Originally posted by Atobe:
What about the Singapore Citizens ?
We are treated like Second Class Citizens in our own home - with
road speed set at a ridiculous 70kmh for normal roads, 80 to 90kmh
on 3 lane roads or expressways - when the high efficiency cars can
do higher speed safely so as to achieve better fuel economy.
[b] 2nd class citizens? hmmm...i
certainly don't feel it this way as compared to Australia or some
other nations which i have been to. in fact who is stopping you
from driving faster? or perhaps its because you don't wish to fork
out the money for speeding tickets? or afraid of losing your
license? what is it? you do not know what is a REAL 2nd class
citizen is...
Road speeds are not ADVISORY warnings of caution
but are STRICTLY ENFORCED leaving Singapore Drivers without any
flexibility to adjust to real time traffic conditions.
Driving along the PIE or ECP at 02.00a.m. - where no cars are
sighted for long stretches, one still have to adhere to the 90kmh
speed.
Have you ever tried driving along Bukit Timah Road, or Upper
Thomson Road, or AMK Avenue 1, or AMK-Hougang Ave 3, or Farrer-Adam
Road, or Braddell-Bartley Roads at off-peak hours in the day or in
the middle of the night, when the roads are desserted or traffic
very light ?
Under such road conditions, can one resist to drive an extra 10 to
20 kmh above the set limits of 70kmh that is blanket speed on all
secondary roads ?
These are the areas where our traffic cops will ingeniously hide
behind bushes, or seated on pedestrian overhead bridges - at odd
hours of the day and night - armed with the latest midget size
laser camera speed detector, to nab the Singaporean drivers trying
to get home quickly after a long day.
nobody is stopping you
from getting home quickly and SAFELY. perhaps you have not
witnessed irresponsible drivers speeding and zig-zagging roads just
to get home FASTER but resulted in a fatal accident? yeah, he
managed to get 'home' faster indeed.
Most Singapore drivers lack initiative or imagination when
encountered with a situation where the system breaks down.
In most other 'Third World' cities around this region, whenever
traffic lights breaks down, the drivers will exercise initiative
and imagination to overcome the situation; and will allow each side
to have the right of way. It will be seldom that any TRAFFIC JAM
will occur, and with minor accidents occurring at the most remote
possibility.
Can the same happen in Singapore ? Hardly. The Singaporean Driver
is accustomed to move on green, stop at red; and when the system
breaks down ? Unfortunately, time and again, under the same
circumstances, it is common to see the Singaporean drivers become
confused, scared, and sweat as they attempt to get over the major
road crossing.
Singaporeans have become so accustomed to Orderly and Organised way
of Life, that they will be lost whenever the System breaks
down.
Is this not the sad state of affairs with the Singaporean attitude
towards POLITICS - the fear of change leading to a system breakdown
?
The fear to cross that major road crossing when the lights are out
?
are you speaking of
yourself? and how often have you encountered msian's road traffic
conditions? have you been stuck in a HW jam before in msia? and
where there's a failure in the traffic lights do you know how
chaotic it is too in msia (KL)?
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quit complaining so much and life's maybe a lil' easier for you.
please do not go off topic again. thank you. 
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