 Bilingual signposting is now the norm throughout the Western Isles (indeed for a time directional signposts there were monolingually Gaelic) and also in large parts of the mainland on local authority roads.In 1996, Highland Council decided to make use of Gaelic-only signposts in some areas.In 2001, the Scottish Government announced plans to erect bilingual signage along many of the trunk roads in the Scottish Highlands, in addition to those already erected on local-authority-maintained roads.