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Good afternoon. I'm Wendy Petrie and this is your afternoon
news fix for Tuesday, the twenty seventh of August. Auckland
Council has canceled its contract with e scooter operator Beam
and ordered it to deactivate all vehicles by midnight. Must
remove all of them from Auckland streets by five pm Friday.
Council reporter Jacob Jones, that's the story.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
The Council's accused Beam of deploying too many scooters and
concealing it by providing misleading data, and has referred it
to the police licensing. An Environmental health manager, Morvin Chetty
sees limits on scooter numbers for the safety of footpath
users and to prevent nuisance.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Beam has been approached for comment. The act leader says
posters don't have the right to censor information to the public.
R and Z reports Wellington posters have refused to deliver
pamphlets containing misinformation. They're from political campaign group Better Wellington
and reportedly contain assertions about wasteful council spending and city
wide speed limits. David Seymour says government employees have a
(01:04):
job to fulfill their contract.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
It is absolutely not the right of any union to
tell members of the public what they can and can't hear.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Auckland police are asking the public to recognize people who
helped after yesterday's horror crash on the Southern Motorway and
ignore those who filmed it. They've confirmed three sal Worn
seasonal workers were killed when a truck smashed through the
wire medium barrier after blowing out a tire, hitting their
van and two other vehicles. Counties Monaco inspector Tony Wakelan
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says one motorist live stream to the aftermath as they
drove past. He said they should show more empathy, and
I say to.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
The people that are filming that, how'd you feel if
that's your family?
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Is your family in that vehicle and someone a relative
saw them at the scene deceased?
Speaker 2 (01:48):
How would you feel?
Speaker 1 (01:50):
A New Studies shone a light on Kiwi's media habits
Ends It on Air, says global video platforms like YouTube
reach sixty four percent of New Zealanders each day and
forty nine b sent stream music daily. Sixty percent engage
with local TV, and just over half used subscription services
like Netflix. Kiwi's over sixty engage with TV and radio.
(02:10):
The most TV and Z and staff for the most
popular news outlets and newstalk zb PIPPED R and Z
national in daily reach. New Zealand is nearly one hundred
and fifty billion dollars worth of infrastructure projects on the horizon.
The list of all current and planned projects including roads,
schools and water as labeled the National Infrastructure Pipeline. Thomas
(02:31):
Rice reports.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
The pipelines managed by the Infrastructure Commission and Infrastructure Minister
Chris Bishop says almost sixty percent of the projects are
already partly or fully funded. This is the June pipeline estimate,
talied up to one hundred and forty seven billion dollars,
up more than twenty percent on March's total.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Bishop will be making a significant infrastructure announcement tomorrow. Do
sport in assemble Lulu. Soon after the Key were tennis
players first, the US Open came to an early end.
The upper leg injury has forced the world number forty
one to withdraw after losing the first set of her
opening round match against Italy's Lucia Bronzetti in New York.
(03:12):
Locke tu I knows the relentless task that awaits the
All Blacks in South Africa as the team prepares for
Sunday's first test at Alice Park and Johannesburg and catcher
Danny Jensen's become the first player in Major League Baseball
history to play for both teams in the same game
and the same innings. I'm Wendy Ptre. That's you latest
(03:34):
news fix. We'll be back with the next update tomorrow morning.
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