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Urmila Bhana: Independent Business and Residential Group chairwoman on the Greens getting caught asking to use private carparks after their cycleway impacted parking · Best of Business

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  Speaker 2: Yeah. So, as I told you before, the Greens have
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  Speaker 2: been busted asking to use the private car parks of
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  Speaker 2: some Wellington retailers for a party in Wellington, which is
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  Speaker 2: so hypocritical because they were the ones who took the
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  Speaker 2: car parking away so they could build one of their
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  Speaker 2: favorite little cycle ways in the area. Right. Irmila Barner
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  Speaker 2: is the chairwoman of the Independent Business and Residential Group.
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  Speaker 2: And for the record, not the green Grocer, but the
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  Speaker 2: what IERMLA, the General Grocer, the General Grosser, because the
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  Speaker 2: green Grocer is on side with the Greens? Am I right?
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  Speaker 3: Mm hmmm?
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  Speaker 2: And not you though, No, why not?
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  Speaker 3: I guess I have a Shakespearean relationship with the cycle lanes.
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  Speaker 2: Why do you call it Shakespearean?
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  Speaker 3: Well? How much do I love thee I mean, you know,
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  Speaker 3: we've got a spectrum out here which is pretty dire.
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  Speaker 3: Businesses are down sixty eighty one hundred percent, either moving,
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  Speaker 3: closing or heading into liquidation. And that's nothing to do
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  Speaker 3: with recession. It's the car park remover. And you sort
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  Speaker 3: of like, hello.
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  Speaker 2: How do you know though, because I mean, like I did,
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  Speaker 2: it's difficult for everybody, right, So how do you know
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  Speaker 2: that it's the cycle Way doing it well?
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  Speaker 3: In new Town? We were ahead of the pack. Went
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  Speaker 3: in two years ago and businesses were already reporting that
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  Speaker 3: dire situation. The Newtown's been the cycle Aid's been planted,
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  Speaker 3: the parks have been removed. It's a ghost town. Like
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  Speaker 3: you know, the uber drivers don't like getting into Hospow
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  Speaker 3: because there's fucking traffic to try and get here. So
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  Speaker 3: the meals that are going out to sup poor residences
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  Speaker 3: that want to eat are cold. What did you think that?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? What did you think when you heard that TAMOTHA
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  Speaker 2: Paul and Julian Enters staff has been going around asking
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  Speaker 2: to use private car parks have affected businesses?
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  Speaker 3: What did I think? Well? You know, what do they
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  Speaker 3: say about hypocrisy? There's no forgiveness for that sort of evil?
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  Speaker 3: Is there really?
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  Speaker 2: Quite? Right? Do you know anything about the situation? Because
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  Speaker 2: I had heard that they had asked this office had
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  Speaker 2: asked for the council to redesignate a couple of car
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  Speaker 2: parks around the corner from their office, to make them
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  Speaker 2: shorter terms so that their visitors could use them. Did
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  Speaker 2: you hear about that?
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  Speaker 3: Well, rumor has it that during a break at the
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  Speaker 3: Regulatory Process meeting on the eighteenth of April, Jordie Rodgers
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  Speaker 3: was speaking to the senior Wellington City Council offices with
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  Speaker 3: the current Green Deputy Mayor, Lourie Boone about parking for
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  Speaker 3: the Green MPs on King Street and King Streets the
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  Speaker 3: side street of Adelaide Road. So we're all sitting here
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  Speaker 3: in Newtown as residents. There's business owners outpatients, hospital workers
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  Speaker 3: thinking well, hang on, we can't get to work because
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  Speaker 3: of you. We can't get to the hospital because of you.
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  Speaker 3: We can't get to the businesses we like when we
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  Speaker 3: want to because of you. So this whole thing is
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  Speaker 3: hypocritical and underscored with a golden pen. Ridiculous.
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  Speaker 2: Was that the eighteenth of April?
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  Speaker 1: Was it?
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  Speaker 3: Apparently? So that's the rumor. So I've chased it up
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  Speaker 3: with one of the senior counselors, so hopefully we'll get
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  Speaker 3: a response shortly.
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  Speaker 2: Irmla, thank you very much and best of luck fighting
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  Speaker 2: this absolutely brain dead situation. That's Irmla Barna, the chairwoman
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  Speaker 2: of the Independent Business and Residential Group. I just remind
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  Speaker 2: you so the conversation happens between Jordie and Laurie on
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  Speaker 2: the eighteenth of April at the regulatory meeting. But what
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  Speaker 2: did the Greens say to me in the statement? There
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  Speaker 2: have been no formal discussions with the Council in regards
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  Speaker 2: to using parking on King Street. No formal discussions, but
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  Speaker 2: the informal ones They work though.
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