Ray Saintonge wrote:
Walter van Kalken wrote:
Dear Jimbo:
I challenge you to find me a reference/citation for:
''When walking on the major street towards increasing soi numbers, all the even-numbered sois are on the right side and the odd-numbered ones on the left side of the street. If for instance a new soi is added between soi 7 and soi 9 it will get the number soi 7/1, the next one soi 7/2 etc. It is also possible that soi 20 is far away from soi 21 if there are more sois on one side of the street than on the other.''
From the article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soi
Not everything can be referenced, or a reference is almost impossible to provide. But what stands there is the truth, so should we delete this just because it is unreferenced?
In theory, there is probably a reference and legal basis for this kind of thing in Bangkok city hall, but unless we are challenging the way that the Bangkok city fathers are numbering streets it would be an incredible waste of time to track it down. I am willing, on a provisional basis, to accept the observations of someone who has lived in that city. If I doubted the facts I could always go to Bangkok to verify the facts by walking the streets. The information is right there for everybody to see.
Thank you EC that is exactly how I feel about this and these kind of things. Unfortunately the tendency seems to be to rigouresly edit out these kind of unverified statements. At least that is the impression I get from statements like the one Jimbo made.
Waerth