Further Efforts to Promote Safe Riding amongst Motorcyclists

As part of continuing efforts to remind motorcyclists to practise safe riding, Traffic Police will be installing banners with road safety messages at car park exits or boom gates of electronic parking gantries. Such efforts will focus on areas with a high density of motorcycles.

Traffic Police will be tapping on the research expertise under the ambit of the Singapore Road Safety Council to do a study on how motorcyclists’ attire affect their visibility on the roads. The results of the study will enable Traffic Police to explore other avenues to enhance the safety of motorcyclists and mitigate their risks whilst they are on the roads. In addition, Traffic Police will also be working with the driving schools to explore ideas on how to better equip motorcyclists with safe driving skills.

Enhancing Road Safety Awareness among Elderly

To further enhance road safety awareness among the elderly, the Annual Shell Traffic Games this year will be tweaked to incorporate a new traffic role-play game to include this vulnerable group. In this game, the elderly will play the role of pedestrians, while school children will take on either the role of fellow pedestrians or assume the role of motorists. The objective of the game is to reinforce the road safety habits in both the young and old in a fun way.

On the education front, Traffic Police has been working closely with strategic partners such as the Land Transport Authority (LTA), Shell, SOXAL and the entertainment outlets as well as the community to promote road safety awareness and influence road user behaviour through various public education outreach programmes. About 1,000 talks, exhibitions and outreach sessions were conducted last year, and such talks will continue to be conducted in 2010. Traffic Police is also exploring the introduction of a Road Safety Bus that will serve as a mobile exhibition platform to better reach out to all road users.

Annual campaigns such as the Road Safety Outreach, Road Courtesy Campaign, Annual Shell Traffic Games and the Anti Drink Driving (ADD) campaign will continue to be platforms to reinforce the importance of road safety to all road users. TP will also continue to conduct both general and targeted programmes for road users in 2010.