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[Liveable cities]Half the width of all roads should be reserved for bicycle use.

Personal mobilitydevices (PMD) which costs 0.4¢ per km run, bicycles and Metro are the way to go in liveable cities across the world.

Double the price of taxi fares, double the price of COE and ERP, petrol tax, parking fees and road tax.
CONVERT HALF OF ALL ROADS into PUBLIC TRANSPORT use roads. Only public bus, PMD, emergency police, fire, ambulance are allowed to use the Public Transport only use roads 24/7. (PMD are considered public transportation because it is accessible to everyone e.g. Mobile, cheap 2nd hand bike purchased on carousell etc) All public service vehicles must be festooned with cameras so that in case of any accident, the public servant at the wheel will be taken to task if found wanting.

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Since the public service vehicle lanes will be painted like today's full day bus lanes but likely twice the size, cyclist and other fitness conscious people will be able to cycle at night (when commuter cycling traffic is scant and buses are off service) and have half the road to themselves to cycle around Singapore for exercise (this DOES NOT INCLUDE EXPRESSWAYS OF COURSE). In fact, baring limitations like the need to stop at traffic lights, even fitness enthusiast cyclists across the world will come to Singapore to do safe night cycling and inbibe in the fitness lifestyle because half of all roads, by policy, would be almost 100% for PMD use. Health and fitness businesses (and 24/7 food outlets) will sprout all over Singapore like mushrooms and hospitals will again have empty beds because healthy and fit people do not need hospital stays, even in later life.
All motorised public service vehicles which use the public service vehicle lanes shall have their sirens and emergency light beacons on to warn PMDs and other users on the public service vehicle lanes to give way.

This way, people can commute 24/7 at low costs (0.4¢ per km run), door to door without harassing the gahmen to provide more bus and train services at exorbitant costs. Police, fire, anti-terror will be able to arrive at any incident/ crime scene without having to get caught up in traffic jams and instead run on foot to the scene like in the little India riot incident. People will be friendlier because the use of PMDs will allow more social interaction and also more environmentally friendly for the obvious reasons. Best of all, people will be fitter because PMD use entails some balance and exercise too. Singapore's carbon footprint will be much lower and Singapore might even be (almost) independent of energy (petrol) price fluctuations too.


cherry6(HWZ) wrote:Thursday, 20 October 2011
How the Dutch got their cycling infrastructure
How did the Dutch get their cycling infrastructure? This question keeps coming back because it is of course relevant to people who want what the Dutch have.

Road building traditions go back a long way and they are influenced by many factors. But the way Dutch streets and roads are built today is largely the result of deliberate political decisions in the 1970s to turn away from the car centric policies of the prosperous post war era. Changed ideas about mobility, safer and more livable cities and about the environment led to a new type of streets in the Netherlands.
The recent video to introduce the Dutch Cycling Embassy explains this very briefly, but there is a lot more that can be said about it. That is why I made a longer video for a more in depth look into the history of cycling infrastructure in the Netherlands.
http://www.aviewfromthecyclepath.com/2011/10/how-dutch-got-their-cycling.html?m=1

https://youtu.be/XuBdf9jYj7o
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