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Ryan Bridge: Cone Overkill Must Stop
Chris Bishop says we're sick of over-the-top cone use and expensive traffic management plans.
And he'd be right. They are so annoying and often, to the untrained eye at least, completely pointless.
They take a $100 job and make it a $1000 job.
So why is this till happening?
Why are there still cones everywhere, when the government says NZTA's code of practice for traffic management rick assessment - is no longer being used? Obsolete?
Well, the problem is many councils are apparently still using this code of practice as their north star.
As a response, the government's now threatening local…
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