$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 rCLunnecessaryrCY cone.
It would have been cheaper to leave those cones in place.
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. :-\
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