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Matt Hepworth spoke with Listener Jas on the Litchfield Signs · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: But right now we're opening the phone lines up to you.
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  Speaker 1: Eight nine four one one O four nine is the
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  Speaker 1: number I've got Jason the line, get a Jason.
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  Speaker 2: Here are you going? Maddy?
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  Speaker 1: Good mate? I believe you've seen some signs that have
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  Speaker 1: been knocked down towards Litchfield. Is that right?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? Look, I go out to Litchfield Wow weekly sort
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  Speaker 2: every week or so, and a few months ago it
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  Speaker 2: was going out there and nearly all the signs were
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  Speaker 2: knocked down, all the like the you know, the speed
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  Speaker 2: recommended speed signs, how fast together around this bend or
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  Speaker 2: incline or decline? All the signs warning signs along the
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  Speaker 2: road were knocked over, like looked like a car driven
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  Speaker 2: over them or smashed them up or whatever, like the
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  Speaker 2: sign you know. I took a couple of photos of
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  Speaker 2: a few of the I went out there last week,
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  Speaker 2: and I was sort of happy to see that a
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  Speaker 2: lot of the signs were replaced with new signs. But
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  Speaker 2: traveling along is someone's been out there and knocked the
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  Speaker 2: new signs over.
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  Speaker 1: Jae, what a what a stupid act?
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's dangerous and reach one of our duels in
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  Speaker 2: the Crown Parks and we've got a lot of people
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  Speaker 2: up here going to see that place. It's always packed
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  Speaker 2: out there, and you've got silly stuff like that. It's
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  Speaker 2: costing us money.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, And we've heard reports on this program before that
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot of issues with the signing Jadic Kakadu
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  Speaker 1: National Park, and I believe the federal government were pumping
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  Speaker 1: some money into that to try to get them fixed up.
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  Speaker 1: But like you said, a lot of tourists travel out there,
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  Speaker 1: and particularly ones that might not know the road conditions
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  Speaker 1: as well. I mean, I know the speed limit varies
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  Speaker 1: along Litchfield Park Road as opposed to say the Stuart Highway.
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  Speaker 1: Like you said, it's quite undulating. There's ups and downs,
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  Speaker 1: and look, if you don't know those road conditions, it
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  Speaker 1: could be bloody dangerous without those signs.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think, say, like, I know the raids quite well,
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  Speaker 2: so I'm only sort of sitting on eighty k's but
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  Speaker 2: sometimes you go and slower and it's good to know
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  Speaker 2: that there's a there's a sleep bend coming up, or
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  Speaker 2: you like a sharp bend, or a steep incline or
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  Speaker 2: a decline. It's it's it could be dangerous if you
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  Speaker 2: didn't know it, especially the seasonal conditions. Now the raid
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  Speaker 2: might slippery raining, So I didn't know if it was
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  Speaker 2: to do with the crime season that Humpty do or
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  Speaker 2: it's related or you know, it would have to be
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  Speaker 2: the same person going out knocking the signs over again.
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying, yeah, are they I don't know if you know?
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  Speaker 1: Are they? Are they steal poles? Like if you didn't
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  Speaker 1: have a good quality bull bar, I mean imagine you'd
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  Speaker 1: do a bit of damage.
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  Speaker 2: I reckon, I reckon it would like you could see
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  Speaker 2: on one of the photos there. I only took a
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  Speaker 2: photo with a couple of signs sow they coming back
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  Speaker 2: with a sort of bit stretch for time. But one
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  Speaker 2: of them you can see it's like brand new concrete
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  Speaker 2: around it. It's a brand new sign and they've just
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  Speaker 2: gone and trashed it. I can't understand the mentality of
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  Speaker 2: people to do that, but it was disappointing to see
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  Speaker 2: that they'd done it after someone had gone out and
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  Speaker 2: fixed it, and that would have been quite great expense
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  Speaker 2: and an effort to get out there and fix those signs.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's bloody disappointing to hear. And have they fixed
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  Speaker 1: some of them up now?
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  Speaker 2: I haven't been back since last week. Most of them
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  Speaker 2: were fixed, but they look like they were going through
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  Speaker 2: knocking to more of them down again. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: how combat something like that. It's pretty hard to have
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  Speaker 2: a police officer out there patrolling all the time.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, well that's what we've heard this morning. You know,
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  Speaker 1: reports have only one patrol car to service the Humpty
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  Speaker 1: Do area with residents concerned about a crime spark at
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  Speaker 1: the moment. So yeah, it would be it would be tough.
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  Speaker 1: My producer Ronnie's just yeah, sent these signs through. I
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  Speaker 1: can see what you mean. Someone's just completely knocked them over.
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  Speaker 1: And even what's left of them. I'm looking at one
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  Speaker 1: here where the sixty kilometer an hour around the bend sign.
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  Speaker 1: It's completely warped. I mean, you have to have to
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  Speaker 1: throw that away and start again. It's not just a
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  Speaker 1: case of putting it back up.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, there were others, but I just didn't get far
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  Speaker 2: as of them. I just got a couple, and I
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  Speaker 2: actually met these three to you last week. But I
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  Speaker 2: heard that there was an accident that which field on
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  Speaker 2: the radio and football wonder if this was the reason why.
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  Speaker 2: Contributing factor.
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  Speaker 1: Man, that's a very good point, and I mean, I
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  Speaker 1: really am. I certainly hope that's not well. Thank you
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  Speaker 1: for letting us know, and I mean was. On one hand,
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  Speaker 1: it's good to hear that some of them are being
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  Speaker 1: fixed up. Let's certainly hope it's not, you know, a
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  Speaker 1: repeat offense. Jays. I have to leave it there, mate.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you so much for your call and sitting through
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  Speaker 1: those photos as well. I appreciate it.