Zoney wrote:
Then there's the Irish system. Start introducing
metric-only distance
signage, without removing the old Imperial (or old-English/old-Irish)
mileage signs, and continue to use mph speed limit signs for a decade
or two.
Then suddenly with a few months warning announce speed limit change
from mph to kph, and change every sign in the country overnight.
Continue to only very slowly replace old mileage distance signs from
the earlier half of the last century.
Yep - pretty Irish.
Zoney
P.S. To be honest, the signage in Ireland is only there at all at all
for the sole purpose of directing tourists into the countryside where
they get lost and spend money on our Aran sweaters and
Celtic/Leprechaun trinkets. It works.
Perhaps the leprechauns should be put in charge of highway signage.
P.P.S. OK, it's also for the Dubliners too who
don't learn where Cork,
Kerry, Galway, Sligo, etc. (anything outside the M50) are really
located.
My crude impression of the map of the Irish roads system was that it was
designed so that it would be difficult to travel between two west coast
communities without going through Dublin. :-)
Ec