On Street Names Signage Elsewhere in the "Anglosphere" and How Apostrophes Relate to That

dduane happened to spot this today:

http://arbroath.blogspot.ca/2013/03/council-bans-apostrophes-from-new.html

I don't know that good punctuation is an exclusively British characteristic, but I also shudder to think of the consequences of banishing the apostrophe to the memory hole.

How about you?