Ms Sylvia Lim (Aljunied): Thank you, Speaker. One supplementary question for the Minister of State. I wonder whether the Minister of State will agree with me that the public education efforts that the Government is undertaking could also focus a bit more on some aspects of the driving culture which I detect has a certain permissive attitude towards speed. I will just give an example.
On any given day, if you are driving on the highway in lane one at the speed limit, cars will blow their horns at you and overtake you from the left. Whereas in some other countries that I have been to, you will see other motorists, the moment you exceed the speed limit, other motorists honk at you to slow down.
So, I wonder whether TP could look into this aspect and see how society, as a whole, we can help one another to make the road safer because, after all, it is not about cameras and about TP being everywhere, but it is really about a broad-based safety culture that we all want to have.
Assoc Prof Dr Muhammad Faishal Ibrahim: Sir, I thank the Member for the supplementary question. Yes, indeed, it is something that we need to develop holistically as a society. So, we work together with the Singapore Kindness Movement, the Singapore Road Safety Council, as well as organisations around.
At the end of the day, we need to internalise this whole element within each of us that there are people around us who are also using the road; it is not only us alone. And these people or road users have families and they are going to do their activities, the more care will be applied in the way we use our devices on the road. So, this is an ongoing journey that we want to continue.
I am very heartened, like what I shared, over the years, we are seeing more and more people coming on board to support this effort. And if we look back, as I shared earlier, 10 or 15 years before till today, our roads are safer.
Ministry of Home Affair
7 May 2024
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