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Ryan Bridge: A theory on the record low road toll · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: The road toll currently sitting at zero for the long weekend,
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  Speaker 1: we are still technically in the road toll period. It
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  Speaker 1: ends at six o'clock. Six people died last Labor weekend,
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  Speaker 1: which is a tragedy the road toll so far, and
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  Speaker 1: if we hold out, if you're safe on the roads
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  Speaker 1: for the next half an hour, it will be the
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  Speaker 1: lowest Labor weekend toll since twenty thirteen we've had when
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  Speaker 1: we had one death on the roads. Why do we
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  Speaker 1: think this is Why do we think this has happened
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  Speaker 1: this particular weekend. Is it the road to zero that
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  Speaker 1: the previous government introduced, Is that the fact we've had
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  Speaker 1: some road upgrades, some potholes fixed potentially, or is it
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  Speaker 1: just random stats? You know, we should really be looking
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  Speaker 1: at annual averages, not weekend blips which can jump around
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  Speaker 1: a bit, a bit like as I was talking to
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  Speaker 1: Andrew Ordison about earlier, a bit like our weekend of
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  Speaker 1: sport last weekend, which was a bit of a con job.
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  Speaker 1: It just so happened we had a bunch of sporting
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  Speaker 1: finals on the same weekend. It wasn't like we were,
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  Speaker 1: you know, compared aring apples with apples like an Olympics tournament.
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  Speaker 1: Was it so? Was it one of those situations? Oh,
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  Speaker 1: and here's my theory. We didn't really travel much this weekend.
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  Speaker 1: And this is based on nothing other than my own experience.
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  Speaker 1: But I was on Wahiki Island at the weekend and
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  Speaker 1: enjoying the long weekend. Beaches were nowhere near as full
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  Speaker 1: as they would normally be, and this was on the
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  Speaker 1: good day when the weather was nice. Restaurants same story,
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  Speaker 1: The wineries of vineyards weren't as busy. Is the cost
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  Speaker 1: of living crisis affecting our travel? I think it is.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's having a big impact. Did you go
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  Speaker 1: away this weekend? Did you pack the car, take the kids?
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  Speaker 1: Were you driving safely? Was there lots of traffic? What
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  Speaker 1: was your experience? That is one theory I have as
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  Speaker 1: to why our road toll is currently sitting at zero.
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