Clear the clutter?  

The good announcements just keep pouring out from Eric Pickles and the local government department. Yesterday he said Councils should look again at the rash of signs that have appeared all over our streets warning, advising and requiring motorists to perform in certain ways. As a convinced localist, or course, all Eric can do is to suggest they think again. Let’s hope they do. Many Councils have fallen prey to the yellow line, red tarmac, bollard, aggressive kerb and sign salesmen. Our roads are in a constant state of flux, with endless niggling works to shift kerbs, erect bollards, insert refuges, add traffic lights, narrow lanes, construct artifical chicanes, remove lanes from operation, direct cycles to the front of traffic light queues, put traffic lights into all red sequences for traffic and re route traffic, turning two way into one way and one way into no...