| > Why, because people are rushing to beat the moment when charged go up during peak hour? No, because congestion charging keeps traffic flowing nicely at all times. Congestion would otherwise slow innercity traffic down to a crawl at best and a jam at worst. > Personally, I find that Singapore's prevalence of pay-per-minute car shares (because buying a car is so expensive) coupled with the inexperienced drivers who tend to use them causes a lot more risky behavior. I don't see that many shared cars on the road to make much of a difference? They certainly exist, of course. When I hear specific complaints it's often often about cab (or grab) drivers, and occasionally about bus drivers imported from PRC. --- In any case, here I'm not objecting against anyone's specific bad behaviour, but mostly that we have so many stroads; and that cars drive fast (even the legal speed limit is very life threateningly dangerous to pedestrians). See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroad I mostly like the walking experience inside of HDB complexes, with the void decks, little shops, and everything being pedestrianised and open to the general public. But the big stroads in between them are deadly. |