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Speaker 1: Now we are just going to hit across right now

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Speaker 1: and just get a little bit of an update on

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Speaker 1: this bus stop situation. Bridgid Bilby joins me on the

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Speaker 1: line from Sweet Brew, one of the owners. Good morning

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Speaker 1: to your bridget.

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Speaker 2: Hey Katie, how are you not too bad?

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Speaker 1: Bridget? We got a couple of messages this morning, people saying, Katie,

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Speaker 1: it looks like the bus stop is moving. What is

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Speaker 1: the case.

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Speaker 2: So we were also very surprised and apprehensively excited that

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Speaker 2: it was moving this morning. So no consultation from anyone

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Speaker 2: about anything. Dipple has said to Tangle that they are

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Speaker 2: communicating with concerned parties, but we have had no communication

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Speaker 2: directly from anyone, and we are a concern party obviously. However, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: this morning we saw the workers move what appeared to

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Speaker 2: be moving at and we were very hopeful, and then

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Speaker 2: within about an hour we realized that they were moving

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Speaker 2: in it roughly three meters back towards kind of KFC.

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Speaker 2: So that's a semi positive, but also it's not going

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Speaker 2: to do anything for us. Unfortunately. On top of that,

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Speaker 2: we can see no shade structure being put in, no

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Speaker 2: bench seat, no rubbish bins, so they're obviously going to

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Speaker 2: just come sit in front of our shop again.

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Speaker 1: Oh man, why would they mean actually talk to you guys?

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Speaker 1: Like you know, you've raised your concerns, you've you've you've

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Speaker 1: spoken to me about it, you've spoken to others, you've

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Speaker 1: very publicly said you're happy to chat to whoever you

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Speaker 1: need to. Like, I can't wrap my head around in

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Speaker 1: why they wouldn't.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm very unsure on it. I mean they we

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Speaker 2: were having very clear conversations after the last time we

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Speaker 2: spoke with all the kind of well with our local member,

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Speaker 2: and that was really productive and really good, and they've

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Speaker 2: fought really hard for us, Like no doubt in my

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Speaker 2: mind that they've definitely been harping on about it. Their

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Speaker 2: hopes and our hopes was that it was going to

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Speaker 2: move to at least where Kerries is. They don't have

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Speaker 2: a shop front onto the road, which makes it make

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Speaker 2: sense in my opinion, because they're not going to have

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Speaker 2: any direct contact with bus stop goers.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Bridget, did they give you like because you know,

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Speaker 1: to me, the more we spoke about it last time

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Speaker 1: you were on, people started to go, you know, Katie,

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Speaker 1: there's a bus stop up like just a bit further

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Speaker 1: past the local member Tansel's office. You know, why do

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Speaker 1: we need to in such close proximity to each other?

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Speaker 1: So that was the question that other people were asking

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Speaker 1: on the show. Have has there been much discussion about that, or,

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Speaker 1: as anyone said to you, why you even need one

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Speaker 1: right there when there's one like three hundred meters up

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Speaker 2: No, not at all. We haven't yet. No one's really

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Speaker 2: asked us about that, particularly Tansll did try and get

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Speaker 2: it moved actually closer to his office, but were shut

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Speaker 2: down because of that other bus stop. And then you know,

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Speaker 2: we've had no consultation. I do understand like from having

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Speaker 2: a bus stop here. Obviously, we've watched various demographics come through,

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Speaker 2: and there are actually a fair few demographics that I

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Speaker 2: think that that could actually hinder their experience on the buses.

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Speaker 2: There are some parents who wait with their kids in

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Speaker 2: the morning and put their kids on a bus, so

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Speaker 2: to a certain extent, I don't think that that's a

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Speaker 2: solution either, because I have seen a few users who

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Speaker 2: I think are quite local to that Duke Street kind

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Speaker 2: of area, so they yeah, I don't think they'd appreciate

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Speaker 2: it being completely deleted.

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Speaker 1: Look I'm getting some colorful messages. I think you'd have

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Speaker 1: to say, bridget people saying they can't believe this situation.

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Speaker 1: You know, I think everyone's going to keep on scratching

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Speaker 1: their heads. I mean, fundamentally, we've got to get a

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Speaker 1: hold of this garbage behavior that we're seeing when it

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Speaker 1: comes to crime and anti social behavior. And you know,

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Speaker 1: you just cannot have then a bus stop and people

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Speaker 1: jumping off the bus, behaving in a in a you know,

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Speaker 1: in an inn appropriate not just inappropriate, but in some cases,

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Speaker 1: on your bloody doorstep.

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Speaker 2: And yeah, and it has escalated since we last spoke

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Speaker 2: to what I fear, where we've had a personal situation

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Speaker 2: Can I use the toilet? So for me, I'm literally, yeah,

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Speaker 2: god smacked, because this is what I've been saying, is

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Speaker 2: that it's only going to escalate. And I think people

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Speaker 2: just are downplaying it as you know, a dramatic thing,

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Speaker 2: but it's really not. It is actually dangerous.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's also unacceptable that you're dealing with a

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Speaker 1: level of behavior that is that's unacceptable every single day

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Speaker 1: where your staff are feeling like they're unsafe, and that's

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Speaker 1: not you know, that's not just a fear or a perception,

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Speaker 1: that's a reality you know every day on it. No,

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Speaker 1: it's not normal. It's totally abnormal to have to deal

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Speaker 1: think that that bus stops been moved three meters and

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Speaker 1: they're feeling as though that might make people happy just

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Speaker 1: really makes you scratch your head further.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that it's hoping that, you know, it

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Speaker 2: will be seen as this grand gesture, but it's what

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Speaker 2: I see straight through it. It's just them trying to

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Speaker 2: please us and new tough. But I don't think that

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Speaker 2: it will.

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Speaker 1: Well, I'm pleased that, you know, I'm pleased that we

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Speaker 1: had to chat to you about it, because you know,

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Speaker 1: when I first started to get messages saying, Katie, it

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Speaker 1: looks like it's moving, you think the most positive thing,

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Speaker 1: and you go, oh, well, that's a good thing, you know,

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Speaker 1: But now that we've spoken to you, it certainly makes

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Speaker 1: me think. You know, I think that they should have

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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, I agree, Bridget.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for your time this morning.

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Speaker 2: I hope. I know it.

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Speaker 1: I know it's tough, you know, having to deal with this,

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Speaker 1: but I hope you have a lovely Christmas with you

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Speaker 1: and your little family and for your staff as well.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much. Merry Christmas, Katie, Thank you you too,