Written Reply to Parliamentary Question on Outreach and Design Efforts to Encourage Keeping to Lanes by Different Users on Shared-Use Paths

Assoc Prof Jamus Jerome Lim asked the Minister for Transport 

a.     what are the current education and outreach efforts to promote adherence to usage of lanes in shared-use paths; and 

b.     whether LTA has considered painting consistent colours on cycling and pedestrian lanes islandwide to demarcate these lanes clearly.

Reply by Acting Minister for Transport Chee Hong Tat:

1.     First, the Land Transport Authority (LTA) conducts public campaigns such as the Move Happy Graciousness Campaign to educate the public on the Code of Conduct (COC) guidelines under the Active Mobility Act. Second, Active Mobility Enforcement Officers and Active Mobility Community Ambassador volunteers actively encourage path users to stay on the appropriate paths. Third, LTA reaches out to schools through its Path Safety Programme and partnered with the Singapore Kindness Movement to educate students on the COC as well.

2.     LTA has been using a distinctive red coating with cycling logos to demarcate cycling paths beside grey concrete footpaths since 2016 and will progressively upgrade the older dark grey cycling paths with the red coating for consistency. However, where there is insufficient space to segregate cycling paths and footpaths, shared paths are demarcated with red dashed borders.

3.     LTA will continue to work with other agencies that implement and maintain cycling paths in Singapore to harmonise the markings and signages such that the regulations are demarcated clearly and easily understood by the public.