Cone hotline goes cold
3rd August 1995, Page 5
3rd August 1995
Page 5
Page 5, 3rd August 1995
— Cone hotline goes cold
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• The Government's ridiculed cones hotline is to be scrapped after removing just five batches of unnecessary cones since the scheme was announced in 1992.
The 24-hour freephone line cost taxpayers £5,000 a year and had a peak demand of fewer than two calls an hour.
The full cost of the service is not known, as Highways Agency staff monitoring the line perform other duties and separate accounts are not kept.
Ministers want to replace the hotline with a roadworks warning service. A spokesperson for the HA says: "The hotline has been useful as a dialogue between the motorist and the agency."