I com­mend the rel­e­vant au­thor­i­ties for bright­en­ing road signs and mark­ings through­out the coun­try, to the ben­e­fit of mo­torists and pedes­tri­ans alike. How­ev­er, I have some con­cerns about a par­tic­u­lar road mark­ing lo­cat­ed on Fifth Street in Barataria, close to the Sixth Av­enue traf­fic lights, in both the east- and west-bound lanes.

The mark­ing is sup­posed to read "No Right Turn" but be­cause it is writ­ten in­cor­rect­ly, a mo­torist will ac­tu­al­ly read the re­verse: "Turn Right No." While those of us who are fa­mil­iar with the area will not be chal­lenged by this, the au­thor­i­ties need to spare a thought for vis­i­tors and oth­ers who aren't ac­cus- tomed to tra­vers­ing that route.

I would like to think that there ex­ists some kind of in­ter­na­tion­al stan­dard for paint­ing road mark­ings ap­pro­pri­ate­ly, to re­duce or elim­i­nate al­to­geth­er any am­bi­gu­i­ty for dri­vers. But I stand to be cor­rect­ed on this. In the mean­time, I re­al­ly think the mark­ings ought to be changed.

M New­ton

Champs Fleurs