Identical signs on road in northern Thailand create social media drama

[webfact]

Identical signs on road in northern Thailand create social media drama

 

Thai caption: Drama of the repeated signs!

 

Thai social media was in uproar when pictures were posted that showed identical road signs next to each other. 

 

Many were saying that this was crazy and a terrible waste of public money. The old signs looked fine to them - why would you need to put in new ones at considerable cost?

 

Sanook went to investigate on route 117 between Phitsanuloke and Nakorn Sawan where they found highways department road crews dismantling the old signs. 

 

The authorities told the media that it was not wasteful of budgets. It was just new signage replace old ones that had been in place for ten years. 

 

The old signs would be recycled and erected on other secondary roads. 

 

Source: Sanook

 

 

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[worgeordie]

Phitsanulok,so nice ,they named it twice .

regards Worgeordie

[RotBenz8888]

Clever. If one sign is down by a sleepy drunk driver, hopefully the next one will hold.

[ChipButty]

As we know they have to do everything twice 

[George Bowman]

14 minutes ago, webfact said:

Many were saying that this was crazy and a terrible waste of public money.

There are numerous highway signs scattered throughout Thailand that should have been double-checked...

 

[sammieuk1]

Think a tree needs to be planted and a power pole also just to make sure there are no survivors when first cross-eyed driven pickup sees double????  

[ezzra]

People might thin they have drank too much to see double now... either that or it is an example of sheer stupidity...

[PatOngo]

Ka-ching, ka-ching!

[mok199]

Same same but

[Longcut]

8 minutes ago, missoura said:

There are numerous highway signs scattered throughout Thailand that should have been double-checked...

 

What does that mean?

[cooked]

The best road sign I ever saw was in BELGIUM at a T-junction:

To the left: ALL TRAFFIC"

To the right: "OTHER TRAFFIC". 

I rest my case.

[boonrawdcnx]

Just follow the money - and see who profits from it - multiple this by a million times every day and you still touch only the dip of the corruption iceberg in this country.


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[sanmyintmaung]

It is just a normal maintenance procedure called "Blanket replacement" — all signs in an area or route, or of a given sign type are replaced at specified time intervals.
A sign technician should not leave a sign down or take an old sign away and leave nothing in its place.
The technician should always have a replacement sign or sufficient repair materials while working in the field to take down the old sign.

Edited August 15, 2019 by sanmyintmaung

[George Bowman]

43 minutes ago, Longcut said:

What does that mean?

I've looked and looked but I have never located Tourism on a map.

[Mickc]

Because somebody is getting paid, no other valid reason for it... follow the money and there's your answer

[marko kok prong]

So the netizens are in a froth again.

[Misterwhisper]

1 hour ago, missoura said:

There are numerous highway signs scattered throughout Thailand that should have been double-checked...

 

 Funny. I remember a motorway sign near the Italian Adriatic resort town of Rimini in the 70s, which warned in English: "Slow down or you'll miss San Marino" (alluding to the tiny size of that micro state). In the original Italian the sign made more sense, of course: "Reduce speed for turn-off to San Marino".

[kcpattaya]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

The authorities told the media that it was not wasteful of budgets.

They were just filling their pockets, as usual. 

[30la]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

The authorities told the media that it was not wasteful of budgets. It was just new signage replace old ones that had been in place for ten years. 

Surely it is a waste of public money, instead of spending unnecessarily that money given to the needy, there are so many in Thailand!

[Somtamnication]

Surreal surreal

[inThailand]

3 hours ago, ChipButty said:

As we know they have to do everything twice 

That's on a good day

[British Bulldog]

Your know, despite living in Laos, I often drive in Thai roads for medical reasons (Visit hospitals) and simply a drive to Bangkok and elsewhere, sometimes I drive sections of roads that perfectly OK and yet they are being re-surfaced, now I read this article and see signs being replaced that don't really appear to require replacing, I really can't help thinking these circumstances that some high office in the local Provincial office or District office as a brother in Law in the road construction game, where various contracts are issues and profit sharing exist .... just sayin' ...

[wgdanson]

3 hours ago, cooked said:

The best road sign I ever saw was in BELGIUM at a T-junction:

To the left: ALL TRAFFIC"

To the right: "OTHER TRAFFIC". 

I rest my case.

There was a similar thing near my home in UK once which said NO GIVE WAY SIGN AT THIS JUNCTION. Why not just put GIVE WAY?

[wgdanson]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

The old signs would be recycled and erected on other secondary roads

But only 26km from P'lok and 13 from Bang Rakam.

[LawrenceN]

3 hours ago, Longcut said:

What does that mean?

To answer your question, if I had done the translation, it would read, "Welcome to these tourist destinations." I suppose you could also say "Enjoy these ..."

[LawrenceN]

2 hours ago, Misterwhisper said:

"Slow down or you'll miss San Marino" 

And don't blink either.

[Dumbastheycome]

Perhaps TVF needs a  "Funny Sign" thread ? Two examples I find hard to take seriously are " In Case of a Fire Do Not use the Lifts". And " Slow Men Working".

 

[hotchilli]

4 hours ago, worgeordie said:

Phitsanulok,so nice ,they named it twice .

regards Worgeordie

Twining towns... but only in Thailand Lol

[Khun Paul]

I have lived here over 15b years, Udon Thani is spelt 4 different ways, Loei is spelt at least 3 different ways and Pau Foilom is also spelt differently on signs near to it, thereby confusing people. The best I saw was was erected by the Provioncial Authorities which stated the event would start at 1430 AM . 

No-one appears to check and if they do it is not to worry .; Sheer incompetence coupled with stupidity and ignorance. 

[Tofer]

Common sense (between us foreigners) would dictate the replacement of the sign on the same posts, if really necessary at all, which it does not appear so from the pictures.