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Lisa & Russell - Here's Some Surprising News, Said Nobody Ever · Lisa & Russell

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  Speaker 1: Well, no, here's some really surprising news, said nobody ever.
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  Speaker 1: Perth ranks dead last in Australia for cycle and scooter friendliness. Look,
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  Speaker 1: to be fair, they're talking about infrastructure style.
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  Speaker 2: Friendliness, not our friendliness.
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  Speaker 3: To the scooter riders. Because some of those scooter riders
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  Speaker 3: are not particularly friendly to us.
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  Speaker 2: No, that's true.
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  Speaker 1: But they're not really talking about us yelling out, ride
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  Speaker 1: a single file, you.
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  Speaker 2: Anyway.
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  Speaker 3: The rise of the scooter gang.
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  Speaker 1: Compare the market has released new data measuring the popularity
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  Speaker 1: of bike riding and related infrastructure in 120 major cities
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  Speaker 1: across the world. And six Aussie cities register on that index.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: Perth ranks 111 out of 120.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we made it in. In terms of friendliness. That's
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  Speaker 2: not bad. Well, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 3: No?
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  Speaker 1: Melbourne was crowned Australia's most bike-friendly city ahead of Sydney.
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  Speaker 2: Of course they were.
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  Speaker 1: Then Canberra, then Brisbane, then Adelaide, and then us. It
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  Speaker 1: must be noted, though, that Melbourne only scraped in at
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  Speaker 1: 83 internationally, so it's not like they were up in
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  Speaker 1: the top 10. But naturally, European cities dominated the broader list.
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  Speaker 2: Utrecht in the Netherlands topped it.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, of course the Netherlands would. I mean, they've got
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  Speaker 3: more bikes than people.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and they just share the bikes around, don't they?
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  Speaker 1: You can just sort of get on one, get off it,
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  Speaker 1: and no one, you know, doesn't, no one burns them.
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  Speaker 3: And they don't have that stuff. The big sprawling suburbs
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  Speaker 3: that we've got. No, that's exactly right. So it's completely different.
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  Speaker 1: Or the hills.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think so. Not until you get out a bit.
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  Speaker 1: That's the second consecutive year that Utrecht has been on top,
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  Speaker 1: beating out Germany's Freiburg in Breslau.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, well done.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Because I looked at that and I went, I'm not
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  Speaker 3: saying that.
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  Speaker 2: I've just said it quickly. Belgium's Ghent. Yep. Paris and
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  Speaker 2: Santiago in Chile.
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  Speaker 1: Yes. They measured three core factors. The percentage of people
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  Speaker 1: traveling regularly by bike. The number of cycling routes and
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  Speaker 1: the search interest for bike and scooter related terms.
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  Speaker 2: What you Googling? Scooter.
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  Speaker 1: Ironically, are ranking well behind Melbourne, although we have 715
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  Speaker 1: cycling routes compared to their 513.
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  Speaker 3: Just more of them are using it, I guess.
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  Speaker 2: More of them are using it.
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  Speaker 3: Well, it's more of them too.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. And you know, Again, the sprawl in Melbourne is
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  Speaker 1: not like the sprawl in Perth.
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  Speaker 3: No, we're like a really big, long city.
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  Speaker 2: We are.
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  Speaker 3: All along the coast.
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  Speaker 4: But I'd be interested to see where we came last year,
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  Speaker 4: whether we've made.
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  Speaker 3: It up the list.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe we'll be higher than 111 next year.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Everyone on your scooters, let's make ourselves up that list. Yep.
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  Speaker 3: Got to beat Adelaide at least.
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  Speaker 1: Might as well use those 715 cycling routes that we've
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  Speaker 1: got out there.
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  Speaker 3: That's right. Explore each and every one of them.
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  Speaker 2: Just keep to the left.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: And single file.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: When we grew up, and on my Malvern Star with
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  Speaker 1: the basket on the front with the flowers and streamers
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  Speaker 1: on the handlebars, we were taught very specifically you had
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  Speaker 1: to ride single file. Now you've got this Lycra strip.
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  Speaker 1: In front of you of, you know, people writing three abreast.
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  Speaker 3: Do better people.
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  Speaker 2: I hate that expression.
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  Speaker 3: All right. Single file. Let's just keep it there.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'm just wondering when the rule changed.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I don't know that it technically did. It just
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  Speaker 4: sort of, you know, people just drifted out of single
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  Speaker 4: file and, you know, three abreast, I guess. Well.