New signs are a waste

Have you seen those shiny new signs Walsall Council has put up to tell folk they are entering/leaving places in the borough?

They are about ten feet tall and two feet wide, brown in colour with pictures and writing on them.

They have installed two of these devices on the Spine Road in Moxley, presumably to inform passing motorists that they are entering (or leaving) Moxley.

I say presumably because at 40mph on a duel carriageway, some 30 yards from a pelican crossing, I cannot actually read the writing or fathom the photos, as I am concentrating on not jumping a red light or driving up the central reservation (or worse, into the canal).

Perhaps the good people who plan these things expect drivers to either divert their attention from their primary task (driving) to read these signs, or possibly stop their vehicles to facilitate assimilating this valuable information? (I always thought a gateway was a hole left in the hedge so that the cows could get out of the field, usually with a gate to keep the cows in.)

If Walsall Council has the money to waste on such irrelevances, may I suggest they curtail their spending and cut the extortionate levels of council tax. Then, when they have done that, perhaps they can all go out and find proper jobs and leave us poor bloody infantry alone. Especially when seeking our vote.

Why did they not install a footbridge over the road instead of a pelican crossing? Answer: you can't control traffic with a footbridge.

John Benton, Horace Partridge Road, Moxley.