Standardisation holds key to saving money, technicians told

24 May 2006

There was a call for greater standardisation in order to secure the efficiency savings demanded by the Government at a Technical Advisors Group seminar this week.
Burney Johnson, head of transport strategy and design at Durham County Council told delegates that ‘it is absolutely bonkers we are all using different colours for cycle lanes. It needs to be standardised’.
He also said his authority had started to co-ordinate with other agencies, and had now entered into a winter-surfacing agreement with the Highways Agency and was not building any more storage depots. ‘We had a bit of a stranglehold on the HA, because we owned the land its depot was on.’
The seminar, Local government efficiency: is it possible?, also heard from TAG’s new president, Manouchehr Mandi-Ghomi, who as Leeds’ divisional director of Mouchel Parkman is the first private sector employee in the position.
Mandi-Ghomi said: ‘The engineering profession is so good at delivering efficiency we are often taken for granted. We’re saving lives everyday and more chief executives should be gently reminded of this fact.’

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