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Paul Robinson: Thorndon Quay Collective chairman on the judicial review over Wellington City Council replacing car parks with a cycleway · Best of Business

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  Speaker 2: Another business story from the capital, this time yesterday it
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  Speaker 2: was Cranfield's of course, in this crap with the council.
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  Speaker 2: Today it's the called of the appeal. They found Wellington
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  Speaker 2: Council followed the wrong processes when changing angled car parks
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  Speaker 2: to parallel one. This'sman going on for a long time
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  Speaker 2: in Thornton Key. The result fewer car parks, of course.
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  Speaker 2: Chairmen of the Thornton Key Collector Paul Robinson is well,
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  Speaker 2: there's Paul, very good morning to you. Good morning Mike,
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  Speaker 2: so a nice one in the court. But they don't
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  Speaker 2: instruct anything. So, in other words, the council don't have
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  Speaker 2: to do anything.
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  Speaker 3: Do you think they will, well, we're hopeful that they
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  Speaker 3: will agree to carry out an independent review of their
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  Speaker 3: decision making processes.
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  Speaker 2: Problem was the problem was they had public consultation and
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  Speaker 2: all that proves is that they don't care about public
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  Speaker 2: consultation because they went ahead and did what they want
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  Speaker 2: to do anyway, didn't.
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  Speaker 3: They Well they did, they did. And you know we
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  Speaker 3: have three areas of real concerned. Firstly, is the safety
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  Speaker 3: data they relied on seemed to be heavily skewed. Secondly,
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  Speaker 3: they declined our petition back in twenty and twenty one
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  Speaker 3: to have an economic assessment carried out of the impact
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  Speaker 3: of business. And thirdly, we've had this issue come up
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  Speaker 3: with the one hundred and ten year old pipes underneath
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  Speaker 3: the underneath this very expensive infrastructure they're building, and it
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  Speaker 3: just seems to be in complete out of unwillingness to
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  Speaker 3: look at it, whether that's an issue or not. Are
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  Speaker 3: they incompetent, Well, they've demonstrated in competence.
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  Speaker 2: Should it ever have got to court. I mean, for
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  Speaker 2: God's sake, it's just to councilors and cow pikes. Why
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  Speaker 2: does it end up in court?
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  Speaker 3: That's a depressing thought, Mike. Back in twenty twelve, we
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  Speaker 3: had this wonderful interaction with council where we agreed that
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  Speaker 3: it would be sensible to introduce the seven to nine
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  Speaker 3: clearly going into town and that reduced the incident eight
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  Speaker 3: by fifty percent. And there's been no efforts since let's
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  Speaker 3: keept wing to moving came along. There's just been this
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  Speaker 3: refusal to consider, perhaps say, for instance, introducing a four
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  Speaker 3: to six clearway coming out of town in the night.
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  Speaker 3: They could have resolved all these safety issues with a
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  Speaker 3: few tens of thousands of dollars, not fifty eight million dollars.
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  Speaker 2: It's unbelievable, isn't it. We'll go well with it, Paul,
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  Speaker 2: and I hope the meeting goes well, and I hope
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  Speaker 2: they acquiesce and they apologize and actually sort the problem out.
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  Speaker 2: Paul Robinson is with the Thornt and Key Collective Chairman.
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