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Speaker 1: Now talking about roads.

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Speaker 2: One of our massive well roads is the Tiger Brenn

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Speaker 2: and Drive and Bear on a road overpass. It's now

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Speaker 2: going to be fully operational from this afternoon, meaning traffic

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Speaker 2: can now flow in all directions. The one hundred and

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Speaker 2: sixty five million dollar project aims to improve road safety,

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Speaker 2: reduce delays during peak times, and improve traffic flows for

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Speaker 2: freight connectivity. Joining me now on the line is the

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Speaker 2: Department of Logistics, Infrastructure and Infrastructure's Project Director of Transport Infrastructure,

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Speaker 2: Chris Peak.

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Speaker 1: Good morning to.

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Speaker 3: You, Chris, Good morning Katie.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for your time this morning. Mate. Does does this

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Speaker 1: mean that it's all now complete?

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Speaker 3: All the roadworks are complete? Yes, So today's a massive

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Speaker 3: milestone for the project team being able to finally allow

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Speaker 3: our road uses full access to the new interchange and

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Speaker 3: the overpusts terrific mate.

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Speaker 2: What does it mean for you and everybody else that's

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Speaker 2: been working on this project. It sounds like it's going

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Speaker 2: to be a massive milestone. People are going to be

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Speaker 2: very happy that they can drive on the road fully.

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Speaker 3: Oh yes, yes, there's a lot of satisfaction for everyone

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Speaker 3: that's participated in the project, not only the department staff,

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Speaker 3: and all the contractors staff. But they've had a huge

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Speaker 3: number of local people and companies involved in the delivery

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Speaker 3: of the project, whether that be you know, small supplies

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Speaker 3: or major subcontracts to deliver the project. Yeah, a lot

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Speaker 3: of satisfaction and it's been done and been done very well.

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Speaker 2: So talk us through it, talk me through the various

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Speaker 2: traffic flows and why it's not open until two o'clock

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Speaker 2: the SAVO.

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Speaker 3: Okay, So you know, for a good while we've had

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Speaker 3: traffic moving through the new carriageways on Tiger Brennan Drive,

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Speaker 3: both city bound and Palmerston bound. From today, the city

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Speaker 3: bound our carriageway will be speed limit will be back

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Speaker 3: to one hundred kilometers an hour full time, which is terrific.

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Speaker 3: But today, yeah, we're opening various legs of the intersection

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Speaker 3: that has had the temperate traffic management in place to

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Speaker 3: make sure people weren't going to traveling within the site,

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Speaker 3: keeping them safe and keeping the word crew safe. So

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Speaker 3: it's just the stage handover. We've livened up the traffic

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Speaker 3: signals as part of the new works, but for almost

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Speaker 3: eighteen months we've had the traffic signals down at the

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Speaker 3: wish Art and Burmer intersection pretty much on green for

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Speaker 3: the limited number of movements that have been able to

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Speaker 3: pass through there. So we've got to go down there

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Speaker 3: and liven that up. And it's just a stage process

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Speaker 3: to make sure that the traffic management is pulled out,

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Speaker 3: that the roads are clear, and it's ready for people

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Speaker 3: to come through. By two o'clock this afternoon, we should

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Speaker 3: have full access to the interchange.

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Speaker 1: Do you out there and watch it? You're like happy

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Speaker 1: to see that.

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Speaker 2: You're going to be quite happy to see the traffic

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Speaker 2: flowing everywhere.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm eating out there about one o'clock, so hopefully

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Speaker 3: everything will be done by then. It's not I'll be

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Speaker 3: just watching the ladder stages. They don't need me out there.

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Speaker 3: We've got a highly professional crew of both the contracted

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Speaker 3: side of my guys on site that are doing the

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Speaker 3: nitty gritty, don't need me interfering. But they've done a

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Speaker 3: great job planning it and they're just executing that plan.

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Speaker 3: But yes, it'll be very exciting to go out there

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Speaker 3: and seeing co operation.

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Speaker 2: What's it going to mean for drivers, you know, on

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Speaker 2: their commute to work or to school or wherever they

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Speaker 2: might be going.

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Speaker 3: Well, that the buy it's very nature being great separated.

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Speaker 3: We're taking that cross movement of traffic away from the

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Speaker 3: major traffic flows, so it's a free flow for commuters

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Speaker 3: using Tiger Bread and Drive will reduce the time that

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Speaker 3: they used to spend the traffic signals there when traffic

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Speaker 3: was flowing in the other directions, so there'll be some

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Speaker 3: time savings there. So that's the main benefits for the

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Speaker 3: title Bend and Drive people. But with less people traveling

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Speaker 3: through signalized intersections, because we've still got two signalized intersections

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Speaker 3: on Behramer Road at the high level. Now there'll be

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Speaker 3: less traffic flowing through them, so the amount of time

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Speaker 3: people were sitting at traffic signals should be reduced as well.

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Speaker 2: I've just got a message from a listener. Al had

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Speaker 2: messaged through a little while ago and he said, Katie

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Speaker 2: heading down Barramer Road and turning left to head south,

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Speaker 2: the slip lane isn't long enough for trucks to merge

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Speaker 2: into one hundred kilometers per hour traffic and needs to

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Speaker 2: be extended.

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Speaker 1: What's your message to.

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Speaker 3: Al Well, Yeah, the project's been designed in accordance with

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Speaker 3: all the required Australia's design standards, so all of those

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Speaker 3: on and off ramps meet those requirements. There's acknowledgment there.

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Speaker 3: I think you'll see that on the Tiger Bed Drive carriageway.

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Speaker 3: There is a sign there just to remind people traveling

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Speaker 3: on Tiger Bred and Drive that there will be road

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Speaker 3: trains entering for the vast majority of any given day.

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Speaker 3: There's plenty of room for trucks to merge, particularly if

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Speaker 3: people give way to them by moving into the right

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Speaker 3: hand lane to provide easier access for those slower moving

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Speaker 3: larger vehicles to merge with the main traffic flight Chris,

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Speaker 3: do we.

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Speaker 2: Know how many people generally travel on Tiger Bread and

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Speaker 2: Drive on a daily basis.

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Speaker 3: It's in the order of twenty thousand vehicles and growing. Yeah, right,

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Speaker 3: and yeah. Prior to the road class on Baram Road,

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Speaker 3: we had about eight thousand vehicles traveling on that every day.

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Speaker 2: Now, where are things that or has there been much

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Speaker 2: of an update with the emergency services access into Hidden

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Speaker 2: Valley Motorsports Complex, with the changes and with the development

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Speaker 2: there at Tiger Brennan.

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Speaker 3: Yes, we got that fully designed a contract that you've

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Speaker 3: been focusing on this last stage of the work and

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Speaker 3: in the coming weeks they'll be in there commencing those

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Speaker 3: works to make sure that they're completed in time for

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Speaker 3: the next major event, which is the VA.

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Speaker 2: Well, Chris, it sounds like it's been a busy time

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Speaker 2: and I think people are going to be really happy

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Speaker 2: the SAVO that they're able to get on Tiger Brennan

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Speaker 2: and or get the whole way home.

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Speaker 3: Indeed, yes, I hope they enjoy it, and while it's

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Speaker 3: all new, I hope they take time and drive safely

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Speaker 3: to make sure that they get used to this new

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Speaker 3: piece of rat infrastructure.

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Speaker 2: Yep. Well, Chris Pek, good to catch up with you

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Speaker 2: this morning, mate. I really appreciate your time.

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Speaker 3: No, no problem, thanks Kate.

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Speaker 1: Thank you,