If anyone in Singapore notices this, I’d love to receive some photos of this new signage.<\/p>\n
SINGAPORE (dpa) – Signs and maps at subway stations are going multilingual in Singapore to help the elderly and others who might not read English, transport officials said Monday.<\/p>\n
Work is expected to be completed by the end of this year on signboards and maps in Chinese and Tamil, according to the Land Transport Authority (LTA).<\/p>\n
Station names in Malay are similar to English ones. “We are progressively changing the signs at all the stations,” The Straits Times quoted an LTA spokesman as saying.<\/p>\n
The cost is S$600,000 Singapore dollars (US$368,000).<\/p>\n
Twenty-five per cent of the 8,000 key signs at mass transit stations have been made bilingual so far.<\/p>\n
Previously, only a handful of stations in the city had signs in more than one language.<\/p>\n
Commuters who could not read English complained that they found it difficult to navigate the train system because the underground lines have no landmarks for orientation.<\/p>\n
Singapore’s predominantly Chinese population includes 15 per cent Malays and 6 per cent Indians.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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