To all my fellow crusaders who took the BKE-PIE route this morning, I hope you enjoyed the drive :).
Yep, it's the start of the month long June holidays for schools in Singapore, which means less, nay, much less cars on the roads for you and I. Cars driven by filial moms and dads ferrying their precious ones to school and back will be official off the road for the next 4 weeks.
Some of my BMW friends (that's Bus, MRT and Walking for the uninitiated), are skeptical that these schoolkid carrying cars make such differences on the road.
Let's take a garden variety primary school in Singapore. Let's say there's five classes of 30 students per primary level for a total of 600 students. If we assume that 10% of these students are driven by their doting parents to work, that's 60 cars per school. Now extrapolate that to all the primary schools in Singapore.
Keep in mind we haven't even started taking into account the sec schools and JCs yet! And we've yet to factor in teachers too (who by the way, rake in some serious dough these days ok?).
I am toying with the idea of sleeping in a bit more, given that time spent on Singapore roads is reduced now (my colleague even found the time to pump petrol this morning!). But given the unpredictability of the CIQ (does anyone know what caused the 15 minute standstill at the bridge this morning?), I think I'll observe a bit more.
Have a good week ahead fellas!
Yep, it's the start of the month long June holidays for schools in Singapore, which means less, nay, much less cars on the roads for you and I. Cars driven by filial moms and dads ferrying their precious ones to school and back will be official off the road for the next 4 weeks.
Some of my BMW friends (that's Bus, MRT and Walking for the uninitiated), are skeptical that these schoolkid carrying cars make such differences on the road.
Let's take a garden variety primary school in Singapore. Let's say there's five classes of 30 students per primary level for a total of 600 students. If we assume that 10% of these students are driven by their doting parents to work, that's 60 cars per school. Now extrapolate that to all the primary schools in Singapore.
Keep in mind we haven't even started taking into account the sec schools and JCs yet! And we've yet to factor in teachers too (who by the way, rake in some serious dough these days ok?).
I am toying with the idea of sleeping in a bit more, given that time spent on Singapore roads is reduced now (my colleague even found the time to pump petrol this morning!). But given the unpredictability of the CIQ (does anyone know what caused the 15 minute standstill at the bridge this morning?), I think I'll observe a bit more.
Have a good week ahead fellas!
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