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Whui-Mei Yeo's avatar

It's the collective point of view as a society that kills all of us - how we see cycling as an inferior mode of transport, e.g. because long long long time ago, only poor people from China/<insert developing world country name> cycle as a mode of transport.

Humans are social group animals and Singaporeans have been institutionalised to obey rules and norms, so many of us conform to the prevalent view. Also, our government keeps "rescuing" all of us by solving problems quietly, leading to many Singaporeans to think "Aiyah, the government will solve this if important. Why bother to advocate change?"

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Mark's avatar

Hi, being a cyclist who cycled on the roads. I have many close calls to being flatten by cars. In Singapore some drivers don't keep a distance from cyclist and we don't have cycling lanes on the road. Maybe our roads are too expensive to have cycling lanes. There are park connectors but limited to some parts of the island.

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