We have Wayne Brown’s texts to the boss of AT and they’re exactly what you’d expect
The Spinoff Daily, Wednesday March 27
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“Wayne Brown was in town for a council meeting last September when he saw something that left him angry and confused. Road cones were strewn on Durham St, forcing pedestrians into the carriageway for no apparent reason. Anyone else might have emitted a mutter of irritation and moved on. Not Brown. He had the perfect person to vent to. ‘WTF is this? Dugan St west, Wayne,’ he texted the chief executive of Auckland Transport Dean Kimpton, along with a photo.
Road cones have long been Brown’s nemesis. And he has been trying to change Auckland’s conescape from the inside, one cone at a time. Texts provided under the Local Government Official Information Act show Brown repeatedly haranguing the city’s top transport official, sending Kimpton screeds of cone complaints and miscellaneous traffic management gripes in the 14 months since his appointment as AT’s chief executive.”
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