Visual Pollution
Posted by Simon Emmett on July 3, 2009, 04:45
With the heatwave in London a lot is being said about airborne pollution, and for the need to tackle it. However, one thing that I feel that we need to tackle is visual pollution. “What are you talking about?” I can already hear you ask.
Well, we seem so obsessed with trying to tackle air pollution, that we seem happy for visual pollution to increase with a plethora of testing beacons and devices that are currently being installed at our roadsides, and large scale wind turbines on our landscape. But, we seem to be doing nothing about the visual pollution of our streets of the numerous wheelie bins for each household for recycling, and road signs upon road signs appearing, with none ever seemingly taken down.
I perfect example of this road sign madness, I found on Shooters Hill a little while ago.
In this example of visual pollution you can quite clearly see a warning sing in the foreground for “Humps for 100 yards” if you turn left. However on the other side of the street, there is a sign saying that states that it is a one-way street, with a right turn only! So, why has this sign, like so many other redundant or pointless street signs been removed from blotting our landscapes.
I feel an “end visual pollution” campaign coming on.
