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Speaker 1: Do you know what's really starting to rub me the

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Speaker 1: wrong way? And we'll come to the chateau in a second.

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Speaker 1: It's not that it's governments telling us to do more things.

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Speaker 1: This morning, we've got the government coming out with yet

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Speaker 1: another hotline, a tip line. It sounds fancy, sounds it

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Speaker 1: almost sounds efficient, doesn't it. It's a hotline to report

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Speaker 1: road cones, a road cone tip line. Sorry, but if

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Speaker 1: the problem is that there are too many road cones

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Speaker 1: on the road and there are necessary for the work

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Speaker 1: that's being carried out, which half of them appear to be,

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Speaker 1: then why do you need us to tell you that

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Speaker 1: this is the annoying part. Surely, if we just had better,

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Speaker 1: clearer rules and less bs, we wouldn't need a road

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Speaker 1: cone tip line, a pothole tip line, a one oh

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Speaker 1: five tip line, a beneficiary tip line. But when someone's

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Speaker 1: breaking the beneficiary rules, either you know what you're doing,

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Speaker 1: you've got smart people working for you, you've got smart systems,

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Speaker 1: or you don't. And every time I hear of another

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Speaker 1: tip plane, I realize they have no idea. Tip lines

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Speaker 1: are the equivalent of a safety calming measure in the traffic.

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Speaker 1: Those weird speed bumps or narrowing roads designed to make

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Speaker 1: people feel better when they're driving around. All they really

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Speaker 1: do is piss people off and reveal how rubbish the

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Speaker 1: road design was to begin with. Plus, just think about this. Really,

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Speaker 1: there's a bunch of road cones and a dumb place

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Speaker 1: on a busy road. We've all seen it, work safe

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Speaker 1: NZTA Council. They all drive past this busy spot every day.

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Speaker 1: Then you've got Barbera and a little Honda Civic. She

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Speaker 1: drives past it. She calls it and I'll call the

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Speaker 1: tip line. Barrie, he's in his truck and trailer. He

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Speaker 1: calls it, and I'll call the tip line. You're a

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Speaker 1: good citizen, Barry. And then Sally of course, pigs that

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Speaker 1: kids up from Score at three pm every day. She

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Speaker 1: calls them the tip line. They all ring the tip line.

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Speaker 1: They all report the same thing. It will then be

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Speaker 1: somebody's job to sort through the tips. Of course, you.

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Speaker 2: Know, barriees, we've got Barbera's, We've got Sally's what streets

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Speaker 2: dad or she called from the sandgor somebody else has

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Speaker 2: to triarge the tip line and the tips.

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Speaker 1: Remember, so there's two jobs. There are two people employed

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Speaker 1: in this already you see where I'm going with this.

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Speaker 1: In three weeks, Barry, Sally and Barb might get a

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Speaker 1: letter in the mail because the post only runs two

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Speaker 1: days a week. Now, remember the letter says we're looking

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Speaker 1: into this issue for you. Meanwhile, one hundred government or

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Speaker 1: council people have walked or driven past the road cone

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Speaker 1: Armageddon and nothing has changed. This is the problem with

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Speaker 1: tip lines, This is the problem with governments. This is

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Speaker 1: the problem with people who work for them, and we

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Speaker 1: shouldn't be one of them. For more from Early edition

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Speaker 1: with Ryan Bridge. Listen live to News Talks it be

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