PEDESTRIAN CROSSINGS (Warning to motorists)

Parliament of Singapore · 2 November 1967 · 1st Parliament

Official Report, 2 November 1967, Vol 26, Issue 5 · Open in the reader (summaries, search, filters)

S. V. LingamYaacob Bin Mohamed
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Mr S. V. Lingam asked the Minister of State (Prime Minister's Department) whether he will consider installing (a) floodlights at all pedestrian crossings; and (b) a line of studs on the approaches to each pedestrian crossing and about 100 yards short of it in order to give motorists a physical warning that they are approaching a pedestrian crossing.

Tuan Haji Yaacob Bin Mohamed: (In Malay): The Public Works Department is gradually replacing as many pedestrian crossings as possible with overhead bridges or underpasses. If, for any reason, the construction of such bridges or underpasses is not possible, the P.W.D. will provide zebra crossings with floodlights of the blinker type. Studs are expensive and tend to damage the asphalt surface of the roads, and therefore it is not intended to use them extensively for pedestrian crossings.

Mr Speaker: Mr Barker, a Ministerial Statement?

Source: Singapore Parliament Official Report (Hansard) for 2 November 1967. Republished on SGParliament.