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Speaker 1: One of the city's most prominent and heavily used river

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Speaker 1: crossings is about to get a landmark upgrade, which is

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Speaker 1: that's the good news. Yeah, the aging Fremantle traffic Bridge

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Speaker 1: is set for a twelve month closure. But that's the

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Speaker 1: you know what you've got to put up with.

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Speaker 2: It's been going since nineteen thirty nine and it was

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Speaker 2: only supposed to be a temporary Yes, yes, it's held up.

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Speaker 1: Well, it's going to close on Sunday, making way for

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Speaker 1: the four hundred and thirty million dollar replacement, which will

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Speaker 1: take about twelve months to build.

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Speaker 2: So they say, we know a full year closure of

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Speaker 2: such a key artery is going to shake up our commutes. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: you reckon. That's an understatement.

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Speaker 1: Approximately twenty four thousand vehicles use that bridge daily, so yeah,

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Speaker 1: might be a small town, it's a busy bridge.

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Speaker 2: Get busy.

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Speaker 1: So that's twenty four thousand people that are going to

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Speaker 1: need to find a new route. Most are expected to

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Speaker 1: funnel onto the Sterling Bridge.

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Speaker 2: Oh that's going to be fun.

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Speaker 1: So traffic modeling for Cast warns of severe impacts and delays.

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Speaker 2: I think I know what Christy's going to be talking about.

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Speaker 1: On out of their cars.

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Speaker 2: All right, the traffic reports and walking yes cars on

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Speaker 2: the Sterling Bridge.

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Speaker 1: How do you avoid delays? Well, those in the know

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Speaker 1: are saying master the closure by making one simple change.

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Speaker 1: Rethink your route will yet, but they say your best

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Speaker 1: bet for a fuss free commute lies with the significant

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Speaker 1: boost to public transport. The government is pulling out all

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Speaker 1: the stops, adding four additional train services during peak times

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Speaker 1: and reinforcing key bus routes and with extra vehicles to

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Speaker 1: maintain reliable timetables, and also dedicated bus services to tackle

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Speaker 1: the school run traffic.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, because they are saying, if you can shift your

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Speaker 2: travel times, yeah, not always easy, but you avoid seven

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Speaker 2: to nine and then ford all six in the if

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Speaker 2: you can.

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Speaker 1: That's kind of ridiculous because you're going to work. You

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Speaker 1: can't just avoid seven to night.

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Speaker 2: Just as everybody's finishing being told to finish up work

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Speaker 2: from home? Can I take it into the office? Oh

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Speaker 2: hang on, but not between these times you know it's seven.

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Speaker 1: No, that's not that's not going to happen in the

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Speaker 1: real world. But I think you know one thing to

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Speaker 1: remember is patience.

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Speaker 2: Well, we lived with it on the freeway for how

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Speaker 2: many years have we lived with it on the freeways

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Speaker 2: forty still going.

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Speaker 1: What about the junken Highway exactly at Morley Drive.

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Speaker 2: Hello, that's taken a while, so now free. Oh it's

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Speaker 2: your turn. You've watched everybody else in Perth put up

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Speaker 2: with it. Now it's your turn and you'll learn. You

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Speaker 2: have to copy it for a year. Just gonna help

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Speaker 2: the freeway.

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Speaker 1: I imagine. Probably you're just going to have to allow

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Speaker 1: more time for your committe.

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Speaker 2: Look, and can I just say, probably a good idea

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Speaker 2: as we head into the weekend. Just been five or

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Speaker 2: ten minutes just planning out your journey. You can visit

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Speaker 2: the building for tomorrow website, Building for tomorrow, dot WA,

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Speaker 2: dot gov, dot AU, look for Swan River crossings and

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Speaker 2: just do a little bit of homework.

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Speaker 1: Fail to prepare, prepare to fail.

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Speaker 2: All them's wise words. And if you can't use your

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Speaker 2: car or you can't use the bus, jump on a horse.

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Speaker 2: I used to in the old days, probably still were

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Speaker 2: when they opened that bridge.

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Speaker 1: Is going to love that?

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Speaker 2: Could you move your horse? Try to get to work,