{"id":646,"date":"2007-01-31T16:10:47","date_gmt":"2007-01-31T08:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2007\/confusing-road-signs-to-be-corrected-motc\/"},"modified":"2018-08-22T16:23:24","modified_gmt":"2018-08-22T08:23:24","slug":"confusing-road-signs-to-be-corrected-motc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2007\/confusing-road-signs-to-be-corrected-motc\/","title":{"rendered":"confusing road signs to be corrected: MOTC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwan&#8217;s Ministry of Transportation and Communications is calling on the public to report confusing or unclear highway signs. <\/p>\n<p>The ministry&#8217;s Institute of Transportation (<span class=\"py\">Ji&#257;ot&#333;ngb&#249; Y&#249;nsh&#363; Y&#225;nji&#363;su&#466;<\/span>) has set up a toll-free telephone line for people who want to report such signs. The number is 0800-231-900, extension 5. Or people can make submissions through the <a href=\"http:\/\/safety.iot.gov.tw\/\">institute&#8217;s Web site<\/a> (Mandarin only).<\/p>\n<p>I doubt that the ministry can be convinced that the awkward typography and tiny lettering of the romanization on many signs are indeed errors that need correction. Still, it&#8217;s worth a try. But as for the use of Tongyong Pinyin&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Signs will be corrected within 15 days, according to the ministry.<\/p>\n<p>sources: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chinapost.com.tw\/newinstall\/archives\/taiwan\/2007131\/101346.htm\">Public assistance sought to improve confusing road signs<\/a>, CNA via the <em>China Post<\/em>, January 31, 2007<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/c.yam.com\/www\/nlink\/r.c?http:\/\/news.yam.com\/bcc\/life\/200701\/20070131897470.html\"><span class=\"py\">Ji&#257;ot&#333;ngb&#249; zh&#250;b&#249; g&#462;ish&#224;n l&#249;bi&#257;o &#8212; hu&#257;ny&#237;ng t&#237;g&#333;ng ji&#224;ny&#225;n<\/span><\/a> (&#20132;&#36890;&#37096;&#36880;&#27493;&#25913;&#21892;&#36335;&#27161; &#27489;&#36814;&#25552;&#20379;&#24314;&#35328;), <span class=\"py\">Zh&#333;nggu&#462;ng x&#299;nw&#233;n w&#462;ng<\/span> (&#20013;&#24291;&#26032;&#32862;&#32178;), January 31, 2007<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yam.com\/chinatimes\/society\/200701\/20070131896264.html\">&#35242;&#21644;&#24615;&#22294;&#24418;&#36335;&#27161; &#39381;&#39387;&#19981;&#20877;&#38695;&#29022;&#29022;<\/a>, <em>China Times<\/em>, January 31, 2007<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwan&#8217;s Ministry of Transportation and Communications is calling on the public to report confusing or unclear highway signs. The ministry&#8217;s Institute of Transportation (Ji&#257;ot&#333;ngb&#249; Y&#249;nsh&#363; Y&#225;nji&#363;su&#466;) has set up a toll-free telephone line for people who want to report such &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2007\/confusing-road-signs-to-be-corrected-motc\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-signage","category-taiwan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7815,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646\/revisions\/7815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}