Imatra's youth council published its first podcast

The text equivalent of the podcast

Lassi: Welcome to the Nuva podcast. I am Lassi Huuskonen, the chairman of Imatra's youth council. And I'm Santtu Pettinen, representative of the youth council. 
Lassi: Today's podcast discusses the upcoming two-year term of office of the Imatra youth council, moposura and the Imatra city council has granted 70 euros of additional money for Imatra's youth activities. Now, for the first time, there is a two-year term of office. The season started with elections in all school centers and anyone could participate in the elections and the representatives were chosen based on the number of votes.
Lassi: Santu, what kind of elections did you have there in Sampo and how did the elections go? 
Santtu: No elections were held at the vocational school, or elections were being held, but the fourth candidate opted out. Each school center has three representatives on the youth council, so Sampola only had 3 representatives left and they all made it to the youth council.
Lassi: From the Mansikkala school center, we had quite a lot of people who wanted to be candidates for the youth council, and there were quite a lot of voters, and then 3 candidates were chosen from the school center. The race was, so to speak, tight, we had quite a few points there, and then the alternate candidates were decided after that, since we had so many of those candidates.
Lassi: The youth council has meetings once a month and the meetings are now held this term, apparently at the Mansikkala school center in the high school premises, and the meetings follow the agenda and the meetings are led by the chairman.
Santtu: In the meeting, we usually give our statements, even for planning applications or some youth projects or similar projects, how we could implement them and then if necessary take the matter to the city council or some board where it may have to be dealt with.
Lassi: The youth council had a 2-year term of office 
Santtu: For a 2-year term, because you are not the group that decides on issues in the youth council, it is better to get to know each other a lot more and to group together more, so that everyone dares to bring out their own opinion and that no one is so-called unheard.
Lassi: In particular, that team spirit would be preserved in that group.
Santtu: The purpose would also be that you could inform people and inform people better that the youth council exists and that it meets actively at regular intervals and decides on issues and that you could bring issues to them. 
Lassi: Nuva meetings will start active social media posting in the near future.
Santtu: And the Imatra youth council website can be found at imatra.fi/nuva
Lassi: The plans at nuva are for the youth council to run a cross-country event and a moped straight. The Lani event would definitely be held in the new Mansikkala school center and you could bring your own computers there and then you would play along and there would be some boutiques like this and certainly some bigger game like this. For example, Trail Blazers if you could make it easier for us and even sponsor the event and from the city of Imatra if we could get gaming machines there, etc.
Santtu: The new school center could have the most suitable facilities at the moment to organize a lani event like this, and there could be a competition of some kind and shape at the lani event there. Maybe groups of friends could make their own teams or compete in different games and it would take a weekend. For example, it starts on Thursday and ends on Sunday. 
Lassi: Three to four days. If, for some reason, a sleeping area could be isolated from the hall, where would, for example, sleeping mattresses, etc.
Santtu: Or possibly a classroom or somewhere where it wouldn't be right in the middle of the noise, but you could sleep and there would be changing rooms and showers so you could wash up and take care of your hygiene if you didn't want to go home 
Lassi This kind of parliamentary visit is also planned and it will then be looked at according to the corona situation and the world situation.
Lassi: Then the city council has granted €70 in money for youth activities. It would be sent in 000 to be used, for example, to prevent marginalization and support the voluntary activities of young people
Santtu: Young people are having a strong little Christmas coming up, heh heh!
Santtu: So we're going with the youth organization to plan what we could use this €70 for.
Lassi: actually this week. What do we take away from this event? 
Santtu: to get good ideas from young people, the youth council and whoever has been invited there. The youth organization could express its own opinion. You can comment on it and let us know what you think.
Lassi: If we get sponsors directly for the moped, it means that you probably don't necessarily need to spend so much money on it, or for example, I think you could put money into a lani event and ask gaming clubs as sponsors or something like that. And just to get the facilities from there and internet connections. I think you could put 70 tons of it in it.
Santtu: Yes, and then we could ask all of you who could provide such internet connections for such a business event and funding for this event anyway. I believe that I will get a lot of sponsors for the moped straight, because we don't have that much money from the 70-ton budget for the moped straight, but it could be used more for the lani event and some other youth project.
Lassi: The youth council of Imatra has started riding a moped straight, and today Marko Heija and Santtu Pettinen tell us about it. Please Santtu.
Santtu: Thank you, yes, today we have Marko Heija from IMX Imatra Motocross ry as a guest. Hey! Today we were supposed to discuss what to do with the moped line. What is it. Why is such a thing needed and are there supporters for it? 
Marko: There is already one such place in Finland in Kontiolahti and it works well there and we have applied for one in Imatra and things have not yet been made to work here, but we will try. Why such a thing here, there should be a place like that for young people where they can safely practice riding a moped with a permit so that they don't have to practice and ride in the traffic and cause dangerous situations.
Santtu: I have now found out a bit about this matter from the Kontiolahti side, and I received an email from there and I will tell you what they have done about this matter. There are probably big question marks about who will take responsibility at the moment.
Marko: Yes, at some point here we have made a request and an application for the Kurkvuori industrial area for acceleration direct, we have talked about it under the name of Kiihari. It would have been done there and with the supervision it could have been done and planned and we already had the secretary of the club promising to supervise it once a week or more. Then if I compare it to the responsibility question in Kontiolahti, the answer there was that the responsibility is that if there is a hole in the asphalt or something like that, the municipality is responsible for it, but they have the signs there. The rescue and police authorities have come to approve it and there is a sign that says driving at your own risk. And the closed area, but yes, the idea for us was to somehow prevent such a passage, which has not been done in Kontiolahti, with a gate or a concrete pig. 
Santtu: After all, Kontiolahti doesn't have any safety policy or there is nothing to prevent other traffic from going there on the moped straight. For Imatra, something like that could be a good thing, concrete pigs or something like that so you can't drive there. And then this question of responsibility was that the municipality is responsible for the maintenance of the moped straight and that the straight remains in good condition, that if there is a hole in the asphalt and a moped rider falls into it, the municipality would be responsible for it. Then, if the moped driver himself messes up, he himself would be responsible for this matter. Do we have any places other than this acceleration straight?
Marko: Then there is the Korvenkanna driving practice track that was in the news on November 24.11. that the operation will be stopped and the gates will be closed. That would be another good place. I just called there to say that there are environmental permits and everything. I realized that there are gates when they were once closed.
Santtu: Well, then there is the question again, what are the noise problems when there is a residential area relatively close anyway.
Marko: Well, yes, it's there, when you apply for a noise environmental permit, that's where the noise measurement is done, and I can't go and assess that from either place until those tests are done that... We have that Kurkvuoren Saarlammen there, next to the karting track there's that children's cross training area and it has measurements, tests done and everything has been passed. That Korvenkanta will probably pass them well when it is in the same condition. 
Santtu: Is it how many supporters from different companies and a little were asked for the moped direct project?
Marko: Well, now I've asked 4 companies and 4 agreed. I don't believe that he would easily get companies and then in fact the city of Imatra supported us with that 50 cubic inch fantic moped that we have acquired. And I would like to teach driving on asphalt and not on sand. Of course, this kind of cross work is taught on sand. We would have a moped for this lesson and then we have cones and flags, systems and necessary equipment for this driving lesson. 
Santtu: Some information has been obtained about this matter and the question remains, who will take responsibility for it and if it is decided to move it forward. Whether the company or the city or whatever will take responsibility.
Marko: I think that responsibility thing is special, that now here in Finland there are many motor racing tracks, the operation of which is much more violent, more dangerous, faster speed. We talk, we go over three hundred and the mopeds go 45 km/h. If you're tuned, if you're going in a closed area, maybe 70 km/h. On any of these motor tracks. How would you say that? Responsibility. Who is to say the responsibility that... There have been bad accidents on certain tracks there. Yes, there are insurances, but then again this is for moped work. So was the idea that at your own risk.
Santtu: Yes. It would really be great if there was a place like this for young people where they could practice driving safely and if they wanted to do it, in a closed area so there would be no traffic accidents.
Marko: Yes, yes. It is said that there has always been some moping and giggling in traffic, but now this is the place where we practice. They would be out of there in traffic for a certain period of time and then there is the advantage that when you get to practice, you will learn that the injury does not happen in traffic.
Lassi: If something goes wrong on that road, who will pay or replace it?
Marko: Well, how would you say it? I'm on the road. That Kiihari has been there for as long as I can remember from my own cross youth. A lot of people have been there. For example, Europe's fastest acceleration driver has been there to test the bike with an acceleration wheel. That it's not like that, in my opinion, nothing got into that asphalt, that it wears less than highways.
Santtu: Marko, have you noticed that the criticism towards these young moped riders has grown in recent years.
Marko: Yeah. Actually, I have noticed. That you have the best time being a 15-year-old moped rider. Then the older one is 18 and rode a moped. At that time, about 35 years ago, I was riding a moped in traffic, so there were a lot of moped riders and I was riding in traffic. And there was never anything like that or a problem or anyone interfering in any activity. What did the teacher sometimes say where the moped should be in the park. Now I've noticed that when I was riding with the older boy, maybe there was something like that little bit of criticism there. But when the younger one rides Niska and Kulmi, then you can read about everything on social media. That somehow it feels like it's a bit like a tooth cavity for young people in traffic. Was it because of that that a place like this would be good for boys, for work, for young people, where to train and ride and gather. 
Santtu: A place like this would be perfect for this, where you could practice this motor sport. Then these personal experiences, that people have come to shout and have tried to throw stones, and I myself have read on Facebook that moped drivers have done this and that. What about Lassi? Do you have any experience?
Lassi: Well, that thing has been thrown with a stone a couple of times and that thing has been prevented from driving so that it can't move, and then there is that. Not violently now. Well, violently to the point that stones have been thrown and maybe just tried to get on top of some big crowd when there have been. The biggest part is that even if you warm up the machine, people will shout you to get away from it. Do not disturb.
Marko: I heard about the heating of the machine that it was even said by the school that you shouldn't heat it in the school yard like that. Since I've been dealing with engines since 76, especially in cold weather or why not in warm weather, a motorcycle or a moped, you have to warm it up before you start driving. It's not good to leave cold. And there's also the fact that my fifteen-year-old son was once going to visit a store in Vuoksenniska. There, an older man was really angry and started yelling at the boy. The boy said that he had driven to the shop as normal and there had been a bigger saying in the shop yard. He wondered what he had done wrong, he had said it was you pretending. It happened in the spring of this year. So the boy said that he can't even dance. 
Santtu: Yes, and then with moped riders, I've noticed that some kind of prejudices are made, that one does something and everything is like that. 
Lassi: Yes, definitely, and when we generally think too much about the fact that everyone is doing something that someone has been seen doing 
Marko: Yes. That was such a good thing, the moped straight. It could be partially removed from there, at least from the market and the parking lot. And everyone would be satisfied.
Santtu: What if there are moped myths and there will always be them, and they always have myth-specific goings on, what to do there and where to go directly to where. Has Marko ever participated in any moped myth?
Marko: Yes, actually in a few. Even when the older boy didn't have a driver's license, they asked if I would go as a driver and we went to watch the action. Since 76, when I've been dealing with mopeds and motorcycles, I was interested in it and off we went. I was positively surprised by the kind of activity and how the young people behaved. No drunkenness, no fighting. I've been there three times in a couple of years. Boys and girls practice there and are skilled, and then where there are not so skilled, a few learn there, and that's why such a moped straight so that you could learn there. And about these thoughts. From what I have read in the papers, they are only increasing. They are all over Finland, not only in Imatra. 
Lassi: Aren't mopeds illegal anyway?
Marko: Well, that. It probably depends on how many participants there are. But to that question, I would throw the moped direct card again. That now that it was in its own place on the moped straight, it would be possible to get assembly permits there and event announcements would be made that I would organize this. It would be easy to take care of the organizers in such a specific place.
Lassi: Are there legal moped rallies organized in Finland? 
Santtu: As far as I know, there are apparently legal mopo myths in Jyväskylä and there are their own leaders for those myths. They lead those myths and apparently permissions have been asked for those routes and places where we are there. If such a track or a straight came, would there be any fees or would it be free for all young people?
Marko: Well, if it's in cooperation with, for example, the city's youth council and on city land, then of course it's free for young people. By comparison. All Finnish motor tracks; cating, motocross, roadracibng and others. They are all paid, but a place like this would be free for a young person.
Santtu: So how does Kontiolahti work in this matter.
Marko: What I understand now. It's a free place with. The municipality goes there once a week to check the places and they have delivered chairs, stones and cleared a bit of the forest there or roadsides and made a bit of asphalt. Our plan was a bit more difficult because in Kontiolahti the car can also get lost there, and we had the idea that the gates and Betoniporsas and then there would be a supervisor somehow and the overall package would be better than this Kontiolahti idea they have.
Santtu: Thank you Marko Heija for the visit. 
Marko: Thank you