Complaints about noisy m-bike group not addressed

Clivebenss SG

I LIVE in Gangsa Road, Bukit Panjang. For the last three months, noise from motorcycles racing between midnight and 3am has kept my family, including two schoolgoing children, awake.

The group of about four to five men gather around midnight, occasionally on weekdays and regularly on weekends, to chat and take turns to joyride in front of Fajar Secondary School.

I have called the police, left a message with the Traffic Police and written to the Land Transport Authority (LTA). Only the LTA called to say that it will check on the matter, but it will take action only if illegal motorcycle modifications are involved.

Oliver Lim

Darkness_hacker99 SG

Please quote

MISCELLANEOUS OFFENCES (PUBLIC ORDER AND NUISANCE) ACT (CHAPTER 184)

Excessive noise
14. —(1) Any person who makes any noise by any instrument or other means in such a manner as to cause or be likely to cause annoyance or inconvenience to the occupier of any premises in the vicinity or to any person lawfully using any public road or in any public place shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $1,000.

(2) Any police officer, on any complaint that any person in any premises or in any public place is making such noise as to cause annoyance or inconvenience to the complainant, may enter upon the premises or proceed to the public place and, after warning the person reasonably suspected of making the noise, stop the making of such noise whether by the removal of any instrument or object or in some other appropriate manner.