AS THE name suggests an entry statement is designed to make a statement.

According to the former deputy mayor Rogin Taylor the Proserpine entry statements may do what they were designed to do ... if drivers could see them.

"The Proserpine entry sign has to be the worst sign to read in Australia,” he said.

"It doesn't stand out, it blends into the background.

"(The letters are) stainless steal and highly reflective, it's a mirror.

"Can you imagine if all the highway signs had a mirror image like that?

"You would be going to Sydney and end up in Darwin.”

At a cost of $100,000 the entry statements were commissioned by the Proserpine Chamber of Commerce and installed at the southern and northern approaches to Proserpine in March last year.

Mr Taylor spoke out last week against the signs which, although now in place for almost a year, some have still not seen, he said.

"I said to Phill Taylor down at Lethebrook 'How do you like the sign?' he said 'What sign?', I said the 'highway entry statement'. He said 'I haven't noticed it'. I said 'It has been there for a while - you pass it everyday' and he said 'Where is it?',” Mr Taylor said.

"What an absolute waste of $100,000 and whoever designed and produced the lettering should be made to fix it with something that can actually be seen by cars going past at 80 or 100 kilometres an hour.”

Division 2 councillor John Collins responded to Mr Taylor's observation about the signs.

"The Entrance Statement, although financed by the council, was delivered by the Proserpine Chamber of Commerce. I know that the chamber is aware of the issues surrounding the lighting. I believe that they have been following up to hopefully rectify this problem,” he said.