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Dom Kalasih: Transporting NZ chief executive says Thorndon Quay raised crossings will cause major issues for heavy vehicles · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: The Transport Coalition is calling for Wellington Council to rethink
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  Speaker 1: the raised crossings that they're proposing for Thornton Key that
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  Speaker 1: get this, five raised crossings in a one point seven
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  Speaker 1: kilometer stretch of road. The coalition says that the crossings
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  Speaker 1: can cause damage to large passenger vehicles and freight vehicles
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  Speaker 1: and an increased risk for delays and disruptions for your
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  Speaker 1: emergency services that's your ambulances and your fire service. Dom
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  Speaker 1: Klasi is the interim CEO of Transporting New Zealand, they
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  Speaker 1: look after road freight. He's with me this morning, doom.
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  Speaker 1: How slow would a truck have to have to slow
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  Speaker 1: down to to get over one of these things?
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  Speaker 2: What city council is saying is they want vehicles to
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  Speaker 2: slow down to about thirty kilometers an hour. So they're
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  Speaker 2: actually going to put signs up to.
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  Speaker 1: Say there right, and will trucks have to go even
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  Speaker 1: slower than that? You know, big ones?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Look, particularly if they've got free job cargo on board.
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  Speaker 2: You know, every time you go over a sharp bump
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  Speaker 2: and you do need to slow down otherwise.
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  Speaker 1: You can damage the ca So we're talking like five crossings,
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  Speaker 1: five raised crossings you'd be going ten k's over these
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  Speaker 1: crossings or something like that.
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  Speaker 2: If you've got that would make it comfortable. And we're
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  Speaker 2: just carrying freight. Think about all the people and buses
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  Speaker 2: and ambulances and ambulances. You know, people could be on
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  Speaker 2: their way to hospital and they're going over these bumps.
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  Speaker 2: It's not very nice.
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  Speaker 1: No, And also, I mean foreign emergency is said that
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  Speaker 1: it could add fifty to sixty seconds delayed to their
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  Speaker 1: response time, which may not sound like much, but in
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  Speaker 1: a life or death situation, and you're tak into account
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  Speaker 1: that their target is eight minutes to get to an.
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  Speaker 2: Event absolutely end. I think it might be aware fans
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  Speaker 2: they get involved in providing CPR when ambulance can't, So
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  Speaker 2: you know that's even more critical.
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  Speaker 1: Is this in terms of freight, because that's your area
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  Speaker 1: of expertise. Is this a busy road?
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  Speaker 2: It is? And look, if I understand the typically the
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  Speaker 2: about eleven thousand vehicles going down there each day, and
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  Speaker 2: I suspect about sixteen percent of those, so it's somewhere
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  Speaker 2: around the eighteen hundred vehicles a day are freight vehicles
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  Speaker 2: that would have to slow down five times, regardless of
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  Speaker 2: whether they've got right of way through the site through
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  Speaker 2: their signal.
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  Speaker 1: Is the counsel listening to you, guys, Do you think
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  Speaker 1: that there's a chance they will change things?
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  Speaker 2: Well, we're spoked. Actually, the mayor wrote to our coalition
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  Speaker 2: yesterday acknowledging that there needs to be a balance of
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  Speaker 2: all factors when considering these sorts of thing. So we're
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  Speaker 2: looking forward to that discussion.
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  Speaker 1: Better late than never, i suppose, Dom. Thank you very
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  Speaker 1: much for your time. That's Don Calesi who's with the
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  Speaker 1: Transport Group, sorry, the coalition, i should say, group of
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  Speaker 1: transport representatives who aren't basically saying this is going to
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  Speaker 1: slow us down too much. He's in from CEO of
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  Speaker 1: Transporting News.
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