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Best of 2025: Ryan Bridge - We shouldn't have to work for the government
Do you know what's really starts to rub me the wrong way?
It's governments telling us to do more things.
This morning, we've got the government coming out with yet another hotline.
Sounds fancy. Sounds efficient.
It's a hotline to report road cones. A road cone tipline.
Sorry, but if the problem is that there are too many road cones on the road, and they're unnecessary for the work being carried out —which half of them appear to be— then why do you need us to tell you that?
Surely if we just had better, clearer rules and less bullshit, we wouldn't need a road cone tipline. A pothole tipline…
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