Anyone let your child cycle to school?
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LOLMum:
Agree. I have encountered it twice! The road was marked red to indicate it is a sch zone. Imagine the cars on the first two lane has stopped, and while crossing the third lane, that car just zapped by! I literally froze in my tracks!Sad to say, there are too many cars and impatient drivers. I walk to school with ds.. :scared: :mad: So I won't let him cycle to school.
My son knows the traffic rules, but do the drivers?
I keep repeating my encounter to remind dd & ds as they now travel home on their own. However, everytime they are late in reaching home, I start to worry.
Cycling home, err... no way cos both of them have 'no licence' to cycle (without training wheels)!
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Unfortunately some of these drivers are the parents of the school
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By right, cyclists are supposed to stop at pedestrian crossings and wheel their bikes across the road, rather than cycle across. If you can inculcate in your kid the importance of road safety and looking out for oncoming vehicles, that should be all right. However, you must teach your child not to cycle on the roads (I believe it’s against the law anyway), and be very cautious too and not get into pedestrians’ way when cycling on pavements.
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Thanks for the inputs Moms and Dads.
He doesn’t hav to cycle along the road but the path to school has 2 pedestrian crossings which is the main concern. It would be dark in early morning and he should have higher chances of knocking onto others as they should be sleepy and not notice their surroundings.
Maybe I shall cycle with him to school to observe the conditions. -
Hi, I am thinking to let my daughter cycle to schol in sec 1.
Anyone let their child cycle to school? What happen if it rains? -
kabochaneko:
Hi, I am thinking to let my daughter cycle to schol in sec 1.
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floppy:
interesting.kabochaneko:
Hi, I am thinking to let my daughter cycle to schol in sec 1.
Anyone let their child cycle to school? What happen if it rains?
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Minstral:
By right, cyclists are supposed to stop at pedestrian crossings and wheel their bikes across the road, rather than cycle across. If you can inculcate in your kid the importance of road safety and looking out for oncoming vehicles, that should be all right. However, you must teach your child not to cycle on the roads (I believe it's against the law anyway), and be very cautious too and not get into pedestrians' way when cycling on pavements.
Strongly agree. But so far it is really rare to c cyclists stop n wheel the bike. I hv oso seen many cyclists cycle in btw the hdb void deck. V dangerous esp if there is small children playing at void deck or the surrounding areas.. -
Cycling to school is very dangerous, because big vehicle like lorry, huge tall van where their vehicle got high centre of gravity, where they cannot see cyclists clearly, as cyclists are often in their blind spot.
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