BHOPAL: A traffic signal in Bhopal has lost its bearings. 'Thamba (stop, in Marathi)', it tells Bhopali motorists, and when you look up, it cheerfully adds 'Welcome to Thane Municipal Corporation' in a 30-second loop.
It may seem like an unintended dose of hilarity, but what takes the fun out of it is that the faux pas has gone unnoticed or unrectified for almost a month. This traffic sign is at the intersection of the newly inaugurated rail-overbridge (RoB) at Subhash Nagar. CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan had opened the RoB on Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose's 125 birth anniversary on February 23, but the signal was set up well before that.
