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Speaker 1: No one is busier than Rita Safiotti. Today our Deputy

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Speaker 1: Premier is joining us now.

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Speaker 2: Good morning Read, good morning, good morning Kream.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us because we know you are very

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Speaker 1: busy today. The Armadale train line is closing from today

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Speaker 1: for about eighteen months. This is a long stretch now

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Speaker 1: for anyone who doesn't realize why, because.

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Speaker 3: We're transforming the amadal raw line. So we're removing thirteen

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Speaker 3: level crossings, we're building seven new stations, and we're connecting

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Speaker 3: the new thorny Coba link into Beckenham. So three major projects.

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Speaker 3: And we're extending sorry the rail line to Byford. The

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Speaker 3: three major projects. And so there's a lot of work

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Speaker 3: that's happening from Byford right through to Big Park and

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Speaker 3: to Thornley. And it's oburn it can it.

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Speaker 2: Be fantastic when it's finishing up.

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Speaker 1: There has to be a bit of disruption in the

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Speaker 1: meantime for these things to happen.

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Speaker 4: And reader, I would imagine some nerves around the fact

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Speaker 4: you want it to be eighteen months and no longer.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, we're really confident with the eighteen months time and

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Speaker 3: fron because a lot of the work, the structure work's

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Speaker 3: been done off site, so for example, five hundred and

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Speaker 3: thirty two lbeams have been constructed. They're off site, ready

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Speaker 3: to be moved in once it works and are underway.

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Speaker 3: This morning I went to one of the level crossings

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Speaker 3: and we removed our first boomgate, so the first book

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Speaker 3: boomgates have gone on Mint Street and over this week

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Speaker 3: they'll be removing the boomgate, so there'll be some of

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Speaker 3: the local local disruption. We unscrewed the boomgate, put it

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Speaker 3: down and that's it. They've gone forever, so that works

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Speaker 3: happening this week. I'm actually sitting here at the Cannington Transfers,

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Speaker 3: the bus station, the new one we built for the

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Speaker 3: shut We're seeing the buses move in and out so

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Speaker 3: so far it's going smoothly, but of course we haven't

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Speaker 3: hit peak oul yet, so.

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Speaker 2: We go it's coming.

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Speaker 1: I guess the people affected number in the thousands.

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Speaker 2: What alternatives are being offered to us.

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Speaker 3: There's about eighteen thousand people we estimate normally catch the

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Speaker 3: rail line. They've got three travels from today, so eighteen

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Speaker 3: thousand people have registered. They're smart rider, so they've got

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Speaker 3: free travel for six months. And there's all these alternative

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Speaker 3: bus routes that we've got underway, and they include sort

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Speaker 3: of limited stop bus routes and other types of bus

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Speaker 3: routes to get people through armadal through to the city.

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Speaker 3: And we've also built three new bus bus stations to

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Speaker 3: service those new bus routes. We've built one point two

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Speaker 3: kilometers of dedicated bus lanes along Shepperton Road, and we've

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Speaker 3: got new technology in our traffic lights which are for

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Speaker 3: forty traffic lights which monitor if buses are coming towards

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Speaker 3: them and if they're running late these priority buses, then

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Speaker 3: they hold the green light longer to allow the bus

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Speaker 3: to jump in a sense, jump through the lights. So

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Speaker 3: there's quite a bit happening. We've got incidence response teams

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Speaker 3: out the roads, one hundred extra staff out across the

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Speaker 3: bus stations to help people today. But we know there's

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Speaker 3: always h cups. It's never as smooth as you want,

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Speaker 3: but hopefully done everything we can to prepare for these

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Speaker 3: these months.

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Speaker 4: Put everything its been put in place, some of the

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Speaker 4: bus technology so that you get a longer green lights remote.

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Speaker 3: I sn't used Fred last night. I want to try

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Speaker 3: and grab one and put it under my cap. Thank you.

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Speaker 4: Speak of your card and now we're talking about exceptional

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Speaker 4: customer service. This morning. If someone misses the bus in Kennington,

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Speaker 4: will you give them a lifting of the city today

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Speaker 4: or are you a bit busy?

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Speaker 3: I'll try, I'll try. Yeah, it's like I was out

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Speaker 3: removing the boomgates this morning. It's busy.

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Speaker 1: I was out removing boom gates. I can't do everything, glazy.

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Speaker 2: Well, the last question, how much is it costing?

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Speaker 3: Do we know all all? As in the euations, the

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Speaker 3: two major protests are costing are two billion dollars in

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Speaker 3: all the level costs you removal and the extension of

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Speaker 3: bike for plus some works to Thorny Coben.

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Speaker 2: It's going to change.

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Speaker 4: People's lives will from there. Yeah, and you have to

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Speaker 4: put an invoice in for that work with the boom

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Speaker 4: gates too.

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Speaker 3: Yes, well I did too, and I was only planning

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Speaker 3: to do.

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Speaker 4: One a couple of money.

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Speaker 1: All right, Red, Thank you so much for taking the

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Speaker 1: time to check in with us about it all, and

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Speaker 1: I hope everything goes smoothly today.

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Speaker 2: All the best, Thank you very much, Thank you. Thanks