After a month of Sundays exploring various Park Connector Network (PCN) and cycling paths, the conclusion is this: cyclists can avoid the traffic if they plan to cycle from places such as Jurong, West Coast, Bukit Batok, Clementi, Punggol, Sengkang, Hougang, Ang Mo Kio, Toa Payoh, Bishan and Kallang to the CBD. The operative word is “plan”. The best way to plan these routes is to try them out, as I did, on the weekends.
Sometime during the middle of the two- year pandemic — around 4Q 2020 — cyclists on foldable bicycles (foldies) could be seen cycling along pavements, side roads, main roads and Mount Faber.
With the plethora of cyclists, why are there so few cycling to work? The perennial reasons are the heavy traffic and Singapore’s hot and humid weather. Increasingly, traffic needs no longer be an excuse, and with increasing end-of-trip facilities, heat and humidity isn’t an excuse either.
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