I see that this past Friday, Ireland finally eliminated what was one of my primary sources of confusion while driving there by changing its speed-limit signs to use kilometers per hour.
During our visit this past summer, we had a rental car with a metric-only digital speedometer, and distance signs were in kilometers, but speed-limit signs were in miles per hour -- with no indication of the units being used on the signs themselves. I got the hang of left-side driving right away, but I thought that 60 km/h (36 mph!) was a little low for the first big road that we pulled on to as we left the airport ...
Posted by Kevin at January 23, 2005 06:34 PM