Painted crossing lines magically reappeared overnight at a particularly perilous intersection of highway drivers and pedestrians after complaints went viral overnight.
City workers repainted the faded pedestrian markings at the long no-man’s land under the Sukhumvit Expressway, where pedestrians must avoid drivers racing on and off the highway, a photo circulated showing them all but gone.
The lines could hardly be seen in Thursday morning’s post by Punnaporn Hemrachatanant, which was shared thousands of times and recounted how she was turned away by unhelpful police there.
“I gathered up the courage to knock on the door of the traffic booth at the [Sukhumvit] Expressway,” Punnaporn wrote. “I told the police, ‘There used to be a zebra crossing here which has faded, what should I do?’”
What she got was, in her words, the “saddest response…
