Saturday October 25, 2008
Road signs in various languages
By CHRISTINA CHIN
GEORGE TOWN: By December, tourists visiting Penang’s heritage enclave will be greeted by street names in multiple languages.
The state executive council approved the Penang Municipal Council’s application to put up the road signs in different languages at its meeting here yesterday, Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng said.
“I want to stress that the original Bahasa Malaysia signs will not be removed. We are just adding new ones in Chinese, Tamil and Arabic, to complement the existing signs.
“Depending on the characteristics of the areas concerned, the languages will differ. For instance, in Acheh Street, we will have an additional road sign in Arabic,” he said.
It was earlier reported that federal funding had been approved to put up the road signs in various languages in the inner city for the benefit of tourists.
State Local Government, Traffic Management and Environment Committee chairman Chow Kon Yeow said the exercise would “not cost much” and would be done in stages by the end of the year.
Asked if it would over-lap with the Penang Tourism Action Council’s plan to put up informative signs about popular tourists attractions in the state, Chow said it would not.
“We are just concentrating on street signs and it would only be within the heritage enclave,” he said.
Three months ago, several Gerakan members, led by former Penang Municipal Council councillor Dr Thor Teong Ghee, put up six road signs in Chinese to remind the DAP that it had to keep its word to come up with such road signs now that the party was helming the state.
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