Road signs in Ireland

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Chris5156 wrote:The 1949 convention used a red circle for all mandatory instructions. If it was a "you must", it had a symbol in a red circle; if it was a "you must not" it had a symbol in a red circle with a diagonal red bar through it.
That rule might not be as simple as it seems. For example, imagine a maximum speed limit. Is that "You must stay below 40mph" or "You must not drive above 40mph"? Either seems like a reasonable way of wording it. (Also, you'd need an entirely different sign for a minimum speed limit.)

An "end of restriction" sign is also a little difficult to design in this scheme, although the grey-on-white that we use in our present system is distinctive enough that it could be made to work even if the strikethrough were ambiguous.
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Berk wrote:... our system (which is the ‘gold standard’, to me at least).
In theory perhaps, but if it were true in practice we wouldn't have a 400-page thread called 'Botched Roadsigns'! :laugh:
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Berk wrote:... our system (which is the ‘gold standard’, to me at least).
In theory perhaps, but if it were true in practice we wouldn't have a 400-page thread called 'Botched Roadsigns'! :laugh:
That's more because of the relative skill level of most sign designers, rather than any issue of the system itself :lol:
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Some of the health warning signs on bleach seem to be a cross between Ireland's diamonds and the rest of Europe's triangles. Diamonds with a red border.
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Folks,
Stumbled across this on You-tube, as well as some great railway scenes, there are decent flashes of Irish signage. I will not pass comment on the humour subject matter!

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Sulzer:1999 wrote:Folks,
Stumbled across this on You-tube, as well as some great railway scenes, there are decent flashes of Irish signage. I will not pass comment on the humour subject matter!

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWpD6v1hB0U&sns=em
I created a thread discussing the signs shown in that clip some years ago :)

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Sulzer:1999 wrote:Folks,
Stumbled across this on You-tube, as well as some great railway scenes, there are decent flashes of Irish signage. I will not pass comment on the humour subject matter!

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWpD6v1hB0U&sns=em

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A42_Sparks wrote:
Sulzer:1999 wrote:Folks,
Stumbled across this on You-tube, as well as some great railway scenes, there are decent flashes of Irish signage. I will not pass comment on the humour subject matter!

Murray Duncan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWpD6v1hB0U&sns=em
I created a thread discussing the signs shown in that clip some years ago :)

viewtopic.php?f=1&t=10739
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Sulzer:1999 wrote:Sorry!
No need to apologise, I thought you might be interested in the discussion :thumbsup:
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A42_Sparks wrote:
Sulzer:1999 wrote:Sorry!
No need to apologise, I thought you might be interested in the discussion :thumbsup:
Yes, thanks, I do now recall reading the thread all those years ago, nice to read again!
On my (so far) only visit to Ireland in 1984, I do remember thinking that the signage in general was a bit of a hodge-podge of styles.
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I think it’s settled down since then. Become a lot more uniform, and strongly resembles British signage (apart from those horrid diamonds!! :x).

Mind you, I was hoping to see some ‘1980s’ (Irish) signage when I was in Cork, but couldn’t. Maybe it’s been replaced now, though it was still on StreetView a year or two ago.

Would also like to see some examples of early 1970s signage too (like the ones in the other thread) - if any pics exist.
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Sulzer:1999 wrote:On my (so far) only visit to Ireland in 1984, I do remember thinking that the signage in general was a bit of a hodge-podge of styles.
1984 was in what I call the 'golden era' for Irish signage. Most if not all of the 'pre-Worboys' signs were still in situ on minor roads but on the major routes the new post-1977 style was starting to roll out, as well as a few trialled local sign variants in places like Donegal and Wicklow. It was a great time to be interested in road signs.
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Berk wrote:Mind you, I was hoping to see some ‘1980s’ (Irish) signage when I was in Cork, but couldn’t. Maybe it’s been replaced now, though it was still on StreetView a year or two ago.
Cork really is a graveyard for road signs, especially direction signs. This is one of my favourites.

The road network there is great for fans of variety though!
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Johnathan404 wrote:
Berk wrote:Mind you, I was hoping to see some ‘1980s’ (Irish) signage when I was in Cork, but couldn’t. Maybe it’s been replaced now, though it was still on StreetView a year or two ago.
Cork really is a graveyard for road signs, especially direction signs. This is one of my favourites.

The road network there is great for fans of variety though!
The former N1 still has quite a few green signs, suggesting that it still carries that number. I've seen them in Dublin and Drogheda.
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Just not replacing old stuff that. The N1 is of course now replaced by the motorway as that's how the Irish system works.
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Old non symbolic No Entry in early 1960s or so at this location

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Nice to see the old ‘PW’-style signs there. :) So they clearly had Irish on them, even in those days.
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Berk wrote:Nice to see the old ‘PW’-style signs there. :) So they clearly had Irish on them, even in those days.
Still plenty of examples of them in place, if you know where to look.

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Johnathan404 wrote:
Berk wrote:Nice to see the old ‘PW’-style signs there. :) So they clearly had Irish on them, even in those days.
Still plenty of examples of them in place, if you know where to look.
The "No Entry" sign is an older generation than the directional signage, as the cló Gaelach font on the Irish shows.
And earlier version of the directional sign style was probably first introduced in the 1956 regulations

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And the ones still around were introduced in 1962
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