According to the official justification, "signs appearing in multiple languages would only confuse road users."
As Szabad Magyar Szó reported, some road signs in Vojvodina have been replaced, and now not only are the Hungarian local names not displayed, but the Serbian name in Latin letters has also been omitted. So, for example, around Zenta, Ada and Kanizsa, there are more and more monolingual place name signs renewed with Cyrillic script.
"Traffic safety risk"
the Telex article , the VMDK submitted a petition to the official bodies in July 2021 regarding a previous, similar violation of the law, but according to the director of the Serbian Government's Secretariat of the Republic of Legislation, "multilingualism, i.e. signs appearing in several languages, would only confuse road users, which would also lead to possible accidents could lead, that is
would constitute a »traffic safety risk«.
Áron Csonka, the president of the VMDK, told the newspaper that the new signs were placed along the secondary regional roads. According to him, this is also interesting because, in addition to minorities living in Vojvodina, they can also cause a lot of trouble for tourists who do not know Cyrillic writing.
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