Road signs

luckat

Is there any body overseeing the road signs around the country and standardising them?

Driving from Galway to Dublin yesterday, I saw many excellent speed limit signs - double signs, one on either side of the road, each a metre across.

But once you cross the Dublin city limits these disappear, to be replaced by signs only on the left of the road.

And there have been many postings here about the confusing and missing signs for entrance to and exit from major roads, dual carriageways and motorways.

Apart from the speed limits, the direction signs can be bad. Try to navigate from Dundrum to Enniskerry, or from Dublin Airport to Dublin City (or vice versa) without knowing the road. The signs aren't a help.

Who's in charge of all this? Anyone?

Irish Salfordia

The National Roads Authority are supposedly responsible for signs on National Routes, but individual local authorities do their own signage within their boundaries - hence confussion and variation

Victor

luckat wrote:

But once you cross the Dublin city limits these disappear, to be replaced by signs only on the left of the road.

There are relatively few changes.

http://www.dublincity.ie/living_in_the_city/getting_around/by_car/traffic_management/speed_limits.asp

Chris_533976

And the trouble with speed limits on both sides of the road is that someone inevitably turns one of them around.

BrianD

South Dublin seems to be particularly bad. Take the N11 for example where the speed limit signage is dreadful. You have situations where -

- there is only signage on the left hand side despite that fact is a dual carriageway.
- There is no speed limit posted after many intersections.
- Bizarrely some of this signage is posted on the minor roads that connect to the N11. this leads to a situation where the posted speed limit actually increases as you approach the traffic lights!!
- There a number of places where the speed limit varies within a short distance so one limit will be posted both sides of the carriageway and the next will only be on the left.
- some of the speed limit signs are the smaller types and they are double or treble hung on a single post (along with signs for bus lane usage etc.)
- Somewhat unfairly the speedlimit sign that is posted northbound while approaching the Belfield fly over is one of the tiny ones.

Ideally the signage should be both sides of the road on a dual way, on double poles to prevent twisting and it would be a wise idea, as in NSW Australia, to have the speed limit painted on the road beside each sign for added impact.

Meath CC seem to have done a good job during the metric changeover. There is now a sign posted at a sensible distance as you enter each road.

daymobrew

BrianD wrote:

on double poles to prevent twisting

Even easier could be to screw a bolt through the band (that attaches the sign to the pole) and the pole (as suggested in the sticky, which I can't find atm, about poor road signage).

Victor

It was unstickied as it had taken on a life of its own.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=51931632#post51931632