Saturday, October 18, 2008

Numerous adverts on the roadside sometimes confuses people- Enjoy this pictorial scene

A man is seen reading a sign boards in despair probably wondering whether he can know the location of a particular area indicated in these signboards which are haphazardly placed at a junction road at Sinza in Afrika Sana area on the outskirts of Dar es Salaam city. Readers of these signboards normally gets confused due to their haphazard placements especially at a junction point, an aspect that makes them not to be able to identify the particular location as might have been directed in a signboard. For a stranger, this is quite difficult for any circumstances. It’s therefore the case for city planners to ensure that, the planning of the city is taken into account with appropriate measures that cannot cause inconveniences to strangers.

Haphazard placement of roadside adverts like these ones here, causes confusion to readers. The city council has to look at the possible way to avert the growing phenomenon which seems to be common in most junction roads in the city of Dar es Salaam.

An unidentified young boy is seen reading an advertising signboard along Shekilango Road at Kijitonyama suburb. Signboards made up of a linen clothes like this one here are scattered in many places in the city of Dar es Salaam and its environs. According to one expert, this is a cost effective way of advertising which has recently emerged in the city of Dar es Salaam.

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