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Ryan Bridge: Don't hold your breath for a new Harbour crossing, Auckland · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: So we've been waiting for decades for somebody, anybody to
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  Speaker 1: build a new bridge or tunnel or pretty much anything
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  Speaker 1: across Auckland's harbor. The consultant bill now one hundred million
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  Speaker 1: dollars across the current National and former Labour governments. The
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  Speaker 1: most galling part of that, of course, was the fifty
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  Speaker 1: million spent on consultants for Labour's plan to put a
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  Speaker 1: one billion dollar cycling only bridge over the harbor. Remember that.
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  Speaker 1: Can you imagine sitting in a car on the bridge
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  Speaker 1: in peak hour traffic, looking across the whitee matar and
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  Speaker 1: seeing a gold plated bike bridge being constructed with no
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  Speaker 1: option for driving madness. Those living in outer urban areas
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  Speaker 1: of Auckland, eighty percent of them commute to work by car,
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  Speaker 1: So we're one hundred million down. A lot of the
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  Speaker 1: old promises, we're told didn't even involve anybody going to
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  Speaker 1: have a look at the seafloor to investigate. All just
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  Speaker 1: done on computer at home, some computer modeling the barge
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  Speaker 1: and the harbor that we've talked about on the show
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  Speaker 1: previously with Wayne Brown. That's apparently doing some actual testing,
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  Speaker 1: which has got to be a good thing. We now
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  Speaker 1: have three plans or options on the go, a new
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  Speaker 1: study on the costs, the time frame, the benefits of
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  Speaker 1: a bridge or a tunnel. By the way, the NDTA
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  Speaker 1: board preferred a tunnel, a new one million dollar mile
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  Speaker 1: of reef study as a sop to Wayne Brown, and
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  Speaker 1: a private consortium with an idea we know very little
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  Speaker 1: about at this point. For anyone about to hit rush
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  Speaker 1: our traffic this morning, please don't hold your breath for
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  Speaker 1: any quick fixes or even decisions on anything crossing the
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  Speaker 1: bridge anytime soon. For more from Early Edition with Ryan Bridge,
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