Himalayan Road Guidance Poetry

Himalayan road signs. HIMANK
Also when stone cold sober, don’t drive like a dober.

HIMANK is a road safety project in India’s northerly Ladakh region and a great name for an organisation. Pathetically for me, I suppose this because it rhymes with something rude. This is poetry in motion.

 

feelthecurves

I can see this working on that really crappy bit of the M25 at Cockfosters where all the boy racers come off.

 

expecttheunexpected

Still, these words are there to save lives and that is surely writing at it’s most profound.

ONW

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