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Viv Beck: Heart of the City CEO on CRL to open with fewer peak passengers than originally forecast · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Is the number of commuters speaking of Auckland using Auckland's
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  Speaker 1: News City rail Link from next year to travel in
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  Speaker 1: and out of the city could be much lower than
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  Speaker 1: first thought. It was meant to be twenty seven thousand
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  Speaker 1: a peak. Latest forecasts revised down now just nineteen thousand
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  Speaker 1: commutts expected for beck CEO Heart of the city with
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  Speaker 1: me this morning, Hey, viv Hello, Are you worried about
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  Speaker 1: the forecast coming down like that?
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely? I mean, seriously, it's a relief to be actually
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  Speaker 2: talking about opening, but the numbers are really concerning and
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  Speaker 2: on the fate of it, this won't take us back
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  Speaker 2: to the numbers we had before construction started.
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  Speaker 1: So we've spent five point six billion dollars for.
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  Speaker 2: What well, I mean, I think people are positive about
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  Speaker 2: the CRL. It will bring people quicker and faster into
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  Speaker 2: potential city, all those things. However, talking about financial viability
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  Speaker 2: has to extend the people affected for the last decade,
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  Speaker 2: and also we've got to be sensible about how people
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  Speaker 2: get here. We need people to be able to get here.
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  Speaker 2: There's been an absolute obsession to remove cars. Taxis make
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  Speaker 2: it difficult on many many levels. And if these numbers
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  Speaker 2: are telling us. We're going to be way down and
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  Speaker 2: what was proposed, and there's a major problem. There has
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  Speaker 2: to be accountability and there has to be a major
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  Speaker 2: change in how access and business impacts are managed in
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  Speaker 2: the CEA Center.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, because when they brought this out, they said we
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  Speaker 1: would get twenty seven thousand at peak. To quote them,
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  Speaker 1: this is kibiral. This is all part of the funding,
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  Speaker 1: all part of enabling the sour Ol Day one capacity
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  Speaker 1: increased to twenty seven thousand passion trips. I mean they
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  Speaker 1: told us that number when they were wanting the money
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  Speaker 1: and the public support, and now that we're nearly finished,
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  Speaker 1: they are actually saying no, no, no, we don't want
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  Speaker 1: to oversupply. This has just been I mean, what is this.
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  Speaker 2: Oh look, it's outrageous at fifty four thousand was the
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  Speaker 2: number that was first out and I know a number
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  Speaker 2: of businesses remember that figure very very clearly, and there
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  Speaker 2: were changes is made to get to the capacity. Now
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  Speaker 2: it clearly looks like we're going to have to grow
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  Speaker 2: into this. And you know, we're optimistic looking out, but
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  Speaker 2: right here and now, the financial impact it has been
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  Speaker 2: as incredibly hard as I'm sure you will recall. To
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  Speaker 2: get the financial impacts on the businesses effective even listened to,
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  Speaker 2: let alone any sort of decent support for them. So
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  Speaker 2: it's pretty rich to hear this now, and I do
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  Speaker 2: think there needs to be accountability. Look, we are really
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  Speaker 2: concerned with how access business impacts have been managed for
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  Speaker 2: a very long time. Here we keep getting you know,
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  Speaker 2: it gets fobbed away as this is all going to
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  Speaker 2: come right when this thing opens. It's clearly going to
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  Speaker 2: take time to get to the numbers needed. And it's
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  Speaker 2: not okay that the effects they've had. I mean, the
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  Speaker 2: real is you look at some of the streets, they've
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  Speaker 2: basically compromised access for people with a nobility disabilities needing
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  Speaker 2: service and loading, and there's some extraordinarily bad decisions that
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  Speaker 2: have been made on the basis at by day one,
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  Speaker 2: we need this thing perfect.
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  Speaker 1: VIVI appreciate your time this morning, Vivi Beck, Heart of
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  Speaker 1: the City, Chief Executive twenty For
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