The crossing is there, a bit far, but so what..u choose lah..They chose the dangerous way and the writer goes around blaming the authorities?

Its a behaviuor issue..enforcement can help..but for how long? at the end of it, its still people’s choice..is the writer implying that Police is to be blamed if someone gets an accident there? Wheres the logic?

People have to have personal responsibilities and not blame others..I think the Police have done their part abeit that they can do more. I think LTA has provided the crossings, railings and you cant put barriers at the bus stop??Thats dangerous and the bus stop is too near the junction!! and the MP must surely have tried his best.Only one I cant figure out is the Town Council?But I guess they got the easiest part – just referring the email..hahaha.

Move along everyone! Happy National Day to all..

I can recall couple of individuals, and one corpn. Nishimatsu were being fingered prominently. The rest seemed safe.

When will the traffic crossing completed? It should not take that long. Hope LTA is not bundling it with the road widening. BTW, when they say 2010, it can means 4th quarter of 2010, I am serious.

The civil servants only work fast when there is some publicity on issue raising the heat. Complacent.

Please allow me to take this chance to highlight related kinds of risk conidtions waiting for disaster to happen.

I wish to bring to your attention that at EVERY major Events in Suntec and The Expo, like the PC Show among others, there is a HIGH RISK that when someone shouts BOMB! , a human stampede may result in injuries and possibly deaths (causes by heart attacks, stampede , suffocation etc) due to the overCROWDing.

Foreigners know the problem well and one of the things they get turned off about singapore is the overcrowding that they are not used to in their true 1st worlds where quality of life is much higher.

To the credit of the organizers, they have deployed some marshalls to help control the traffic in recent major event like PC show.

Sadly, that does not help address the problem of possible stampede as the crowd is still exceeding the safety limits, in my view. To crawl from point A to point B 20 meters away may take 20 minutes.

While singapore is business oriented and pro-business, the safety of the people must be considered 1st before anything else. 1 Life Too many.

I hope that after raising this alert, the authorities and most importantly the people can voice up more about such concerns as singapore is really just too tiny a dot full of shopping malls and people and new migrants, PRs and foreign workers.

If TERRORISTS want to cause some chaos in this society, may not be as difficult as you think. The thing to note is that such tragic events have not happened before in singapore.

can it handle such situations?

Based on current overcrowding situations, I fear not.

Regards
Sad_but_true.

Is it ? Fallacy of false alternative. Trying to curry favour one or two in order to exclude others. Hey internet age lah. This kind of old tricks do not work anymore. Try something new lah.

I was just about to criticise AJ for his comments.

Yr piece will have done more gd for the credibility of what you and the others are trying to achive than any amount of commentaries.

You all have yr feet firmly on the ground, not like JBJ, the Chees & Co: forever posturing.

Allow me to address some of the questions briefly.

I don’t think it matters where this issue is brought up – whether on TOC or STOMP. The more important thing, to me at least, is that people’s lives are in danger. You watch the video. It is self-evident.

I wasn’t trying to politicise the issue. This particular case at Eunos has been going on for a while. Only recently did I have the time to observe and take the video, which I feel explains better what I saw and was trying to say.

My main concern, besides the safety of the pedestrians and the motorists, is why nothing permanent was done about it – given the fact that the situation has existed for a long time.

I am glad that the LTA and the Traffic Police has replied. I am also glad that a new traffic crossing will be installed and the road widened. However, the fact that these will only be completed in 2010, as the LTA said, I am concerned about what will be done in the meantime. I have asked the LTA and the police and am awaiting their replies.

Regards,
Andrew Loh

You are right boy. However, sometimes this step has to be taken so that positive pressure will nudge the relevant party (ies) into taking the rightful necessary action.

If friendly reminders / feedbacks can do the work, all the better. Did not the author already try to do that.

After reading this article yesterday, I sent a short email to the MP at 5.17pm highlighting the imminent danger mentioned in the said article and the various encounters.

The MP replied personally at 6.12pm acknowledging this issues and that has informed the relevant departments to take immediate action.

As to some commentors who said those jaywalkers deserve it, please note that in the event of an accident, it is most likely that the driver or rider himself who will get all the troubles/problems/facing the law etc. (the jaywalker could already be no-longer around).

Another senario that could happen will be that a motorcylist while trying to prevent running down the jaywalkers by making a sudden and sharp turn, thereby being knock down by a truck travelling just next to him and killing him. So who is to blame for this? The jaywalker? The truck? The motorcyclist? or those who are now make aware of these problems, but choose to ignore?

Just like Tokyo……

Not everybody can use a bridge.
Police officers are much needed elsewhere – priority cases such as serious accidents, fights, etc
too expensive to build underground crossing with escalator.

Besides we are aduuts and we know are all expected to use the crossing for our own safety. so cannot shift the blame to others.

I am sure motorists will slow down at these junction to allow people to cross. We can all learn to be gracious and tolerant.

Pushing the blame and unkind remarks, etc are usually the easiest things to do.

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Having TP stationed there more often is simply a waste of govt resources. If it is truly an accident-prone area, then a more permanent solution such as a bridge, underpass, or zebra crossing is preferable.

I am not too familiar with the traffic rules, but I think that in Singapore that the person who knocks these people down will be liable for their accident. If that is true then it is indeed an accident waiting to happen.

I frequent this area and sometimes get confused if I am actually driving through Geylang or Little India.

There is no “accident” here. It is simply a choice made and the consequences to be lived with, if so applicable. To expect the authorities to be involved (yet again) in even the mediocre aspects of citizens’ lives gives our citizens far too little credit.

Traffic police only have time to escort Mugabe of Zimbabweto to hospital from airport. TPs also have time to escort SM to airport at 70km/h on the first lane kicking other cars out. TP have time for resident of EUNOS? NO they dont.

LTA no time to build bridge, but alot of time to erect ERP gantries. No time to review road safety for pedestrians coz they dont pay ERP!!! Less $$$$ priority. Time is Money they are practical.

Eunos MP has no time, he has to work balance his directorship at various companies and as long as no one died, he is fine…counting $$$$.

Police has no time, since they are the busiest of them all. 236 : 100000 residents. WKS still need them to catch MSK. Police no time to do report, they busy catching thieves and illegals. Very sad.

Singaporeans no time. They cross illegally as if they are insured of millions. They find time more expensive than their life.

The gahmen has no time. They are busy with making $$$$ and bad investments and busy with increasing ministers pay and bad policies. They have no time.

Who have time? No one.