Monday, March 31, 2008

Bike Ride 3 - Dangerous crossings !!

We had to make TWO Very Dangerous Crossings! These were Upper Changi Road and New Upper Changi Road.

There were neither subway nor overhead bridge crossings.

Worse! there was no designated crossing facility (viz a 'zebra' crossing)at BOTH roads.

Lagi worse! there were no breaks in the centre dividers. As a result, we could not easily wheel our bikes across the roads. We had to LIFT the bikes up and over the centre dividers. It was very dangerous and we ran the risk of being knocked down by vehicles.



Then, there were dangerous cut ends of metal pipes sticking far out from the bollards at the ends of the park connectors. They were very sharp and a brush against one drew blood from an unfortunate member of our group.

Click to enlarge photo and you'll see EngSeong looking back at Freddie who was injured thus.




Click to enlarge photo and you can see Freddie checking the injury inflicted by one of those sharp cut metal pipe ends.



And, the compacted soil at the centre divider is definitely not good for the trees.



Poor Freddie injured at the dangerous road crossing at New Upper Changi Road.

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