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?

Karl du Fresne: My war with the NZTA: Part One

So let me see if I’ve got this straight: the government’s response to public fury and exasperation at the wasteful, disruptive and mostly useless traffic management racket is to set up a hotline where people can report excessive road cone use? God save us. 

I predict this pathetically feeble non-solution, announced this week, will achieve one-fifth of SFA because hardly anyone will bother ringing an 0800 number to dob the traffic management racketeers in. 

Peter Dunne: Traffic management

There was a hole in a quiet road near me recently. It was about three metres long. A repair crew came to fix it.

That crew consisted of six people - a digger operator, someone directing the digger's movements, two stop-go sign holders and their two supervisors. And at least 150 ubiquitous orange cones. The road was down to a single lane for most of its length.