A Chara, - After having returned recently from abroad for a temporary stay in Ireland, I found myself driving down the Howth road confused, bewildered and quite frankly worried for the safety of both myself and fellow road users.
With existing carnage on the roads tied to an increase in the coded messaging along the roadside, does it really benefit motorists and pedestrians to have election posters hanging on, obscuring and interfering with traffic signs? This severely impairs motorists' capacity for information processing and their ability to drive safely.
Surely this is illegal on traffic signs. This seems to me to be one of the most fundamental issues of many that are wrong with this type of propaganda. Could anyone correlate increases in traffic accidents and road-related deaths to election campaigns by month and/or density of propaganda signage? - Yours, etc,
DÓNAL Ó DUIBHÍR, Bettyglen, Raheny.