Oxfordshire County Council is insisting that a road safety sign erected by campaigners Cyclox in Botley Road, Oxford, must be taken down as "we can't just allow people to put up signs on the highway" (Oxford Mail, April 7).
Yet the council and South Oxfordshire District Council are colluding, without planning permission, to place advertising signs on dozens of roundabouts in the south of the county.
Such advertisements are, by their very intention, designed to distract drivers.
Each sign may be small, but just like items of litter, the more that are dropped into our rural landscape, the uglier the effect and the greater the distraction to motorists.
David Robertson, the county council's cabinet member for transport, has no moral case for banning a road safety sign when he and the county are supporting large numbers of distracting advertisements at road junctions.
These signs will reduce road safety at busy junctions as well as harm the environment through needless roadside clutter.
MICHAEL TYCE ANDY BODDINGTON Campaign to Protect Rural England Oxfordshire
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