There is a difference between having an opinion on something and feeling personally affected by it! Here we are again on a discussion forum getting tetchy at people for discussing things!
It doesn't bother me overly, but people will often comment on something if they think it daft or don't understand what it's all about. Nothing unusual in that at all. Going to
enormous lengths to cater for a langauge that nobody uses is likely to come under that heading for quite a few I would think. On a more practical level, it makes navigating Wales for the uneducated more difficult than it needs to be, which is counter-intuitive in a place with a lively tourist economy. On the railway, relentless automated announcements are doubly relentless when you have to have each one twice. When the non-English version is highly likely to be catering for absolutely nobody on the entire station it doesn't help to make them more tolerable! As somebody said upthread, the inevitable endless drivel on the new Metro stock really is going to be beyond the pale if every auto announcement plays twice. They really are going to have to sit down and think very carefully about how important it is to some people, because I genuinely don't think people will put up with being announced at non-stop all the way up the Valleys. And then of course, in some people's minds, there's the 'English funding' nest of hornets and how much all those extra signs must cost....
