S Africa plans road signs clearance for 2010 World Cup

South Africa is planning to clear up the confusing road sign in preparation for the 2010 World Cup.

The confusing town and city names will cause "difficulties" for travelers during the World Cup, local organizing committee head Danny Jordaan said in Parliament on Tuesday.

"The traveling fans are going to have difficulties to get to the places whose names are not clearly on the directional signs or on the airport destination boards," the South African Press Association cited him as sayings.

"If you travel from Johannesburg to Nelspruit, the sign is not always clear. If you go to Nelson Mandela Bay you are not going to find a sign at the airport. No plane goes there. Yet you get off and there is a big sign saying 'welcome to Nelson Mandela Bay'," he said.

Cities such as Port Elizabeth may have to consider joining the name with Nelson Mandela Bay, Jordaan said.

"The same applies to Mangaung. You drive to Bloemfontein but you get welcomed to Mangaung.

"Even when you go to Polokwane, somewhere you go through the second toll gate, there is a sign saying you are some kilometers from Pietersburg. Then the board changes to say how far you are from Polokwane."

Jordaan stressed "These are things that are going to have to be sorted out."

Source: Xinhua