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Ryan Bridge: The row over road cones is getting piping hot
In the Herald this morning, the boss of traffic management firm Traffix laid into the Transport Minister, saying he and Wayne Brown don't understand how the industry works.
He says they don't charge per road cone for work, but rather per worker and truck.
He says the public's abusing his staff on site because of misinformation being spread.
The problem here is an independent report, which we spoke about yesterday, from EY.
It was pretty damning, finding said rules incentivise contractors to cause maximum disruption to maximise profits. NZTA looked at 800 maintenance work sites on highway…
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