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Related: About this forumScotland to switch to driving on the right if independence given green light
Scottish nationalist leaders will attempt this week to give the trailing yes campaign a boost by revealing a series of measures aimed at showing what an independent country would look like.
Seeking to capitalise on the arguments this week about "bullying" England and keeping the pound, they will unveil an ambitious scheme to scrap the current English inspired road signage system. M for motorway will be replaced with a new S for Scotland and the A trunk roads will become N roads for Nationalist in honour of the new country. Blue will be the predominant backing colour.
The scale of the scheme is enormous: Scotland has 2,174 miles of road, including the 273-mile long A9 stretching from Edinburgh to John O'Groats known as the "spine of Scotland".
It is estimated that 58,000 signs will have to be replaced scrapping the famous road sign font known as "Transport" with a new Celtic-tinged typeface, Proclaimer. And it could be that they may take the opportunity to renumber all of Scotland's roads, beginning at one.
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/apr/01/scotland-driving-on-right-independence-road-scheme
pkdu
(3,977 posts)Should've realised being here in the UK too. I'll leave it anyway.
louis-t
(23,265 posts)It's already April fool's day in Scotland
muriel_volestrangler
(101,262 posts)Introduced 28 years ago (exactly, by an amazing coincidence ...)
LeftishBrit
(41,202 posts)Jeneral2885
(1,354 posts)adopt the atrocious American English as well? Harbour becomes Harbor.
theHandpuppet
(19,964 posts)... we just couldn't get the hang of where all those extra "r"s came from. You know, Saudi Arabier, Americer, Africer, et al. Played hell with our sense of geography.