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This is the dumbest shit.
If the problem is that a lack of guidance means contractors are going overboard on the road cones, then put some guidance in place. Why are they withholding funding and setting up a tip line to catch contractors using too many road cones, that's the kind of bureaucracy they claim to be against.
What exactly does "too many" mean in this context? Is there some rule about how many metres they should be spaced out?
Chris Bishop claims this in the article, yes.
He said the code of practice for traffic management risk assessment had been overly prescriptive, and the New Zealand Transport Agency has now stopped using it for work on state highways.
"They have instead moved to a far more pragmatic guide which allows contractors to use their experience and common sense to keep everyone safe on a worksite, rather than specifying road cone use down to the centimetre."
Bishop said many councils, which own and maintain local roads, were still using the code of practice.
"Which is why we still see ridiculous temporary traffic management measures on local streets, such as quiet cul-de-sacs covered in road cones because of minor work on a footpath.
So it seems there is an old guide that did prescribe the distance, but it's no longer used by NZTA.
(how true this is may be in the eye of the observer)
given the kind of pain and suffering they have inflicted on the public with their austerity regime it seems like they could talk about other things than road cones.
Performative politics it the goal here.
They are trying to distract you from the state of the economy.
And the fascists moves they keep making to undermine democracy and move the country to a Trump style rule.
"Cones cost to much" so we're going to punish local government if they use to many cones.
Thats such a national solution to rhe problem. Instead of addressing the cause of the high usage they just attack the person with the problem.
What is their beef exactly? That there should be no road repair or that the road repairs should be done without cones?
They think that the distance required by NZTA between cones is to small leading to any construction project overspending on cones.
I can't even imagine the kind of a mindset that would get upset because cones are too close to each other.
