Smoky vehicles: NEA to review penalties

[Darthrevan]

The National Environment Agency (NEA) will be reviewing the penalty regime against vehicles which emit excessive smoke, according to Minister for the Environment and Water Resources Vivian Balakrishnan.

 

The NEA will also harness new technology such as remote sensing technology to enhance enforcement against such vehicles, he added in a written reply yesterday to Nee Soon GRC Member of Parliament Lee Bee Wah, who had asked about the ministry's efforts to control vehicles from across the Causeway which emit excessive smoke.

 

Smoky vehicles entering Singapore will be stopped for a smoke emission test, explained Dr Balakrishnan.

 

A composition fine ranging from S$70 to S$500 will be issued to the driver of a vehicle that fails the test.

 

Diesel vehicles that emit smoke exceeding 70 Hartridge Smoke Units, a measurement of smoke opacity, will be turned back.

 

The NEA also conducts regular enforcement on Singapore roads, and drivers of buses that fail the smoke emission test for the first time will be issued with a composition fine of S$150.

 

In the last two years, a total of 7,950 foreign-registered vehicles, including 2,339 motorcycles, were booked for excessive smoke emission.

 

Source: http://www.todayonline.com/Singapore/EDC12...eview-penalties

[Unidentified]

they should also nab those bas gilalang as well.

drive like daredevil and cut in at the last minute.

 

[TheRationalVoice]

Long overdue.

 

When I was a young student in the uk in the early 90s, one thing that caught my attention was the incredibly low level of toxic emmissions from vehicles. I could wait at the bus stand without the need to cover my nose.

 

Singapore is still a long way off in achieving something anywhere near the european standards.

Edited May 15, 2012 by TheRationalVoice

[Celicar]

Fully fully support. It is about time. I've lost count of the number of vans, pick-ups, buses and trucks that bellow out black smoke because they just don't give a d@mn.