Sign at Cork Airport.. what were they smoking?

embraer170 · 01-01-2006 8:38pm #1

Saw this sign just as you leave Cork airport:

Drive on the left
Conduire a droite *
Links Fahren

:rolleyes:
*yes the French is telling you to drive on the right.

Wish I got a picture.

(Edited for clarity)

PowerHouseDan · 01-01-2006 8:39pm

Eh?

amazingemmet · 01-01-2006 8:39pm

Have it at all Irish an english airports methinks, its for the foreign people who'd drive on the right.

mike65 · 01-01-2006 8:40pm

What?????????

The authorites at an Airport are telling tourists driving hire cars to drive on the left?????????????

Shock horror will the madness ever end?

Mike.

embraer170 · 01-01-2006 8:41pm

Maybe I should have made it a bit clearer.

The French sign is telling people to drive on the RIGHT.

Karoma · 01-01-2006 8:42pm

I think the OP's problem is with "Conduire a droite "

mike65 · 01-01-2006 8:42pm

Droite = right.

That is madness. Clearly the ppl of Cork are not cunning linguists.

Mike.

robinph · 01-01-2006 8:45pm

For some reason I've occasionally seen them on roads in the middle of the country as well, nowhere near any ports or airports. You'd have thought that Monsieur French bloke would have noticed that everyone else was driving on the other side of the road from him after he'd driven a 100k or so and not be needing the signs to remind him?

Dooom · 01-01-2006 8:47pm

But are they master debators?

ctrl-alt-delete · 01-01-2006 8:47pm

maybe roy keane had something to do with it......hoping paddy vieria was going to visit

01-01-2006 8:48pm

That signs been there for years.
Theres one on the Arklow by pass and coming up from Rosslare Europort too presumably for the continental drivers.

01-01-2006 8:49pm

ah droite

me was wondering as me knew embraer knew these things

mike65 · 01-01-2006 8:50pm

Actually they don't have nearly enough such signs. Its the easiest thing in the world to get up of a morning in a foreign land get in your car and pull out onto the road on the wrong side when leaving your hotel/b&b.

All exits from hotels, ports etc should have signs and arrow markings on the tarmac pointing in the correct direction for the left/right side of road. There is'nt always traffic around to remind you.

Mike.

DMC · 01-01-2006 8:50pm

Spike wrote:

But are they master debators?

Brendan O'Connor is from Cork, so.... yes!

therecklessone · 01-01-2006 8:51pm

And I wonder...

Has anyone bothered to tell them?

Litcagral · 01-01-2006 9:05pm

Earthman wrote:

Theres one on the Arklow by pass and coming up from Rosslare Europort too presumably for the continental drivers.

Yes but they do not have such a glaring mistake!

Karoma · 01-01-2006 9:30pm

embraer170:
http://www.cork-airport.com/AR_Cork/Live/Lv_pres_GenTemplate.asp?strPage_Name=CK_ContactUs

off ya pop.

parsi · 01-01-2006 9:33pm

robinph wrote:

For some reason I've occasionally seen them on roads in the middle of the country as well, nowhere near any ports or airports. You'd have thought that Monsieur French bloke would have noticed that everyone else was driving on the other side of the road from him after he'd driven a 100k or so and not be needing the signs to remind him?

Unlikely. 26 Years ago we met Monsieur French Bloke head on in the depths of the country. He and his buddies were ok but we weren't.

Scraggs · 01-01-2006 9:36pm

embraer170 wrote:

Saw this sign just as you leave Cork airport:

Drive on the left
Conduire a droite *
Links Fahren

:rolleyes:
*yes the French is telling you to drive on the right.

Wish I got a picture.

(Edited for clarity)

god that is so dangerous!!!
the person who wrote that sign is gonna feel like some puppet when they realise their mistake!

Litcagral · 01-01-2006 9:47pm

Scraggs wrote:

the person who wrote that sign is gonna feel like some puppet when they realise their mistake!

Aer Rianta !!!! no one will have been responsible - no one will bear the blame - no one will be at fault - six month inquiry - findings will be inconclusive etc. etc. !!!!

therecklessone · 01-01-2006 10:16pm

Litcagral wrote:

Aer Rianta !!!! no one will have been responsible - no one will bear the blame - no one will be at fault - six month inquiry - findings will be inconclusive etc. etc. !!!!

Pointless asking them, its the Cork Airport Authority now...

embraer170 · 01-01-2006 10:29pm

Actually it looked to me like a Cork county council sign.

Just as you exit the airport before going on the Kinsale road.

01-01-2006 10:34pm

mike65 wrote:

Droite = right.

That is madness. Clearly the ppl of Cork are not "cunning linguists".

Mike.

Yeah cork people aren,t good with the tongues!:D

Litcagral · 01-01-2006 10:34pm

therecklessone wrote:

Pointless asking them, its the Cork Airport Authority now...

Point taken although they still have "AR Cork" (Aer Rianta??) in their web address.

YeatsCounty · 02-01-2006 3:18am

embraer170 wrote:

Saw this sign just as you leave Cork airport:

Conduire a droite

That's pretty stupid, but it could be worse. They could have put the incorrect translation in Irish. :-/

Our man in Havana · 02-01-2006 3:42am

Can we get some photographic evidence please?

therecklessone · 02-01-2006 11:06am

Litcagral wrote:

Point taken although they still have "AR Cork" (Aer Rianta??) in their web address.

New name, same old laziness...

Dave! · 02-01-2006 11:16am

Has anybody reported it to the local council, or the airport, or whoever's in charge?

Might be a good idea!

damien · 02-01-2006 11:18am

Bond-007 wrote:

Can we get some photographic evidence please?

Feck, and I was just there.

therecklessone · 02-01-2006 11:33am

DaveMcG wrote:

Has anybody reported it to the local council, or the airport, or whoever's in charge?

Might be a good idea!

Nah, its much more fun taking the p*ss on a message board.

Dave! · 02-01-2006 11:43am

true dat

Sign at Cork Airport.. what were they smoking?

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