Winchelsea Traffic Signs Project
What we achieved
Eventually, both the Highways Agency and County
Council agreed to review their signage in and around Winchelsea.
The County Council review was completed and implemented in
January 2005. The Highways Agency began their review in 2002
and completed work in September 2006.
By January 2007, we had succeeded in having
removed 99 signs displayed on 88 panels supported by 88 posts
at 54 sites. Our figures exclude a number of signs that were
erected and removed between our surveys, such as the motorway-style
sign that was supposed to direct traffic coming out of a side
road that led off a C road.
Unfortunately, over the same period, there
was an offsetting addition of 67 new signs displayed on 60
new panels supported by 30 posts at 21 sites. So, in net terms,
we succeeded in removing 32 signs displayed on 28 panels supported
by 51 posts at 33 sites. While this is not bad --- a net cut
of about 24% in sites, 28% in posts, and about 14% in both
panels and signs --- it is a case of “two steps forward, one
step back”. The main culprits were a quango called Sustrans,
which has erected 15 signs within a
single ˝-mile stretch of road, and Rother District Council.
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