The government has officially confirmed the ban on e-scooters from public footpaths. We have reached the outcome we set out to achieve and I will keep monitoring the enforcement phase to ensure these new regulations are applied strictly.
July 10, 2018
Final supporters
It is time to ban E-Scooter. These are dangerous today and will be even more dangerous in the years to come when technology improves.
Most of the riders today are quite irresponsible and lately the 70 kph demonstrated the point. They do not have any insurance. They do not know the highway code of being on the road meant for licensed users.
I have seen, and can safely say many others too, that these E-Scooterists would utilize both pedestrians walk path and road meant for vehicles, whenever they feel it was convenient. They are nuisance and worse a danger to park users. As a motorist I really do not know what to expect of them in terms of road practices.
As it is, LTA is short of manpower to police irresponsible cyclists who had caused so many accidents to pedestrians.
Let us not be politically correct about this. Let us nip this problem at the bud before it really gets out of hand.
Updates
Reached 1,000 supporters
May 21, 2018
April 15, 2017
The reach of this petition has shifted its status to a matter of public record. I have finalized a formal letter to the Land Transport Authority detailing the specific safety hazards outlined here. Representatives from a local news outlet have reached out to discuss the documentation supporting our case.
October 23, 2016
The petition has reached one hundred signatures. I am now compiling these concerns into a formal brief to be submitted to the Land Transport Authority. The goal is to secure a meeting with their policy team to discuss stricter enforcement gaps.
Reached 100 supporters
October 22, 2016
883 Comments
Me and my young children have almost been victims of reckless speeding PMDs countless times while just walking on pavements or crossing roads. I do not want to wait till anything bad happens and hope to stop any preventable accidents to anyone.
Fully supported.. my mum is 70 years old, she like to walk to nearby mall multiple times daily to meet up friends. I constantly worried for her safety as I have witnessed many times irresponsible speeding e scooter when walking with her to the mall.
It was too dangerous seeing e-scooters vrooming around the footpath and share path with pedestrians since the riders just don’t care attitudes. At night their extremely bright shinning on pedestrians eyes and posting dangerous for pedestrians to react.
Govt should act fast before more accidents happen. Users are just too inconsiderate and immature to use the device responsibly. I have seen umpteen times users sped across roads, zebra crossing, walkway, pathways without any proper lookout for pedestrians.
With e-scooters on pedestrian paths, the pedestrian paths are no longer safe for pedestrians. When e-scooters are on the roads, they are hazardous for the cars. Please ban e-scooters in Singapore and keep the pedestrian path safe for the children and elderly.
They are so unsafe, they should be banned. You cannot see them coming.
Now that they are banned from foot path but its not enough. PMD are still everywhere, foot path, shared path and not slowing down at all. These devices accelerate and move too fast and should not be sharing any path with pedestrian.
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The government has officially confirmed the ban on e-scooters from public footpaths. We have reached the outcome we set out to achieve and I will keep monitoring the enforcement phase to ensure these new regulations are applied strictly.
July 10, 2018
Final supporters
It is time to ban E-Scooter. These are dangerous today and will be even more dangerous in the years to come when technology improves.
Most of the riders today are quite irresponsible and lately the 70 kph demonstrated the point. They do not have any insurance. They do not know the highway code of being on the road meant for licensed users.
I have seen, and can safely say many others too, that these E-Scooterists would utilize both pedestrians walk path and road meant for vehicles, whenever they feel it was convenient. They are nuisance and worse a danger to park users. As a motorist I really do not know what to expect of them in terms of road practices.
As it is, LTA is short of manpower to police irresponsible cyclists who had caused so many accidents to pedestrians.
Let us not be politically correct about this. Let us nip this problem at the bud before it really gets out of hand.
Updates
Reached 1,000 supporters
May 21, 2018
April 15, 2017
The reach of this petition has shifted its status to a matter of public record. I have finalized a formal letter to the Land Transport Authority detailing the specific safety hazards outlined here. Representatives from a local news outlet have reached out to discuss the documentation supporting our case.
October 23, 2016
The petition has reached one hundred signatures. I am now compiling these concerns into a formal brief to be submitted to the Land Transport Authority. The goal is to secure a meeting with their policy team to discuss stricter enforcement gaps.
Reached 100 supporters
October 22, 2016
883 Comments
I don’t deny the benefits of e-scooter, it’s a mean of transport for some people and they earn money with it. But if e-scooter users are going to take advantage of that, misuse and even kill innocent people with it, then we would have to review its usage.
Me and my young children have almost been victims of reckless speeding PMDs countless times while just walking on pavements or crossing roads. I do not want to wait till anything bad happens and hope to stop any preventable accidents to anyone.
Fully supported.. my mum is 70 years old, she like to walk to nearby mall multiple times daily to meet up friends. I constantly worried for her safety as I have witnessed many times irresponsible speeding e scooter when walking with her to the mall.
It was too dangerous seeing e-scooters vrooming around the footpath and share path with pedestrians since the riders just don’t care attitudes. At night their extremely bright shinning on pedestrians eyes and posting dangerous for pedestrians to react.
Govt should act fast before more accidents happen. Users are just too inconsiderate and immature to use the device responsibly. I have seen umpteen times users sped across roads, zebra crossing, walkway, pathways without any proper lookout for pedestrians.
With e-scooters on pedestrian paths, the pedestrian paths are no longer safe for pedestrians. When e-scooters are on the roads, they are hazardous for the cars. Please ban e-scooters in Singapore and keep the pedestrian path safe for the children and elderly.
They are so unsafe, they should be banned. You cannot see them coming.
Now that they are banned from foot path but its not enough. PMD are still everywhere, foot path, shared path and not slowing down at all. These devices accelerate and move too fast and should not be sharing any path with pedestrian.
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I don’t deny the benefits of e-scooter, it’s a mean of transport for some people and they earn money with it. But if e-scooter users are going to take advantage of that, misuse and even kill innocent people with it, then we would have to review its usage.