A Gulf News article contains interviews with residents and visitors to the UAE who say that it is very difficult finding your way to cities and within cities.There are a lack of maps, an inadequate naming of streets, an absence of street numbers and not a Zip (area) Code to be found.
Add to this the challenge of new roads being constructed every month.
Signage needs to be updated for the modern day Emirates.
Source: UAE residents say system needed to locate places in Emirates, Gulf News, 15 June 2008.
Dr. Geoff Pound
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Image: “Signage needs to be modernized for the modern day Emirates.”
