‘GERMAN politician Mathias Uhlig is campaigning for traffic lights to make bird sounds instead of the ticking noise used to alert blind people to when it is safe to cross a road.
Mr Uhlig, a member of the conservative CDU from Dusseldorf, thinks the bird sounds would be ‘idyllic’ compared to ‘that nerve-racking tack, tack, tack’.
But fellow politicians think it would be too expensive to change the signal - and potentially dangerous.
‘If a real bird sings nearby, a blind person risks walking straight into a car,’ Liberal politician Manfred Neuenhaus said.
And fellow Liberal Alexander Zeitz claimed high-pitched sounds were harder to pick up.
‘We’d be better off using the deep sound of a roaring stag,’ he said.’
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