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Muy Chhour: Karangahape Road Business Association chair voices disapproval with AT's new 'bus to the mall' campaign · Best of Business

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  Speaker 2: Organ Transport has been forced to take down ads that
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  Speaker 2: encourage people to bust to the mall after pushback from
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  Speaker 2: small businesses. The posters were put up throughout Auckland's small
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  Speaker 2: retail villages saying jingle bus, Jingle bus, jingle to the mall.
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  Speaker 2: Excuse me, this is terrible, but it continues. Oh what
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  Speaker 2: fun it is to ride with no parking queues at all.
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  Speaker 2: Mois Shore is with us. She's the k Road business
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  Speaker 2: owner and chairperson of the Care Road Business Association. Moy
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  Speaker 2: good afternoon, good afternoon. What's wrong with that jingle? It
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  Speaker 2: sounds like inspired.
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  Speaker 3: Inspired if you work at the malls or look you
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  Speaker 3: are the malls. But it's a bit of a kick
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  Speaker 3: in the guts if you're a local business owner and
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  Speaker 3: the local business precincts. So yeah, it's not good at all.
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  Speaker 3: It Tana shares the relationships with business districts and Aucklandry Transport,
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  Speaker 3: so it takes away the customers from local businesses and
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  Speaker 3: takes them to the mall where you know, the malls
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  Speaker 3: make huge amounts of money, and and it appears that
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  Speaker 3: Auckland Transport almost bent on making sure that the molls
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  Speaker 3: make even more money. So it's really really unfortunate that
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  Speaker 3: they've put all those posts all around Auckland, especially in
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  Speaker 3: our local presects like Kingsland right right. They put them
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  Speaker 3: right in our face, in our face. It's not good
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  Speaker 3: at all. It's a bit of a kick in the gap.
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  Speaker 2: Do you worry though, because this is essentially what they want,
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  Speaker 2: isn't it. You know, Auckland Transport, and you know they've
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  Speaker 2: been sort of emasculated just recently, but this is what
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  Speaker 2: councils want. They want us to be getting public transport
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  Speaker 2: to one big area to shop, rather than you know,
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  Speaker 2: all driving our cars to go to lots of different
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  Speaker 2: places like k Road.
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  Speaker 3: No. No, I mean, if you've got public transport, you
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  Speaker 3: can get public transport to your local shops. You know,
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  Speaker 3: we've got some pastic local businesses. They're offer great Christmas gifts,
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  Speaker 3: you know, So I would actually push back on that.
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  Speaker 3: You know, yes, they are trying to, I agree, get
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  Speaker 3: us out of our cars, but if they trying to
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  Speaker 3: get us out of our cars and to buses or
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  Speaker 3: trains and whatnot. Then they can clearly advertise to go
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  Speaker 3: to your local shops to get your Christmas gifts or yea,
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  Speaker 3: these toes there, so you know their strategy, their way
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  Speaker 3: of thinking is not quite right. And I think it
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  Speaker 3: doesn't help when they clearly advertise to go to them all.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, it doesn't help you guys. I can see
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  Speaker 2: exactly where you're coming from. Moy Do they get some
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  Speaker 2: brownie points for taking the post? I understand they've partially
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  Speaker 2: covered up some of them and they are taking the
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  Speaker 2: rest of them down. Do they Do they get some
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  Speaker 2: brownie points from you for that?
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  Speaker 1: No?
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  Speaker 3: No, not at all, not at all. The damage has
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  Speaker 3: been done supposed you know that's been up. People have
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  Speaker 3: seen them that They're not small, they're huge. You know,
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  Speaker 3: the damage has been done. Really, Auckland Transport need to
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  Speaker 3: give some good faith back to local businesses and maybe
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  Speaker 3: perhaps put free busses to the local shopping centers or
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  Speaker 3: maybe double the advertising to go to your local shopping centers,
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  Speaker 3: you know, and support your local businesses. So I don't
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  Speaker 3: think just covering them up is a sign of any
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  Speaker 3: good faith. It's like, oh, we've really screwed up here,
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  Speaker 3: and let's try and rectify a mistakes by covering it up.
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  Speaker 3: That's not really any browning points. The damage has been done, all.
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  Speaker 2: Right boy, It sounds like there is no redemption from you.
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  Speaker 2: I appreciate you your time, Merry Christmas, and I hope
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  Speaker 2: that you pick up some business off the back of
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  Speaker 2: this interview. Mature with us. She is the K Road
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  Speaker 2: business owner and chairperson of the CA Road Business Association
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  Speaker 2: in Auckland Council. There basically putting up posters saying go
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  Speaker 2: to the mall, and you can understand why she wouldn't
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  Speaker 2: like that.
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