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Andrew Dickens: The new Minister of Transport has his head screwed on · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: I like to take the time to applaud the outbreak
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  Speaker 1: of common sense exhibited by Chris Bishop, the new Minister
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  Speaker 1: of Transport. He has decided to revisit some of the
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  Speaker 1: blanket speed limits imposed by his government in the wake
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  Speaker 1: of concerns by locals. Can I just say it's his
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  Speaker 1: government that does the blanket speed limits. They are the
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  Speaker 1: ones who said fifty one hundred or one ten over
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  Speaker 1: all roads, no matter the condition of the roads or
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  Speaker 1: their usage, and they use the blanket speed limit phrase
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  Speaker 1: as a vote catcher at the election. But the old
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  Speaker 1: government actually left most speed limits in the hands of
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  Speaker 1: local authorities, their roads, their rules. The Labor government issued
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  Speaker 1: a schedule of over three hundred sections of road on
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  Speaker 1: the state highway network, which are the only roads they control.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, there were those, but that central was put
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  Speaker 1: in place over dangerous roads, mainly around rural schools who
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  Speaker 1: are concerned at motors screaming past at pickup time at
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  Speaker 1: one hundred k Now, Chris Bishop has come out and
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  Speaker 1: indicated he's going to listen to local concerns, which is
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  Speaker 1: a good thing because until you use a road, you
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  Speaker 1: don't know what an appropriate limit is. There's no way
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  Speaker 1: a central government bureaucrat locked up and Wellington has any
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  Speaker 1: idea of the local reality. Ask the people about how
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  Speaker 1: they feel about the roads. And that's what Chris is doing,
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  Speaker 1: which is smart and that's a good thing. Congratulations Chris.
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