So Martin Parkes, TCC Transportation Manager, believes there is a surplus of road signs and yet does not really specify where or what they are, nor what harm they cause. He proposes removing these so-called extra signs at great cost, probably to be reinstated at some later date at even greater cost, all because it seems they need to be maintained from time to time. If these signs are such a problem, why were they ever installed, who decided on this overkill in the first place? It has to be a balance between driver confusion with too many signs vs lack of information with to few signs.
Harebrained schemes like this show some council staff have nothing better to do with their time which is a matter that should have been addressed in the recent staff audit, with a view to saving wages and associated costs relating to inane projects like this. TCC currently employing 500-plus people has in effect become a self perpetuating empire creating so much internal work that it no longer needs any meaningful contact with it's residents and ratepayers.
It is despairing to observe what looks like trying to ‘justify my existence' mentality and never mind the waste and cost to TCC ratepayers.

S.Paterson, Arataki.