Speaker 2: anything could be done in that. Area why it why

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Speaker 2: it got to be like? That? Thanks thanks for your input.

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Speaker 1: Though, okay all, right Good, dennis go, Ahead, dennis not the,

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Speaker 1: nephew go, Ahead. Denise good, morning.

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Speaker 7: Gentlemen, peter good luck with your. RETIREMENT i have a

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Speaker 7: question about the entrance and exit To Cold State. Park

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Speaker 7: they are extremely, bumpy not a pothole per, se but

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Speaker 7: when you go in and, out your head is like

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Speaker 7: hitting the roof of your. CAR i wonder if that's

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Speaker 7: something you could look at.

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Speaker 8: It.

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Speaker 2: Is i'm not sure who's jurisdiction that would fall under.

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Speaker 2: It sometimes that's local, city or sometimes it's ad ems.

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Speaker 2: Issue but Will i'll have my folks see if we

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Speaker 2: can get it addressed, anyway regardless of who's jurisdiction it's

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Speaker 2: in They we have people, listening so they have the

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Speaker 2: location and we'll have it checked, out not report back to.

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Speaker 1: YOU i just missed. It is it once you go

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Speaker 1: through the gates to get int the park or is it?

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Speaker 7: Outside it's right at the light when you go.

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Speaker 2: In and okaya at the. Entrance all, right, week.

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Speaker 1: We'll find out Next paul on, soak go, Ahead, paul go?

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Speaker 2: Ahead.

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Speaker 8: Gean first, OFF i commend you're Forgiving peter unlimited time

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Speaker 8: to make his case instead of being just a ten

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Speaker 8: second sound bite on the, News, peter the. Ripped the

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Speaker 8: bus stops around the state are. Horrendous there their accidents

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Speaker 8: waiting to. Happen you've got lots of people that ride.

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Speaker 8: That why can't you get them about to clear the?

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Speaker 8: Snow people are standing in the streets to wait on on.

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Speaker 8: Buses the bus stops on either side of the train

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Speaker 8: station in province are. Horrendous you got hundreds of communities

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Speaker 8: coming on the train coming back From. Boston they can't

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Speaker 8: get to their. Buses so what can you?

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Speaker 2: Do so WHAT i can do, is as a ripped board,

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Speaker 2: Member i'll be making a call right after the show

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Speaker 2: To ripeda is that snow removal at the bus stops

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Speaker 2: is not something that has been the responsibility of The

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Speaker 2: Rhode ISLAND, dot but rather it is part of THE

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Speaker 2: ripta and local kinds of snow removal. Efforts if they

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Speaker 2: need a, hand we'll be there to give them a,

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Speaker 2: HAND i assure. You But i'll get on it right

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Speaker 2: after the. Show regardless of who's jurisdiction it's, In i'll

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Speaker 2: make sure that it gets.

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Speaker 1: Done, Paul peter Has Mayor smiley asked you for some

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Speaker 1: help with the. Streets he's taking a beating over.

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Speaker 2: This, yeah you know there are city streets on either

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Speaker 2: side of ninety five In providence that we sent some

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Speaker 2: crews in to clean up. There they're not part of

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Speaker 2: the state highway, system but we sent our crewis in

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Speaker 2: to clean those.

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Speaker 1: Up, Anyway, okay And, peter when when you, retire are

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Speaker 1: you leaving the rip the board and The turnpike And

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Speaker 1: Bridge Authority board as well in any of the boards

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Speaker 1: that you serve.

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Speaker 2: On. Yeah, well the boards are prescribed by state law

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Speaker 2: too for the director Of Rhode Island dot to be on.

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Speaker 2: Them so IF i leave my position as director OF,

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Speaker 2: dot then the next director would fill in that position by.

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Speaker 1: Lay now you're the chair chairman of the rip the,

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Speaker 1: board so that means there'll be an opening and going

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Speaker 1: to a new chairman of the.

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Speaker 2: Board they are, Correct, well no they won't because the,

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Speaker 2: again the legislation that was passed that enabled me to

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Speaker 2: be the the chairman basically didn't do it by my.

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Speaker 2: Name it did it by, position so it names whoever

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Speaker 2: is the director Of transportation The department Of transportation is

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Speaker 2: the chairman of that, board and so whoever enters into

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Speaker 2: That Bob, rocchio the new director WHEN i leave on

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Speaker 2: the twenty, seventh will then automatically be assigned to that chairman.

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Speaker 1: Position, okay next call For. Peter all, Right, dave got, Ahead,

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Speaker 1: Buddy dave go.

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Speaker 9: Okay Hey, peter good luck in your. RETIREMENT i had

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Speaker 9: a question on the truck. Tolls, geene keep me. HONEST

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Speaker 9: i believe the truck tolls were in this year's, budget

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Speaker 9: so the expectation was that we're going to have some

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Speaker 9: revenue coming in from the tolls this. Year So, peter

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Speaker 9: my question, is could the vendor turn the truck toles on?

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Speaker 9: Today Because i've heard you say that you need to

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Speaker 9: sink things up or are we are you making a

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Speaker 9: decision not to turn them on until after the.

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Speaker 2: Election, YEAH i can understand maybe how people could extract

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Speaker 2: that from the actual, reality the reality.

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Speaker 1: To understand that, too or run on an election.

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Speaker 2: Again but Again i'm here To i'm here to simply

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Speaker 2: say what is not what people would like to speculate

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Speaker 2: or theorize or or create conspiracy. Theories on the fact

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Speaker 2: of the matter is this equipments sat there unused for

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Speaker 2: several years in the, elements electronic, equipment all kinds of control,

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Speaker 2: devices control boxes on the side of, highway et. Cetera

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Speaker 2: there are two things that need to be. Done the

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Speaker 2: first was we needed to take an assess of all

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Speaker 2: of the equipment to determine what equipment needed to be, replaced.

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Speaker 2: Repaired that equipment is going to have to be, ordered,

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Speaker 2: installed and all synced into the. System, again these are

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Speaker 2: things that would have been done on a regular basis

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Speaker 2: while we shut down the tolling. System that we weren't

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Speaker 2: doing because we didn't know what the outcome of the

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Speaker 2: case was going to. Be so why continue to pay

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Speaker 2: to maintain and pay the power costs of operating that

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Speaker 2: equipment while it wasn't collecting tolls during the court. Cases

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Speaker 2: once the court cases found in our favor and, said,

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Speaker 2: okay we had an assessment done over the last year

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Speaker 2: of that equipment and more of it was dysfunctional than

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Speaker 2: we originally, sought so it's going to take a little

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Speaker 2: longer to do. That in, addition the software systems the

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Speaker 2: back office that The Rhode Island turnpike And bridge was

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Speaker 2: operating for us to do the, collections the billing and

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Speaker 2: collections of the tolls, themselves that entire system was changed

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Speaker 2: during the last several years while the tolling system was

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Speaker 2: off by The turnpike And Bridge. Authority they've installed new

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Speaker 2: software systems to do that toll collection and all of

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00:28:20,640 --> 00:28:25,280
Speaker 2: that for their. Systems we did not do that to

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00:28:25,440 --> 00:28:30,480
Speaker 2: include the dot, systems because, again why spend Money if

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Speaker 2: the court case came out, negative that would have been wasted,

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00:28:34,760 --> 00:28:39,120
Speaker 2: money so we. Didn't we are now in the process

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00:28:40,200 --> 00:28:44,360
Speaker 2: and there has been AN rfp issued to create a

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Speaker 2: new back office system that will do the billing using

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00:28:49,040 --> 00:28:53,480
Speaker 2: all of the most modern technologies and collection. Systems both

442
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Speaker 2: of those things are happening. Simultaneously the upgrades on the

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00:28:57,240 --> 00:29:02,800
Speaker 2: existing equipment and The, uh upgrades to the software. Systems

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00:29:03,560 --> 00:29:06,800
Speaker 2: that's going to take a while to, do and we're

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Speaker 2: going to take as long as is. Necessary we're not

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00:29:10,080 --> 00:29:15,720
Speaker 2: going to rush into re implementing any kind of complex

447
00:29:16,240 --> 00:29:21,040
Speaker 2: electronic and software. Systems as you know in the state

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Speaker 2: then they have been a history of those who rushed

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00:29:25,840 --> 00:29:33,880
Speaker 2: into those kinds of complex software systems having. Challenges. Right, well,

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00:29:33,880 --> 00:29:40,560
Speaker 2: see we're not going To we're not gonna we're put

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Speaker 2: Ourselves we're not gonna put ourselves in that we did

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Speaker 2: in the first time. Around if you remember when we

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Speaker 2: did the toes the first time, around we had a

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Speaker 2: couple of delays because we wanted to make sure that

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00:29:51,360 --> 00:29:54,400
Speaker 2: the day that we turn it on it's going to

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Speaker 2: work from day. One and we've and we're going to

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00:29:57,200 --> 00:29:59,640
Speaker 2: do the same with. This we're going to do everything

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Speaker 2: we have do to make sure that vote the equipment

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Speaker 2: and the software software is fully, functional fully, updated fully, modernized,

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Speaker 2: uh so that from this point forward it'll just be

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Speaker 2: collecting and got.

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Speaker 3: It.

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Speaker 2: Uh and there is no stall on it for any

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00:30:16,800 --> 00:30:19,600
Speaker 2: kind of political. Purpose it's simply the logistics are getting

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Speaker 2: all of this equipment and software working perfectly before we

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Speaker 2: begin to send bills.

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Speaker 1: Out, peter you tell me last time that early next

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Speaker 1: year we're going to turn it. On, peter give me the.

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Speaker 1: Price what are we going to?

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Speaker 3: Charge?

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Speaker 1: COME i make news over? Here what are we going to?

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Speaker 1: Charge you must know the?

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Speaker 2: Ballpark, well as a matter of, fact we're finalizing that.

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00:30:40,480 --> 00:30:43,880
Speaker 2: Now tiny from What i'm. Seeing from What i'm, seeing

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Speaker 2: there's going to be across the board reductions in the

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Speaker 2: toll amounts that we'll be charging at each one of the,

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Speaker 2: locations or understand. It So i'm Gonna i'm gonna. Venture

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Speaker 2: what do you?

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Speaker 1: Care tell?

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Speaker 2: ME I m, WELL i always care BECAUSE i want

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Speaker 2: to be. Accurate, IDAY i, mean if we look at

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Speaker 2: if we look at, it it'll be somewhere in the

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00:31:13,520 --> 00:31:18,600
Speaker 2: ten to twenty percent range reduction in the amounts that'll

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Speaker 2: be charged to truck.

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Speaker 1: Drivers so do the mask for. ME i don't remember.

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Speaker 2: Now the map is whatever the tolls were, before there'll

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Speaker 2: be a reduction between ten and twenty.

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Speaker 1: Percent, okay do you happen to remember what the toll

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Speaker 1: was on a regular truck going UNDER i don't remember.

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Speaker 2: Myself every we had we had thirty something locations or

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00:31:40,960 --> 00:31:45,360
Speaker 2: thirteen different actual tolling locations throughout the. State each one

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00:31:45,440 --> 00:31:49,080
Speaker 2: had a separate tolling amount that was charged per. Truck

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Speaker 2: and so, NO i. DIDN'T i didn't memorize all thirteen

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00:31:53,160 --> 00:31:58,000
Speaker 2: locations and thirty. Devices so but whatever they, were we're

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Speaker 2: looking at general reductions across the board for the trucks

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Speaker 2: that go.

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Speaker 1: Under, okay but you said fifteen to twenty percent less

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Speaker 1: than what you were.

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Speaker 2: Getting is that THAT i Were, no, no, NO i

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Speaker 2: said between ten and twenty percent were in that.

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Speaker 3: Ring ten and.

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Speaker 2: TWENTY i, mean don't don't hold me to because the

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Speaker 2: final number is all. Over, yeah here's the cross counts to.

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00:32:20,920 --> 00:32:23,440
Speaker 2: That but they, will let's put it this, way they

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00:32:23,440 --> 00:32:24,640
Speaker 2: will be less than they were.

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Speaker 1: Before all, right that's the. News, okay next called. You

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00:32:28,080 --> 00:32:30,720
Speaker 1: now we're. Done we're, done And i'm gonna have time for.

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Speaker 1: Files we got to save them for next. Week i'm. Sorry,

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Speaker 1: yeah At, peter, listen you never doked. Us you came

510
00:32:36,080 --> 00:32:38,480
Speaker 1: on a good time some bad and for that you get.

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Speaker 1: Credit and this is the.

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Speaker 2: Business, Look, Jean i'm gotta thank you. TOO i, mean,

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00:32:46,080 --> 00:32:50,960
Speaker 2: look m WPR, o this has given us as a

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00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:55,840
Speaker 2: department to actually on a weekly basis to hear from

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00:32:55,880 --> 00:33:00,880
Speaker 2: the real people in the, state the people who are

516
00:33:00,960 --> 00:33:04,120
Speaker 2: driving in their. Cars they're on the roads every day

517
00:33:04,200 --> 00:33:06,920
Speaker 2: having to get to and from their schools and all

518
00:33:07,040 --> 00:33:11,720
Speaker 2: that is this provided us AT, dot and it's been

519
00:33:11,880 --> 00:33:16,240
Speaker 2: very effective and providing us a great window into what

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00:33:16,800 --> 00:33:20,400
Speaker 2: the folks here In Rhode island really want from our transportation.

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00:33:20,560 --> 00:33:24,040
Speaker 2: System and believe me WHEN i, say not only do

522
00:33:24,120 --> 00:33:26,760
Speaker 2: we listen and respond as we are today with these,

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00:33:26,840 --> 00:33:31,200
Speaker 2: responses but we also take the information that we hear

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00:33:31,240 --> 00:33:35,400
Speaker 2: from these people every, week and my folks have implemented

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00:33:35,840 --> 00:33:39,920
Speaker 2: them into changes that we've made for the positive AT

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00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:45,320
Speaker 2: dot for all. Time so a lot of thanks on

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Speaker 2: the improvements that we've made AT dot goes to the people,

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Speaker 2: themselves Who i've heard from every week telling us what they,

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00:33:52,920 --> 00:33:57,680
Speaker 2: want and that became an important factor in the new

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00:33:57,720 --> 00:34:01,520
Speaker 2: culture AT, dot AND i think it's embedded INTO dot

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Speaker 2: to have an ear open to the, people directly to

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00:34:05,720 --> 00:34:07,280
Speaker 2: the people of the state Of Rhode.

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Speaker 1: Island, peter appreciate you coming on today And i'll talk

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00:34:10,400 --> 00:34:10,560
Speaker 1: to you.

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Speaker 2: Soon you, bet and be. Safe