BEE INVESTIGATION: Where Do All the Orange Cones on North 7th Go in Winter?
For eight months of the year, North 7th Avenue is a pulsating artery of orange traffic cones, lane closures, and the quiet, simmering rage of 14,000 daily commuters. Then, sometime around November, the cones vanish — and nobody knows where they go.
The Bozeman Daily Bee spent three weeks investigating.
“We don’t track individual cones,” said Bozeman Public Works spokesperson Carl Redmond when reached for comment. When pressed on whether the city tracks cones collectively, Redmond paused for eleven seconds before saying, “I’m going to transfer you.”