Motor vehicles travel too Fast on SG Roads

[Soya]

1. Bath, change to work clothes, wear shoe - already starting to perspire by the time i step out of the house. if i have to pedal to work, i bet i will need shower facilities and a new set of clothes at the office. i would like to take a 30-min walk (max 2.5km distance only) with her along the roads at 8am in our office attire and laptop bag and then another 30-min walk at 6.30pm.

 

2. current typical bus journey to work, say 45 min at 50km/hr. lower speed limit to 30km/hr will mean the journey will take at least 80 min which means we spend 1.5 hours less at home. Leave office at 7.30pm and get home at 9pm. i wonder if I should have dinner at the office or at home with the family. Hmmm......

I tink this expert is referring to a walk in the English garden to get some tea and scones. Cheerio guv.

[Khng8]

I hope we are not paying for her trip here & also for her valuable advice. Seriously ...?

[Hamburger]

if erp goes up because of reduced speed, we know now who to point finger at.

 

Chow ang mo talk nonsense.

[Jamesc]

Please send this expert to Jakarta or Mumbai.

 

The jams there are even worse then here.

 

She is needed there.

 

[Coern]

find a new job ba... every day leave at 7.30 pm is not sustainable one.

 

actually if you check your car, the average speed of the overall commute is probably in the 25 to 35 kmh range.

 

1. Bath, change to work clothes, wear shoe - already starting to perspire by the time i step out of the house. if i have to pedal to work, i bet i will need shower facilities and a new set of clothes at the office. i would like to take a 30-min walk (max 2.5km distance only) with her along the roads at 8am in our office attire and laptop bag and then another 30-min walk at 6.30pm.

 

2. current typical bus journey to work, say 45 min at 50km/hr. lower speed limit to 30km/hr will mean the journey will take at least 80 min which means we spend 1.5 hours less at home. Leave office at 7.30pm and get home at 9pm. i wonder if I should have dinner at the office or at home with the family. Hmmm......

 

[Knoobie]

After 4 pages / 68 posts, why no one mention abolishing ERP and COE? Like that can easily hit 30Km/h mark without the need to make our road narrower, reduce paring space, etc. etc.     

 

i thought ERP is for roads that are congested (i.e. 30kph or lower). So her suggestion would effectively mean that every road collect ERP instead!

[Ixus75]

My Ang Moh friend said this expert doesn't know the different between mph and kph. 

 

In general,

their main road is 40mph/64.4kph

Inner town centre and small street is 30mph/48.3kph

Outside school is 20mph/32.3kph

Expressway is 60mph/96.6kph

Montorways is 70mph

[Kxbc]

find a new job ba... every day leave at 7.30 pm is not sustainable one.

 

actually if you check your car, the average speed of the overall commute is probably in the 25 to 35 kmh range.

haha, thanks for the concern.

 

for the first 18 years of my working life, leave at 7.30pm is the norm. 6 plus is blessed and scarce. so having road limits reduced to 30km/hr will just extend traveling time for everyone.

[Sdf4786k]

After 4 pages / 68 posts, why no one mention abolishing ERP and COE? Like that can easily hit 30Km/h mark without the need to make our road narrower, reduce paring space, etc. etc.     

 

yeah.. like Thailand and Philipines

[Leo72]

My Ang Moh friend said this expert doesn't know the different between mph and kph. 

 

In general,

their main road is 40mph/64.4kph

Inner town centre and small street is 30mph/48.3kph

Outside school is 20mph/32.3kph

Expressway is 60mph/96.6kph

Montorways is 70mph

London City has speed limit of 20mph or 30km/h for town and small street which begin somewhere in late 2018.

Edited April 16, 2019 by Leo72

[1fast1]

My Ang Moh friend said this expert doesn't know the different between mph and kph.

 

In general,

their main road is 40mph/64.4kph

Inner town centre and small street is 30mph/48.3kph

Outside school is 20mph/32.3kph

Expressway is 60mph/96.6kph

Montorways is 70mph

And not to generalise (because there are many brilliant female drivers), but lots of women are not very good at "sensing" speed. So she genuinely may not be able to tell the difference between mph and kph.

 

Ignorance is fine as long as you keep it to yourself. It's when you try to inflict yours on others that problems arise.

[Volvobrick]

My Ang Moh friend said this expert doesn't know the different between mph and kph.

 

In general,

their main road is 40mph/64.4kph

Inner town centre and small street is 30mph/48.3kph

Outside school is 20mph/32.3kph

Expressway is 60mph/96.6kph

Montorways is 70mph

Wahlau! Sexpert can't tell the difference between cm and inches?

[1fast1]

Wahlau! Sexpert can't tell the difference between cm and inches?

I bet many have gone in depth with her on the ins and outs of these metric matters.

 

So not sure if there's any point in going into it again with her. All we'll be doing is plumbing the depths of her ignorance. Personally there are other loopholes I'd prefer to penetrate.

[Sdf4786k]

London City has speed limit of 20mph or 30km/h for town and small street which begin somewhere in late 2018.

 

ok.. now that it has clear up its good.

 

For a while there it was like comparing 50 ringette vs 50 USD. 

 

One thing for sure, that is painfully obvious for that woman,

 

there has been no progress for medical science to cure stupidity.

[1fast1]

London City has speed limit of 20mph or 30km/h for town and small street which begin somewhere in late 2018.

 

Sure.

 

They also have:

 

- cheaper cars lasting indefinitely

- a more liberal car culture, allowing kit cars

- a large number of racing tracks to choose from, without having to cross national borders (one - Brands Hatch - is just 30km away from the heart of London)

- a much more polite road culture (people are generally not pricks on the road)

- (and if I really didn't feel like driving) better penetration of the tube network

 

If they had all those in Singapore, I would also be much happier with this place, motoring and commuting-wise.

 

One takes the good with the bad.

Edited April 17, 2019 by Turboflat4

[Vinceng]

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i can hear @turboflat4 fuming aldy...hahahaha

 

 

kong jiao wei

 

I think the British Foreign Talent was referring to 30mp/h, which is 48km/h.

[RadX]

I think the British Foreign Talent was referring to 30mp/h, which is 48km/h.

 

read what the article reported

 

 

otor vehicles travel too fast on the streets of Singapore, said a British expert as she called for speed limits on all non-expressways to be slowed to 30kmh.

 

A 10kmh reduction makes "the difference between life and death", public health specialist Lucy Saunders, 39, told The Straits Times.

 

[Beanoyip]

30km/h, some cyclist can easily ride over this speed..