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  • Government?s Road-Code Hotline To Close

    From Lawrence D?Oliveiro@3:633/10 to All on Wednesday, December 17, 2025 00:37:09
    $150,000 spent to set up the hotline to report supposedly gratuitous
    use of road cones; it ended up fielding a total of 800 calls over the
    six months in was in operation, which resulted in the removal of just
    200 cones <https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360915577/governments-road-cone-hotline-close>.

    So that was over $180 spent per call, or a cost of $750 for removing
    each ?unnecessary? cone.

    It would have been cheaper to leave those cones in place.

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  • From Your Name@3:633/10 to All on Wednesday, December 17, 2025 16:23:27
    On 2025-12-17 00:37:09 +0000, Lawrence D?Oliveiro said:

    $150,000 spent to set up the hotline to report supposedly gratuitous
    use of road cones; it ended up fielding a total of 800 calls over the
    six months in was in operation, which resulted in the removal of just
    200 cones <https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360915577/governments-road-cone-hotline-close>.


    So that was over $180 spent per call, or a cost of $750 for removing
    each ?unnecessary? cone.

    It would have been cheaper to leave those cones in place.

    It was always going to be just another example of government stupidity
    and money-wasting idiocy. :-\


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  • From Lawrence D?Oliveiro@3:633/10 to All on Wednesday, December 17, 2025 06:22:52
    On Wed, 17 Dec 2025 16:23:27 +1300, Your Name wrote:

    On 2025-12-17 00:37:09 +0000, Lawrence D?Oliveiro said:

    It would have been cheaper to leave those cones in place.

    It was always going to be just another example of government stupidity
    and money-wasting idiocy. :-\

    It was yet another one of ACT?s populist exercises, supposedly to save taxpayer money, don?t you know ...

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