{"id":2682,"date":"2014-04-23T18:13:52","date_gmt":"2014-04-23T17:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrischambers-som.com\/blog\/?p=2682"},"modified":"2014-04-23T18:21:00","modified_gmt":"2014-04-23T17:21:00","slug":"driving-lessons-sunderland-transport-secretary-axe-pointless-road-signs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrischambers-som.com\/blog\/driving-lessons-sunderland-transport-secretary-axe-pointless-road-signs\/","title":{"rendered":"Driving Lessons Sunderland: Transport Secretary To Axe Pointless Road Signs."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The past two decades has seen a huge rise in the number of totally unnecessary road signs blotting the landscape, but an end to the\u00a0\u2018pointless\u2019 signs could be nearing.<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It seems that there is currently around one sign for every seven cars on the roads!<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Furthermore, the Department for Transport (DfT) admitted at the time that Britain has around 9,000 signs which are considered either redundant or misleading and need to be revised.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Worryingly, a\u00a0survey revealed that most people have no idea what many of the road signs actually mean&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>To read the original article, simply follow the link below:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Daily Mail News Article Link.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2609129\/Transport-Secretary-axe-pointless-traffic-signs-clutter-roads-revealed-theyve-doubled-number-20-years-4-5million.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2609129\/Transport-Secretary-axe-pointless-traffic-signs-clutter-roads-revealed-theyve-doubled-number-20-years-4-5million.html<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What are your thoughts on this story? Do you have an opinion on the subject?<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #444444;\"><span style=\"color: #404040;\">If so, I would be interested to hear them. Please feel free to leave me your thoughts in the comments box.<\/span><br style=\"color: #404040;\" \/><br style=\"color: #404040;\" \/><span style=\"color: #404040;\">As always, stay safe out there good people!<\/span><br style=\"color: #404040;\" \/><span style=\"color: #404040;\">Chris<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #444444;\"><strong><a title=\"Official Website.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.chrischambers-som.com\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.chrischambers-som.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #444444;\"><a title=\"Facebook Post Link.\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/drivingschoolssunderland\/posts\/750842071623160?stream_ref=10\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/drivingschoolssunderland\/posts\/750842071623160?stream_ref=10<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #444444;\"><strong><a title=\"Google + Post Link.\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/114398979294611026237\/posts\/MGMPPieAufX\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/plus.google.com\/114398979294611026237\/posts\/MGMPPieAufX<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #444444;\"><a title=\"Twitter Post Link.\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CChambersSoM\/status\/459018565098545152\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>https:\/\/twitter.com\/CChambersSoM\/status\/459018565098545152<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #404040;\">Driving Lessons Sunderland \u2022 Driving Schools Sunderland \u2022 Driving Instructors Sunderland<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The past two decades has seen a huge rise in the number of totally unnecessary road signs blotting the landscape, but an end to the\u00a0\u2018pointless\u2019 signs could be nearing. It seems that there is currently around one sign for every seven cars on the roads! Furthermore, the Department for Transport (DfT) admitted at the time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[10,12,56,57,63,39,13,14,54,55,15,69,16,17,18,19,40,64,67,62,20,42,43,21,22,66,41,61,38,23,68,60],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrischambers-som.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2682"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrischambers-som.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrischambers-som.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrischambers-som.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrischambers-som.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2682"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrischambers-som.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2687,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrischambers-som.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2682\/revisions\/2687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrischambers-som.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrischambers-som.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrischambers-som.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}