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Hugh Goddard: Pipeline & Civil Ltd owner on the increase in road rage at traffic stops · Best of Business

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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 3: Road rage at traffic stops is apparently getting out of control.
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  Speaker 3: A new sector survey shows that two thirds of New
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  Speaker 3: Zealand's traffic controllers a coppying abuse on a weekly basis,
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  Speaker 3: and one in five traffic workers one in five have
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  Speaker 3: been physically assaulted in the last year, with some even
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  Speaker 3: being struck by vehicles. Now, Hugh Gotad as the owner
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  Speaker 3: of Pipeline and Civil, which is a maintenance and repair
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  Speaker 3: company and with us.
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  Speaker 2: Now, hey Hugh, Hey there, Heather, thanks for having me one,
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  Speaker 2: thanks for joining us.
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  Speaker 3: Have your workers experienced this kind of thing?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a real challenge out there across the wide
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  Speaker 4: industry as well as an Arab business.
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  Speaker 2: So, I mean we've had staff being yelled at.
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  Speaker 4: You know, almost hit you know, by vehicles on the road,
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  Speaker 4: and and even you know, to the point of almost
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  Speaker 4: physical abuse.
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  Speaker 2: Certainly a lot of verbal abuse.
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  Speaker 4: Drivers moving cons into live lanes while cars are coming
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  Speaker 4: in the other way.
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  Speaker 2: Just quite challenge of behavior out there.
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  Speaker 3: Is it as like as frequently as the survey suggests.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely.
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  Speaker 4: I think, you know, I wasn't involved in development the survey,
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  Speaker 4: but I know over seven hundred TTM workers in New
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  Speaker 4: Zealand responded to the survey, which is which is a
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  Speaker 4: significant sample, and and that's the feedback that's coming through.
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  Speaker 2: So it's very much a real issue.
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  Speaker 3: What's causing it? Why are people behaving like this?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I just wonder whether I mean, there's obviously been
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  Speaker 4: a big discussion topic in the media and in the
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  Speaker 4: public around heavy traffic management, and you know, you know,
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  Speaker 4: people are frustrated, which which is totally understandable. You know,
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  Speaker 4: they see you know, cons and and they obviously see
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  Speaker 4: red at the same time.
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  Speaker 2: And I think it's you know, it is a challenge
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  Speaker 2: out there, but I.
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  Speaker 4: Think it's sort of trying to reframe this thinking to
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  Speaker 4: look at investment and infrastructure as a positive and roadworks
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  Speaker 4: as being part of that.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, is it So? Are you saying it's just a
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  Speaker 3: general frustration with the sheer number of cones that we
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  Speaker 3: see rather than something that that particular road worker is doing.
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  Speaker 3: All that particular is happening at that particular site.
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  Speaker 2: I believe.
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  Speaker 4: So I think that, you know, and there's also I
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  Speaker 4: guess challenges around you know, whether.
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  Speaker 2: The site is active. You know, could be a night.
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  Speaker 4: Work site that's just being maintained during the day and
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  Speaker 4: they and they obviously can't they have to leave the
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  Speaker 4: TTM equipment on the road, so you know, they think
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  Speaker 4: nothing's happening, but actually, you know, there are works occurring,
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  Speaker 4: or you know this the ship seal of the surfacing
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  Speaker 4: is being is curing or things like that, which which
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  Speaker 4: obviously can't cause frustration, especially if they don't see things
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  Speaker 4: happening at that moment in time.
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  Speaker 2: But it's certainly I mean, these are real people.
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  Speaker 4: They're like you or I, trying to do a job,
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  Speaker 4: trying to earn a cross, to feed their families. You know,
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  Speaker 4: they're not going out of their way to you know,
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  Speaker 4: stop people getting to them from work or affect their lives.
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  Speaker 3: I'd like to think that most people are actually decent,
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  Speaker 3: maybe a little frustrated, but decent about it and understanding
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  Speaker 3: it's just a few bad eggs letting us down.
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  Speaker 4: What do you think, Well, I think that's certain an aspect,
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  Speaker 4: but the volume of ROLD work abuse has definitely seen
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  Speaker 4: an increase, and I think it's an area that needs
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  Speaker 4: to be addressed and we need public support in doing that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Hugh, it's good to talk to you. Thank you
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  Speaker 3: very much. Appreciate it, mate. That's you got to add
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  Speaker 3: Pipeline and Civil Limited owner.
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