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Speaker 1: Chris Bishop says that we're sick of this is us

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Speaker 1: the public apparently sick of over the top road cone

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Speaker 1: use and expensive traffic management plans. Well, yes, he'd be right.

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Speaker 1: They are so annoying and often, at least to my

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Speaker 1: untrained eye, they're completely pointless. They take a one hundred

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Speaker 1: dollar job and they make it one thousand dollar job.

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Speaker 1: And for what So why is this still happening. We've

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Speaker 1: had a hotline, we've had an election campaign, we've had

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Speaker 1: promises up the wazoo. Why are there still cones everywhere

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Speaker 1: all over the road when the government has said that

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Speaker 1: they've told ZTA to get rid of and this is

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Speaker 1: apparently like the Devil's Playbook, NZTA's Code of Practice for

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Speaker 1: Traffic Management Risk Assessment, that apparently is the document that

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Speaker 1: has been doing our heads in and the government's told

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Speaker 1: ins NTA to basically get rid of that thing, make

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Speaker 1: it obsolete. While the problem apparently is that many councils

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Speaker 1: are still using the Devil's Workbook, the Devil's playbook, this

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Speaker 1: code of practic as their north star. So as a

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Speaker 1: response the government's now threatening local council funding, you have

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Speaker 1: to literally threaten their funding to get them to change

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Speaker 1: their ways. And what this shows us is just how

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Speaker 1: far and deep the overtly cautious safety at any cost

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Speaker 1: mentality has gone. Also, it shows you how scared they

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Speaker 1: are of work safe, coming in and going after somebody

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Speaker 1: should you know an injury happen. You have to make

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Speaker 1: sure people are safe, of course, especially when working with dangers,

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Speaker 1: but you can't keep everybody safe from all harms in

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Speaker 1: all places, at all times and for any reason. Fencing

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Speaker 1: every waterway is impractical, so as covering every street in

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Speaker 1: road cones. We need to find a sensible middle ground

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Speaker 1: and make sure the officials told to carry out the

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Speaker 1: changes actually do so. For more from early edition with

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