road markings on hill into Patong (60 kph)

[britpop]

How strange, big farang type road marking in a circular shape on the hill road into patong, great!!!!, wait for it, they read 60 kilo meter per hour, then go to 30 kpr, but where they read 60 surely they should be 30 aswel, if you were doing 60 you could not brake in time to take the corners safely, now god forbid i criticize some sort of safety markings being done, but it's so dangerous to mark 60 kilo metres per hour, cos we all know the thai's will take that literally.

[NomadJoe]

Yeah these speed limit signs have been popping up all over the island lately. It's funny you call them "farang" style. To me they are "foreign", or "international" style because we don't have them in the states. Ours look very different. The circular ones are the ones agreed to in the 1949 UN road traffic act. It is interesting that the US is in violation of this act by having different signs.

Having ridden around Thailand quite a bit, I have seen many examples of posted speeds, usually of the yellow variety warning of a curve ahead, being way off in either direction. Interpreting road signage in Thailand is a bit like trying to solve a life or death puzzle.

[stevenl]

it's so dangerous to mark 60 kilo metres per hour, cos we all know the thai's will take that literally

Are you seriously trying to tell us Thais obey the road signs here?

[IrishIvan]

 

it's so dangerous to mark 60 kilo metres per hour, cos we all know the thai's will take that literally

Are you seriously trying to tell us Thais obey the road signs here?

or farangs?

[hkt83100]

I am just waiting for the first accident to happen because off these markings. Wait for the first big rain, these signs will be slippery like hell, and breaking with a motorbike will be very dangerous.

Edited to correct the errors of a spell checker.

Edited November 9, 2013 by hkt83100

[steelepulse]

Is this a sign on a post, or a big painted sign on the actual road surface which will surely be slippery and dangerous, especially if there's an incline at all?

[Sharp]

Try keeping to the "60kph" speed as seen its too fast as far as I can see

Try it

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[andreandre]

Try keeping to the "60kph" speed as seen its too fast as far as I can see

Try it

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At last... IMO thats exactly what the OP was alluding to..;

"where they read 60 surely they should be 30 aswel, if you were doing 60 you could not brake in time to take the corners safely"

[phuketjock]

My take on the signs on the road are that they are the speed not to be exceeded not the speed that you required to be travelling at

and that the idea is to gradually slow you down for the sharp bend.

PS. The signs appear to have been laid with an abrasive included to avoid the suggested slippage/skidding.

Edited November 9, 2013 by phuketjock

[tolsti]

on a slight divergance.... I noticed today that they are tarring the surface where the road collapsed on the hill... maybe the work is just about finished now.

[nedkellylives]

They are installing speed cameras on the , so people need to know the maximum legal speed they can travel at

usually speed cameras are located after these signs

[stevenl]

I am just waiting for the first accident to happen because off these markings. Wait for the first big rain, these signs will be slippery like hell, and breaking with a motorbike will be very dangerous.

Edited to correct the errors of a spell checker.

Wait, when a minibus has an accident in rain and claims 'because of the rain', it is the driver that made the mistake according to the TV community, but when a motorbike slips in the rain, it is because the road was slippery because of the signs?

[Sharp]

Try keeping to the "60kph" speed as seen its too fast as far as I can see

Try it

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At last... IMO thats exactly what the OP was alluding to..;

"where they read 60 surely they should be 30 aswel, if you were doing 60 you could not brake in time to take the corners safely"

Yep yr right was a little early for me without a coffee...

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[hkt83100]

[...] these signs will be slippery like hell, and breaking with a motorbike will be very dangerous.

[...] but when a motorbike slips in the rain, it is because the road was slippery because of the signs?

Mmmmh, not what I said, is it? What I mean is, it adds to the danger and requires more attention of the driver. An impression of the "slippability" you can get at the markings of the round-about at the north end of Taveewong Road (Beach Road)...

[britpop]

Yeah these speed limit signs have been popping up all over the island lately. It's funny you call them "farang" style. To me they are "foreign", or "international" style because we don't have them in the states. Ours look very different. The circular ones are the ones agreed to in the 1949 UN road traffic act. It is interesting that the US is in violation of this act by having different signs.

Having ridden around Thailand quite a bit, I have seen many examples of posted speeds, usually of the yellow variety warning of a curve ahead, being way off in either direction. Interpreting road signage in Thailand is a bit like trying to solve a life or death puzzle.

WHAT THE DEFINITION OF A FARANG, a foreigner or someone from the international community, so i think farang style markings was quite accurate as a description, i'm suggesting speed bumps, right on the main gradient down Patong hill on both sides, i hear you shout "crazy", yes it is, but so are so many deaths and major accidents