The minister of transport is promising a decision soon on whether to make almost 100 types of traffic signs bilingual.

If we do go with bilingual signs, I really hope we get a better design than what we currently have.

The Expressway signs of are a classic example, is Te Ara Puke the name of this expressway, or the name for an expressway? The sign doesn’t provide that information.

  • Rangelus@lemmy.nz
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    10 months ago

    The 111 operator having to fish for information from someone who thinks they’re on “the Te Ara Puaki expressway” is only a minor consequence, I guess.

    This already happens.

    Many years ago I called the ambulance while driving along a short section of highway that everyone in the region just calls “the bypass”. They asked me if it was suchandsuch road. I literally had no idea. I’ve called it “the bypass” since its existence. I had to describe to the operator, while driving, where we were so they could find it on a map.