While driving very often i had to break suddenly to avoid
cyclists who swerve in front of me to avoid hitting some
pedestrians standing at the road side. It seems these cylists never
know they need to slow down, watch behind, give signal before they
change lane, as a courtesy and respect to other road users.
They also never realise that they are sharing the lane with other
motorists and they also need to observe traffic rules, and I think
so far no cyclist has ever been booked for traffic offence.
What is worse they never seem to realise that when they hit a car
or a car hit them, it is their body against metal, .... or they
assume that cars should always give way to them, but they never pay
road tax.
So we should make all bicycles fitted with rear mirror, and left
right signal, cyclists should all take some kind of highway code,
wear the proper protective gear (you see only the angmoh in
Singapore wear protective gear when cycle, the local don't), and
pay road tax.
I think cyclists should treasure the freedom we have now, observe
traffic rule, show courtesy and respect to other road users, have
some self awareness about how frigile we are on a bicycle, and
enjoy the fun of cycling.
Asking government to implement any rules would just give some anti
government people here reasons to whine at the government
again.
