Just wondering. What determines whether the name of a place on the route ahead is in brackets or not. Seems a bit arbitrary.
by Giant-of-a-man
Just wondering. What determines whether the name of a place on the route ahead is in brackets or not. Seems a bit arbitrary.
by Giant-of-a-man
17 comments
Brackets mean you’re currently going the right direction but there’s a turn off coming your way.
No brackets= End destination of road.
Brackets = Other destinations en route or as exits from road.
The bracket means you will have to turn off eventually if you’re going to that place. No bracket means the road you’re on leads to the town.
Motorway and dual carriageway road signs are actually really well done, the signs every .5km telling you how far you’ve gone are useful too
Should put Irish and English in different colours. Would be easier to read at a glance.
Dublin needs no brackets except for *throws grenade* Fontaines 🏃➡️
Brackets means you do the math inside them first.
Do these road signs usually just have ‘Áth Cliath’ as the translation for Dublin?
Isn’t it missing the ‘Baile’?
If you don’t know the reason why do you assume it’s arbitrary?
BIMDAS all the way.
Junior Cert 2015 & Leaving Cert 2017 Gang knows the drill.
Notice also the little marker reminding you that the M11 is part of the larger [European route E1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_route_E1). It runs from Larne to Seville, except for the segment Rosslare-Ferrol, where they’ve taken the road in.
They should get rid of the bastardised words and the signs would look so much better.
Usually brackets mean that at some point you have to turn off the road and take another road to get to the place. For instance Dundalk is put in brackets on the N2 southbound near Monaghan/Castleblayney as you have to turn onto the N53 to actually get there.
These signs do seem a bit arbitrary though. You do have to turn off the M11 to get into the towns of Bray/Wicklow, but you also have to turn off every other motorway to get into towns not in brackets. Seems a bit strange that they’re in brackets.
No brackets = the road you’re on leads to the place
Brackets = the road you’re on leads to the road to the place
Why aren’t these snippets of info snuck into RTE ad gaps?
Just to add the distances between two towns are calculated from the main post offices in each town
Aw I love this sign. I’m from out of continent but my family lives in all of these places.