route,

without actually defining that it is one particular road.

So yes, we need to have another road or another route, but more importantly, we need to have a really good long-term solution.

He sped up with NZTA.

If it was up to me, individually, as the mayor, if I had the autonomy, I would sue NZTA for a succession of failures all these years.

I would litigate and say, you have let down the people of Taranaki.

Therefore, you're effectively costing us a million dollars a day.

I'd sue them.

My understanding is that it might have been 100 vehicles, but there were hundreds of people involved.

Yeah, that's correct.

And let's be very clear, there's two things going on here with this.

there's groups of these people, young men generally, if the young ladies, they want to impress, right? Because that's what half of it's about.

We all know that, right? We were all young once.

And they do organise what they call invasions around the country.

So they go to different districts and they set up and they do this and they're very well organised.

I mean, the Plymouth Ski Pad spokesperson, Hayden Marb, he accompanied you to the intersection to promote an alternative site Is there something that you can do, Max, or the council can do to provide somewhat of a site that these racers will be into?

What was the secret to your campaign? Did you have a few on your side?

Oh, I did, obviously, but you don't know until you get to the end, right? But I think the key was early on, as I started, I trademarked the name and a logo called the Mayor's Office.

And I set up the mayor's office in town.

I rented a building, moved in there, added the drop-in centre for people, and I had more people come through that office during the campaign than went to campaign meetings and went on.

So people came in, they voiced their concerns, they asked any questions in a one-on space.

Sometimes there was a group of 10 or 12 people in the room.

And that was a highly effective use of my time and theirs.

Well, you can just choose one or two.