英国政府呼吁减少路标以美化市容

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爱思英语编者按：据路透社报道，日前英国政府呼吁拆除过多的路标、栏杆和广告牌，称这些街道设施破坏了英国城镇的景观。

英国社区事务大臣埃里克•皮科尔斯和交通事务大臣菲利普•哈蒙德致信英格兰地方市政官员，要求展开整治市容工作，清除街道上的一些煞风景的标识和其它“多余的路面设施”。甚至交通信号灯也在被拆范围之列。

The British government has declared war on the profusion of unnecessary road traffic signs, railings and advertising boards, saying they blight towns" English character.

Communities Secretary Eric Pickles and Transport Secretary Philip Hammond has written to local council leaders in England, calling on them to cut the number of unsightly signs and other "street clutter."

Even traffic lights are in the firing line.更多信息请访问：http://www.24en.com/

Ministers want the public to inform local authorities of particularly bad examples of excess signage, to clean up the national landscape.

"Our streets are losing their English character," Pickles said. "We are being overrun by scruffy signs, bossy bollards, patchwork paving and railed-off roads -- wasting taxpayers" money that could be better spent on fixing potholes."

The government says that in some cases traffic signs are installed by councils in the mistaken belief they are legally required, when they are not.

Hammond said the abundance of so-called street furniture often makes towns resemble "scrapyards," confusing motorists and obstructing pedestrians.

For signs to be most effective, ministers say, they should be kept to a minimum.

When busy Kensington High Street in central London was stripped of excess road furniture, for example, it helped reduce accidents by 47 percent.

The Department for Transport is reviewing traffic signs policy and new advice on how to reduce clutter will be published later this year.

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