South Douglas Road and the war on visual clutter

Nerd post incoming, however this is an expansion of a post I made to Reddit that I'd thought I'd share on here to start a conversation about the war on visual clutter. Another perfect example is the Dunkettle Roundabout (not the Interchange). There are six traffic lights all showing the same thing when approaching the roundabout from the city centre. In this (https://maps.app.goo.gl/gDzCgzp6DF9wAw5V9) view alone there are over 20 traffic lights visible, street lights, poles with cameras, poles with nothing on them, directional signage, warning signage and chevrons. Someone must be seriously profitting big time off of the sale of signs and poles as it's simply excessive

Closer to the city centre is the mess that is the South Douglas Road/N40 junction. As shown in the below photos, the junction has nearly 15 directional signs (a lot saying the same thing but slightly differently), over 30 poles and a handful of traffic lights. We can do better than this. Not to mention the main sign coming off the N40 used to be two sided, with one of the sides facing nothing. And it's also just incorrect (it states there are 2km from the N40 exit to "Douglas", plus the N40 should be in brackets as the road is the R851)