Let’s go metric before we all go bananas

FINALLY sanity is about to prevail on our banana republic’s road traffic ‘management’ system with the recent announcement of a ‘seamless’ integration of distances and speeds on Irish roads.

There are few things as bizarre as road distances and speeds quoted in kilometres while car speedometers are in miles per hour with kilometres in small background italics.

With so many foreign tourists and non-national residents now, it is just typical Irish top-of-the-head, back-of-an-envelope ‘planning.’