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[Abi]

I did have a laugh when I read this article especially the bit where it said that only 13% of the time did they recognise a "no entry sign". From my own experience that figure seems very high as any signs were routinely ignored even before they changed,.

Following a country-wide effort to replace Turkish road markers with EU-regulation signs, a report has found that many of Turkey's most common road signs are now unrecognizable to the majority of the country's motorists......

.......The motorists scored lowest when attempting to identify signs that meant “trucks forbidden” and “no entry,” recognizing the signs only 28 percent and 13 percent of the time, respectively......

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[KKW]

I don't think introducing EU traffic signs is going to make much difference to the death rate on Turkish roads.

Far better to introduce road awareness at a young age. Most Turkish kids have had only 1 lesson in crossing a road and that is "Launch yourself into the road and hope that traffic avoids you. If it doesn't, it's Allah's will."

[sunny]

In Cesme the council have made a traffic awareness park with all these new signs liberally dotted about but I've yet to see any children in there.
I don't know if it's part of the new signs scheme but white lines have been painted on the roads and we seem to have more than a zebra. Unfortunately it's not always clear why they are there.

[swabs]

Im sure that the Zebra lines dont mean the same as in other countries, in England it means that cars should stop and wait for people to cross. In Manavgat i learnt it means thats where you cross when there are no cars!! xx

[sunny]

No the ones here are warning ones. They have single ones as you are approaching a hazard then they have groups of 4 closer to the hazard. They are slightly raised so you get a drumming sound, a bit like a Spanish dancer.
Unfortunately though they must have had a surplus of paint because on the Dalyan Koy road they've gone mad and painted lines every few metres!