...12yo girl kena hit by a bicycle infront of waterway point....still in ICU now....

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Which is understandable, to which i would say, go for the offending party. There's no need to ban the device for the rest of the law abiding population.

If today a car get into a accident and killed someone, should Singapore start baying for ban of cars and just let commercial/ER veh use the road? I am sure the logical answer is no. The law even allow time to pass before the offending party can take license again, depending on verdict.

Banning a device just hamper the rest of the population who can/have an actual use for devices. It also lower our innate social tolerance for anything else. If we are talking about actual harmful devices like vapes/kpod, sure go ahead and ban it for the logic is, it should have never appeared here in the 1st place.

But mobility devices is not under such an umbrella or tag. Nor should they be.

Mobility devices are meant to help people walk, who have difficulty in walking. They are not meant to help people charge like a bull.

Mechanical wheelchairs don't give other path users a fright of their life. In fact, they travel at an even slower speed than walking mainly because it is hard to spin the wheel with two arms, and I can imagine, tiring as well, so how long can one spin? For long distances?

Then came e-wheelchairs which from what I observed are not very popular. They can travel faster than a mechanical wheelchair, but those users I saw did not use it irresponsibly by which I mean, speed with it.

PMA came later, those huge bulky path monsters. Many a time, I saw bags of various colours hung in front, behind, and a concealed loudspeaker, that's not meant to be seen but heard, blasting 甜蜜蜜 or some songs of the 1970s. No need to ask for IC to verify his age. It's a boomer! And he's travelling at a speed which even a runner would find challenging to keep up with.

Moral of the rant?

Unlike roads, there is no Pathway Code, what they can do, what they cannot do, give way to the right, stop when the red light is on....and there are no path insurance. If you are injured by a PMA and become paralysed from waist down, good luck to you. The PMA rider may not have money to pay you, and he is not required by law to buy path insurance.

Therefore, when accidents happen, as they did, pedestrians kpkb. If there is no Pathway Code, no path insurance, nothing, then, ban them, they say.

What has PAP done? They made a path for cyclists/PMAers, coloured it red but many pedestrians, in fact, MOST of them, walk on these paths. If they get hit by a PMA, I can only say, serves them right lorh.

I agree with you that we should not ban PMAs or bicycles on cycling paths any more than we should ban cars on roads. But since there are fines and disqualification for errant motorists, we should also have the same things for path users - both cycling path and footpath. Whoever is on the wrong path, fine $200.