Sayle agreed

Alexei Sayle in this month’s Prospect Magazine: “If I ruled the world … I would remove 80% of the traffic lights … at a junction in France or Spain, there will be four lights, one at each corner … at the end of my street, a modest enough crossing, there are 12 completely different sets of traffic lights! Why? The only logical explanation is that the British traffic light lobby wields more influence than the National Rifle Association does in the US … Anyway, nearly all the traffic lights will go, along with the thousands of ugly and pointless metal road signs that litter our built environment.”