No this is not an April Fool’s gag, the Government are launching a new reporting hotline and assigning two ministers to tackle every Kiwi’s hatred of excessive road cone use.
“You can drive around this country at different times of the day and you’ve got whole roads shut down, no one is doing any work and the cones are frankly just clogging up the joint,” Prime Minister Christopher Luxon said.
Luxon was joined by Workplace Relations and Safety Minister Brooke van Velden, who said excessive road cones were brought up nearly everywhere on her road trip around the country.
The “focus on cones” is a part of broader reforms to help improve the country’s health and safety regulations.
“We’ve got signs that are actually there to warn you about hot water taps, we’ve got signs to say please hold on to the handrail … that is where we have jumped the shark and it’s gone mad.” Luxon told reporters.
The Government will now create a hotline for the public to “report on excessive road cone use they may find out in the wild.
“New Zealanders really hate road cones.”
The two Ministers who will oversee this reform are Van Velden herself who will will handle the WorkSafe side of things and Chris Bishop, as Transport Minister, will oversee the NZ Transport Agency’s role.
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