Vlaardingen Has Too Many Traffic Signs and Is Removing 1,500 of Them

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The municipality of Vlaardingen is removing 1,500 "redundant" traffic signs. Last year, Vlaardingen still had 14,000 traffic signs and concluded after an inventory that some could actually be removed. "At a certain point, you realize: there are just too many. So they did some research," Wijnand de Gelder told local broadcaster Omroep Twee. He's a traffic expert with the municipality. "1,500 signs turned out to be redundant. That sounds like a sm…