Less confusion, scrap the signs
Hold on to your hats: it’s all go today at the
Traffic Signs 2007: Getting it Right!
conference being held at Loughborough University. If you can contain your excitement for long enough, we have this breaking news from the event.
According to Paul Milner, a representative from the Campaign to Protect Rural England, up to 70% of the signs on our rural roads are unnecessary. The findings were presented after the CPRE undertook a “clutter audit” of the A32 in rural Hampshire.
Delegates at the conference will also be shown how to use better solutions to reduce the number of signs that councils need to use. For example, the use of ‘shared space’ at Shipbourne, within the Kent Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, apparently has the potential to save up to 125 additional signs in addition to a whole range of standardised road markings.
On a serious note, we like the idea of reducing the risk for those who prefer just two wheels on their wagons and reckon anything that keeps the view simple and distraction-free is all the better when you’re on a B-road blast.
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