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#137455 07/10/03 08:21 PM
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In Ireland the red circle signs never mean prohibited, infact the exact opposite! If something's in a red circle it means that it's a regulatory sign and must be obeyed.. e.g. an arrow pointing left in a red circle = keep left. These are gradually being replaced by the standard European white on blue signs to prevent confusion!

Prohibited = Red circle with a line crossed through it.

No Entry (Unique to IRL as far as I know but very logical)
[Linked Image from europcar.ie]

Straight ahead only (one way system):
[Linked Image from europcar.ie]


Normal Yeild sign:
[Linked Image from europcar.ie]

Here's a Yeild sign in an Irish speaking area on the west coast:
[Linked Image from leafpile.com]

These also appear everywhere:
[Linked Image from accesscarrentals.com]

Our guy looks less like he's working with an umbrella:

[Linked Image from athlone.ie]

This one is VERY obvious: (At docks/rivers/quays)

[Linked Image from athlone.ie]

#137456 07/10/03 08:30 PM
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There are also special orange diamonds for Roadworks

[Linked Image from athlone.ie]
[Linked Image from athlone.ie]

Some more uniquely irish examples:
[Linked Image from elve.net]
[Linked Image from elve.net]

And our VERY confusing direction signs, found at all rural intersections and can have up to 30 finger posts pointing towards every village (classified as a place having more than one house)
[Linked Image from isye.gatech.edu]

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#137457 07/11/03 05:32 AM
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I thought the background to some of those signs looked familiar -- I guess we've been visiting the same websites! [Linked Image]

I've always found the signs in Ireland quite curious: A unique mixture of British/European and American, with a few home-grown signs thrown in for good measure. (That's the way it appears to an outsider, anyway.) The keep-left sign at Irish roundabouts is one which has always struck me as odd-looking:

[Linked Image from smartdriving.co.uk]

Have they finished changing all the direction signs to kilometers yet? Last time I was there you had to check carefully to see if a marker was in miles or km.




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#137458 07/11/03 08:27 AM
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Paul,

Well, no not really, all new signs post-1970s are in KM and have KM written on them. There is supposed to be a change of speed limits to KMPH at some stage too which would actually involve moving away from the standard EU circular speed limit signs to something that looks substantially different to avoid confusion between MPH and KMPH

At the moment in very rural areas you'll still find the odd sign in miles on a cast iron fingerpost sign with the old road numbering system too!

The current road numbering system has 3 categories:

R- Regional route (3-digit number) e.g. R-604
N- National Primary / Secondary Route N-17
and M- Motorway M-7

The old system had T- Trunk
and L- Link

#137459 07/12/03 05:59 AM
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I think I saw a couple of the old T and L route signs when I was there: Most confusing as the numbers bear no resemblance to the new N/R system!

Nothing whatever to do with electrical matters now, but it doesn't hurt to go off at a tangent every now and then: [Linked Image]

British roads are classified as A (primary) and B (secondary) routes. Some of the largest A-roads are classed as trunk routes and have a T suffix, e.g. A12(T). There is actually a very complex scheme as to how the roads were originally numbered, although to most people it appears to be quite random. Motorways (expressways) are designated with M numbers and blue signs.

French roads have N (National) and D (Department) numbers, the latter being the equivalent of our counties. Expressways have A numbers (Autoroute).

#137460 07/12/03 07:52 AM
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Austrian roads have a pretty simple numbering scheme. County roads aren't numbered at all IIRC, Federal Roads (roads connecting larger towns) have B numbers (for Bundesstrasze, meaning they are competence of the government, not the county) like B1 (from Vienna to Salzburg) or B221. Then we got the "Schnellstraszen", something between Federal roads and Expressways, having an S number and a speed limit of 120 km/h as opposed to 100 on anything below. They can look like full expressways with blue signs and everything, but sometimes also like simple small roads, only with blue signs and overtaking prohibited (double white line between the directions). Then we got expressways, 130 km/h speed limit and A number (Autobahn), like A1 (West expressway, Vienna to Salzburg) or A2 (South expressway, to Styria, Carynthia and eventually the Italian border).

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