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Bill Mackay

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Auckland's secret underground history 

And that's got a big car parking basement.

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Auckland's secret underground history 

And the problem down there, because it's right on the water's edge, is that it basically wants to pop out of the water.

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Auckland's secret underground history 

Imagine that you're pushing a bucket down into bathwater.

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Auckland's secret underground history 

It wants to pop up.

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Auckland's secret underground history 

So that basement is designed to flood in a major event.

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Auckland's secret underground history 

So if we had a tidal wave or a kind of a super storm surge on top of a spring tide and it flooded, it's designed to do that because it's better to write off all the cars in the basement than it is to have your whole building popping out of the ground and being destroyed.

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Auckland's secret underground history 

Yeah, but it's all legit.

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Auckland's secret underground history 

It complies with the building code that's got council approval, but yeah.

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Auckland's secret underground history 

Um, canal boring machines have really changed the way that we do things.

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Auckland's secret underground history 

So, um, and also because going, taking a lot of things over land, you need to compulsorily acquire land.

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Auckland's secret underground history 

Um, you're dealing with vehicles, you're dealing with pedestrians.

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Auckland's secret underground history 

So it's actually much easier to just...

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Auckland's secret underground history 

Buy the big tool, get it started at one end and off you go underground with, you know, not too much to worry about in terms of other hazards.

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