Surely you do not object to the rights of the minority, part and parcel of which is the taxpayer/resident right to free expression, correct?
Just think of the seeming disregard for the opinions of many taxpayers and residents which may be in play here Lanc. With or without their consent, taxpayers paid for the project with their public tax dollars; and yea, grant money ultimately comes from the taxpayers.
These people are only freely expressing their concern(s), much of which stems around the potential confusion and safety issues which may attend the project.
What is most concerning is that private residents are compelled to pay for signs because their voices seem to have been otherwise stifled and shunned by an arrogantly majority.
And this touted so-called broad public support was based on what, a survey of residents which needed to be cut from a village newsletter or in lieu thereof, a technolgically troubled online poll?
More questionable, a virtual public hearing at the height of Covid; a time when residential priorities were focused on their own economic survival?
IMHO, it may have been much more wiser and fairer to have deferred such an impactful decision until the restoration of normal residential life.