The HCM City Transport Department has decided to change street nameplate designs to facilitate traffic and visitors.
The department's Urban Traffic Management Unit 1, which is in chargeof making the new designs, said the current plates are notwell-designed, and the street names are too small to see from adistance. The plates are only 50cm in length and 30cm in height, andletters are 8cm in height.
The plates cannot contain the word Duong (road) and the street name, especially for names with more than six letters.
Ha Le An, deputy chief of the Unit 1's Technique InfrastructureManagement Office, said his unit would work with the HCM City CommunistYouth Union to launch a street nameplate design contest for finding thebest design for city streets.
The new plates will be 97cm in length and 25cm in height to cover long street names with 9-cm high letters.
The word "road" will be abbreviated RD on the right corner of the plate to make it easier for foreigners to understand.
Unit 1 has chosen corrugated steel as the new material for the nameplates.
After the contest, the Transport Department will install new plates onmain streets for an experiment, and then on most streets in the city,An said./.
The department's Urban Traffic Management Unit 1, which is in chargeof making the new designs, said the current plates are notwell-designed, and the street names are too small to see from adistance. The plates are only 50cm in length and 30cm in height, andletters are 8cm in height.
The plates cannot contain the word Duong (road) and the street name, especially for names with more than six letters.
Ha Le An, deputy chief of the Unit 1's Technique InfrastructureManagement Office, said his unit would work with the HCM City CommunistYouth Union to launch a street nameplate design contest for finding thebest design for city streets.
The new plates will be 97cm in length and 25cm in height to cover long street names with 9-cm high letters.
The word "road" will be abbreviated RD on the right corner of the plate to make it easier for foreigners to understand.
Unit 1 has chosen corrugated steel as the new material for the nameplates.
After the contest, the Transport Department will install new plates onmain streets for an experiment, and then on most streets in the city,An said./.
