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Speaker 1: Jump mission with Jones and Amanda. Sometimes I just think, actually, no,

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Speaker 1: I don't think lately. I just know that our politicians

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Speaker 1: are fairedinghom idiots and they have no idea what they're doing.

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Speaker 1: Light rail case in point, did we or did we

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Speaker 1: not say don't buy trams from the Spanish because they've

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Speaker 1: made terrible trams in the past and they've had plagued

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Speaker 1: troubles all around the world, and they went ahead and

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Speaker 1: bought them, and now here we are. We are after

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Speaker 1: eighteen months of trouble, all those people in George Street

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Speaker 1: that lost their businesses and all that sort of stuff.

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Speaker 1: We had to put up with all this junk because

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Speaker 1: they said, oh're you going to get this light ral.

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Speaker 1: It's going to be great. Sure, it travels as the

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Speaker 1: speed of a glacial geriatric, but it's going to be

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Speaker 1: the future. And now it's got these cracks in them

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Speaker 1: and they're going to be off the road for eighteen months.

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Speaker 2: Well, the Inner West light rail is going to be

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Speaker 2: decommissioned for up to eighteen months. You know, why didn't

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Speaker 2: they find this out at the beginning of the pandemic,

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Speaker 2: Because didn't.

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Speaker 1: We all know that That's what I mean didn't we

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Speaker 1: say all this all the.

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Speaker 2: Deld A outbreak, the light rail network had about two

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Speaker 2: million trips a month that dropped to three hundred and

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Speaker 2: fifty thousand during lockdown. The figure is expected to get

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Speaker 2: right back up again. And this also, this line goes

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Speaker 2: past a whole stack of school's hc starting to ww

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Speaker 2: blah blah blah. Now no, sorry, we're just decommissioning it

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Speaker 2: for eighteen months. How frustrating that they costs so much.

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Speaker 2: The final price tag of the light rail is two

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Speaker 2: point nine to six billion, more than one point three

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Speaker 2: billion over its initial cost.

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Speaker 1: You know, yeah no, And there's another thing. The reason

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Speaker 1: the cracks because they were going too fast. How fast

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Speaker 1: were they supposed to go? I was supposed to go

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Speaker 1: back on too fast. I just think, who are these

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Speaker 1: people making these decisions?

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Speaker 2: Well, I'll tell you who.

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Speaker 1: They were, who we blame.

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Speaker 2: The project was first mooted by barrio'farrell when he was

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Speaker 2: in opposition he was Opposition leader and the then shadow

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Speaker 2: Transport Minister Gladysbury Jiculian. Then when they came into office,

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Speaker 2: the project was they set the project up. It was

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Speaker 2: set to cost one point six billion, and then it

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Speaker 2: became two point one billion, and then blah blah blah,

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Speaker 2: the Order to General found that this kept going up

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Speaker 2: and up because of quote mispricing and omissions in the

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Speaker 2: business case. So nearly three billion dollars later. So one

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Speaker 2: arm of this the Inner West Light Rail decommission from

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Speaker 2: up to eighteen months.

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Speaker 1: Are the cracks that bad? Are they in the in

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Speaker 1: the superstructure of the shast?

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Speaker 2: They found in the significant cracks were discovered in the

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Speaker 2: bogie box body, the wheel arch.

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Speaker 1: Youll bbb, it's just in the wheel arch.

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Speaker 2: But the trams are only seven years old.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but still just in the wheel arch. Can we

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Speaker 1: just get a bit of bog and you know, then

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Speaker 1: that'll get it through regio.

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Speaker 2: Look, just when we're trying to entice people to head

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Speaker 2: back to the CBD.

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Speaker 1: Could I know who makes these decisions? I reckon I

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Speaker 1: could make better decisions Regon, you and I could.

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Speaker 2: Make better What decisions would they be?

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Speaker 1: Will not buy this tram for a start? That would

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Speaker 1: be my number one decision? At least get it? You know,

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Speaker 1: I have a look around a bit.

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Speaker 2: Come on, Yeah, we feel for you if you stuck.

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Speaker 2: Apparently the buses politicians good luck with the buses wake

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Speaker 2: up

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Speaker 1: Jonesy and Amanda's donation