New road signage in Cork

MG · 03-12-2004 9:47am #1

I notice there are new road signs in cork city centre with references such as J1, J2 etc. Having not been able to keep in touch with the news in the past few days, I hadn't heard about it before I saw the signs. They are high quality reflective signs which is very welcome.

The J, I assume stands for Johnson, but he prefers to be called J.

parsi · 03-12-2004 9:56am

:-)

Saw one last night for the first time

Victor · 03-12-2004 10:01am

MG wrote:

I notice there are new road signs in cork city centre with references such as J1, J2 etc. Having not been able to keep in touch with the news in the past few days, I hadn't heard about it before I saw the signs. They are high quality reflective signs which is very welcome. The J, I assume stands for Johnson, but he prefers to be called J.

Probably "junction". In Dublin, two inner orbital routes have been designated and you can pick up maps in libraries and petrol stations, so you can plan your journey away from the very city centre.

dowlingm · 03-12-2004 2:58pm

"orbital junctions! orbital junctions? is dat de new ting now is it?"

BrianD · 03-12-2004 5:48pm

Except nobody in Dublin actually uses them because a) there is no explaination signs to give motorists approaching the city that an orbital route exists and b) the signage is microscopic.

dudara · 03-12-2004 5:52pm

The J, I assume stands for Johnson, but he prefers to be called J.

LMAO Dowtcha boy

I've seen these nes additions to the city signage as well. They just kind of popped up all of a sudden. I presume that the signs, along with the frenzied pace of road works, probably has something to do with the pending capital of culture malarky.

The part of the signs that reference N22 N8 etc are fine, I understand that, but I would have to honestly admit that I have no idea where junction J15 is?

Eurorunner · 03-12-2004 5:58pm

If there was ever a place that needed a spend on road signs, its cork....going on my experience going round in circles in traffic last year. Its no harm to have signs for other places apart from Dublin like :rolleyes:

spacetweek · 03-12-2004 7:00pm

BrianD wrote:

Except nobody in Dublin actually uses them because a) there is no explaination signs to give motorists approaching the city that an orbital route exists and b) the signage is microscopic.

I use them all the time.

Not the junction part, though, which is only useful if you have a map, but the directional info, e.g. <- N2 N3 etc.

dmeehan · 06-12-2004 11:38am

was there any announcement made about these signs?

seen some of them alright, but only blue ones. is there only 1 orbital route in cork?

Victor · 07-12-2004 1:46pm

dmeehan wrote:

seen some of them alright, but only blue ones. is there only 1 orbital route in cork?

It actually has quite a few - it's just that they overlap and stop half way.

MG · 09-12-2004 11:41am

While on the subject of Cork signs, how about a few signs for the railway station. There are loads of signs for the airport and the ferry port but to the best of my knowledge there is only one for the train station which appears to date from the 50's, is so filthy it can't be read and is in a crap position. Considering the station is on a one way system it would be a welcome addition.

New road signage in Cork

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