I refer to last Sunday's letter, "Have right of way? Think 'give way'", by Mr David Wang.
I cannot agree more with him that motorists must give way to pedestrians at pedestrian crossings, but I have to differ on the view that drivers should also give way to cyclists at such crossings.
I have been driving for more than 35 years. For the past few years, I have come across more and more cyclists zooming across zebra crossings, oblivious to the fast-moving traffic.
The trouble is that the motorists may not be able to stop in time for them, as the cyclists often appear suddenly.
I have encountered three such incidents involving reckless cyclists in the last few months ? all three riders appeared to be from China.
As more foreigners come to Singapore to live and work, this kind of road behaviour will become a serious problem.
As many of these foreigners may not understand English, there should be campaigns and public-education programmes in Chinese to tell these cyclists to stop at pedestrian crossings, and push their bicycles across.
