Did some effing research to check whether bilingual road signs are actually dangerous/distracting/etc, after the recent #angearasdan Fort William row https://inews.co.uk/news/long-reads/bilingual-scotland-british-uk-road-signs-science-dangerous-639757
The science says a couple of things:
Firstly, that drivers do have to "chunk" information on long signs, whether they're just in English or in multiple languages, which slows them down a little and requires longer of them to make a decision https://inews.co.uk/news/long-reads/bilingual-scotland-british-uk-road-signs-science-dangerous-639757
Firstly, that drivers do have to "chunk" information on long signs, whether they're just in English or in multiple languages, which slows them down a little and requires longer of them to make a decision https://inews.co.uk/news/long-reads/bilingual-scotland-british-uk-road-signs-science-dangerous-639757
Reading time increases 15 per cent, according to one study, although it seems that's easy enough to absorb into most drivers' attention span. No worse than glancing at a satnav map, you'd imagine. https://inews.co.uk/news/long-reads/bilingual-scotland-british-uk-road-signs-science-dangerous-639757
There's no evidence that accidents increased or decreased on roads with bilingual signs compared to their monolingual equivalents elsewhere in Scotland. https://inews.co.uk/news/long-reads/bilingual-scotland-british-uk-road-signs-science-dangerous-639757
In conclusion, putting Gaelic (or Welsh, or Irish, or Basque, etc) on your road signs doesn't seem to be a problem.
Includes voices from Scotland (signs help Gaelic's status), Wales (we've already had this row, we won) and Ireland (wait, this is a row?). https://inews.co.uk/news/long-reads/bilingual-scotland-british-uk-road-signs-science-dangerous-639757
Includes voices from Scotland (signs help Gaelic's status), Wales (we've already had this row, we won) and Ireland (wait, this is a row?). https://inews.co.uk/news/long-reads/bilingual-scotland-british-uk-road-signs-science-dangerous-639757