More driver wriggling

This is a new wriggle, I couldn't read the sign that said "stop".

"Ministers are drawing up plans to ban people from taking their driving test
in a foreign language following claims many motorists cannot read traffic
signs."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti....html?ITO=1490


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Simon Mason
http://www.simonmason.karoo.net/

"Simon Mason" writes:

This is a new wriggle, I couldn't read the sign that said "stop".

Which is octagonal, precisely so that you don't have to read it---even
when it is covered in paint/ mud and hanging off its pole at a jaunty
angle after some Pole has crashed his paint/ mud lorry into it...

Mind you, there are a lot of signs which now permit written modifiers
(e.g. `cycle event', `except buses and cycles') where they were
previously not permitted. We seem to be trying to catch up with the
continental Europeans in this regard.

"Ministers are drawing up plans to ban people from taking their
driving test in a foreign language following claims many motorists
cannot read traffic signs."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti....html?ITO=1490

Many existing motorists *cannot* read traffic signs, whether they are
`foreign' or not. Perhaps we need to re-test them under this new
regime? We'd also need to stop people with `foreign' driving licenses
operating their motor vehicles on `British roads for British people'
without a re-test?

All-in-all, this story comes across less as a wriggle and more of the
sort of spitefulness we always get under a Tory government and gleefully
reported by the Daily Mail. It would make more sense to put all of the
road signs (and modifiers) into the Highway Code and translate it into
lots of languages. Reciprocal arrangements would certainly help me when
I'm cycling around a `foreign' country.

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Mark