Would really question the value of the orbital route signage in this day and age. It’s a relatively complicated system, so it’s not that useful for tourists or other people who aren’t very familiar with the roads. Cork has one as well, I don’t think I’ve ever used it myself, or to help others find their way around. As a planning tool I think it’s fine, but signage wise, not so much. Who is it for like?
I do have some time for the Airport/M50 signs, they seem like a good way to quickly indicate routes that tourists and others less familiar with the cities might find useful. Although the other cities don’t have as convenient a shorthand.
Also strongly believe most of the cycle lane signage is bad. It fails to distinguish between the different types of cycle lanes, which is often relevant. If you look, they’re often wrong, confusing ped/cyclist shared space with divided lanes is a common one. Ambigious placement is another problem. Generally, road markings, colourings and icons do a better job than the signs.
Fantastic, it drives me mental how much street clutter there is in the city.
Prime example being College Green, it should be a lovely vista towards Trinity but it’s ruined by endless amounts of streetlight/tram/ signage poles, badly placed trees and those electricity boxes everywhere.
One of the startling things about old pictures of Ireland is how much nicer urban areas are with less cluttered signage, etc.
I can’t look through that, it’s too depressing.
Urban planning in Ireland is just bizarre in some spots. Residential areas with no trees on the footpaths (emerald isle my ass). A profusion of unnecessary street signs with an puzzling lack of posted speed limits – which when posted, are too tiny to be useful. I feel that this country is in desperate need of a complete overhaul in this area.
Insane how much signage there is around Dublin. Just one example: a 10 foot pole near the Four Courts that just has a Leap card logo at the top. Of course DCC won’t give a shit if you complain.
My mind started to wander a bit the other day while driving into town. I’d had a similar thought about how cluttered and ugly Street signs are.
I started wondering about,lets say 50 years time (if we don’t burn up by then) whether all signage could be handled by Augmented reality enabled windscreens. Speed signs, lights, the bulky temporary signage that goes up with roadworks. There’ll be no need for it when cars get techy enough and only generations who grew up in the smartphone age are left.
They have signs about signs in Dublin. Clearly nobody pays them any attention, only when it suits them.
Council is only adding more signs, never remove.
Great work – do Cork next – you will be there for years even if you could actually read the dirty signs.
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Very much agree with the piece.
Would really question the value of the orbital route signage in this day and age. It’s a relatively complicated system, so it’s not that useful for tourists or other people who aren’t very familiar with the roads. Cork has one as well, I don’t think I’ve ever used it myself, or to help others find their way around. As a planning tool I think it’s fine, but signage wise, not so much. Who is it for like?
I do have some time for the Airport/M50 signs, they seem like a good way to quickly indicate routes that tourists and others less familiar with the cities might find useful. Although the other cities don’t have as convenient a shorthand.
Also strongly believe most of the cycle lane signage is bad. It fails to distinguish between the different types of cycle lanes, which is often relevant. If you look, they’re often wrong, confusing ped/cyclist shared space with divided lanes is a common one. Ambigious placement is another problem. Generally, road markings, colourings and icons do a better job than the signs.
Fantastic, it drives me mental how much street clutter there is in the city.
Prime example being College Green, it should be a lovely vista towards Trinity but it’s ruined by endless amounts of streetlight/tram/ signage poles, badly placed trees and those electricity boxes everywhere.
One of the startling things about old pictures of Ireland is how much nicer urban areas are with less cluttered signage, etc.
I can’t look through that, it’s too depressing.
Urban planning in Ireland is just bizarre in some spots. Residential areas with no trees on the footpaths (emerald isle my ass). A profusion of unnecessary street signs with an puzzling lack of posted speed limits – which when posted, are too tiny to be useful. I feel that this country is in desperate need of a complete overhaul in this area.
Insane how much signage there is around Dublin. Just one example: a 10 foot pole near the Four Courts that just has a Leap card logo at the top. Of course DCC won’t give a shit if you complain.
My mind started to wander a bit the other day while driving into town. I’d had a similar thought about how cluttered and ugly Street signs are.
I started wondering about,lets say 50 years time (if we don’t burn up by then) whether all signage could be handled by Augmented reality enabled windscreens. Speed signs, lights, the bulky temporary signage that goes up with roadworks. There’ll be no need for it when cars get techy enough and only generations who grew up in the smartphone age are left.
They have signs about signs in Dublin. Clearly nobody pays them any attention, only when it suits them.
Council is only adding more signs, never remove.
Great work – do Cork next – you will be there for years even if you could actually read the dirty signs.