Feb 17, 2007
SBS traffic inspectors get a taste of their own medicine
By T. Rajan
A MOTORIST got back at SBS Transit's traffic inspectors who
photographed his car parked in a bus lane.
Shortly after they took the photo, he spotted the two inspectors
having breakfast, with their motorcycles parked illegally along
double yellow lines. Whipping out his camera-phone, he filmed the
motorcycles, confronted the two men and then put up the sequence on
popular video-sharing website YouTube.
Now the clip is making its rounds on the Internet via blogs here,
and the two men are in trouble with their employer.
The video-clip does not identify the motorist, but he is heard
asking the two inspectors why they parked illegally.
He also asks them why they had photographed his car, instead of
simply asking his wife, who had been seated inside, to move
it.
The inspectors tell him in the clip that they were just doing their
job.
The licence-plate numbers of the motorcycles are clearly visible in
the nearly two-minute-long clip.
Yesterday, a spokesman for SBS Transit confirmed that the
inspectors were its staff and added that the company expected
better behaviour.
'We are dismayed to learn of this incident,' she told The Straits
Times. 'The two mobile traffic inspectors filmed in the clip will
be disciplined.'
The company will also remind all its inspectors not to break the
law, especially because they are supposed to help enforce it.
The main duties of the 12-strong team include responding to bus
accidents and breakdowns, as well as nabbing motorists who stray
into the bus lanes.
The inspectors cannot issue traffic summonses or fines.
They forward photographs of errant motorists to the Land Transport
Authority to decide if action should be taken.
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