Step up evening patrols to nab speeding electric-bike users
Letter-writer Tan Chi Wei wants the authorities to step up patrols in the evenings to nab errant users of personal mobility devices.
In June last year, a 20-year-old rider crashed his electric bicycle into a 37-year-old jogger at Marina Bay Sands.
The accident left the victim with brain injury.
Too often, I have witnessed errant riders of personal mobility devices, including electric bicycles, speeding on the footpaths in Yishun where I live. Music would blare from portable speakers attached to their devices.
Many of these instances take place after 8pm and into the wee hours of the morning.
I have noticed officers from the Land Transport Authority (LTA) stopping riders as early as 7am, but I have never seen them on patrol after office hours.
I wonder how effective the LTA has been in dealing with errant riders who speed on footpaths.
It should step up patrols in the evenings.
