Installing Additional Road Safety Features

Mr Leon Perera asked the Minister for Transport (a) what are the criteria used to determine whether additional road safety tools, such as speed bumps, regulating road strips or raised zebra crossings, should be implemented; (b) what are the initiatives taken by the Ministry to promote traffic safety in private estates; and (c) what mechanism is used to regularly measure whether those initiatives have been effective.

The Land Transport Authority (LTA) implements additional road safety measures at locations with high accident risk or where motorists tend to speed. We compare accident rates and vehicular speeds before and after implementation of the measures to assess their effectiveness.

LTA and Traffic Police work together with the community to promote road safety in both private and public estates. For example, LTA recently implemented advance "STOP" markings at Gerald Estate, along Yio Chu Kang Road, after receiving feedback from the community about motorists not stopping at stop lines.