The impact of bilingual road signs on motorists must be reviewed before any more are erected, the transport minister has said.

Stewart Stevenson was responding to a call from Highland Council for more English-Gaelic signage on trunk roads.

Mr Stevenson said there was anecdotal evidence of motorists performing u-turns on the carriageway after misreading the signs.

The report from a review of existing trunk road signage is due in 2011.

Highland Council’s Gaelic committee wrote to Mr Stevenson asking that the review should not be seen as a barrier to the expansion of bilingual signage.

via BBC NEWS | Scotland | Highlands and Islands | Drivers ‘misread’ bilingual signs.