Letters on: Minibuses, Traffic Laws, and Youthful Sirens
- The minibus culture contributes to educational decline
- Young girls under siege
- Vulgar music continues unchecked on minibuses
- Not all these young maidens are innocent
- Our decline predated the minibus culture
- Men should know better
- Youthful sirens on the minibuses
- Better registration of minibus owners and drivers is needed
- The letter was about vulgar lyrics and noise nuisance
- Mini-bus conductors dress unacceptably
- Do our drivers know the rules of the road?
- A 14-year-old should know better
- These school girls seem to be unsupervised
- We must all be involved in campaigning for safety on the roads
- So many killings and road accidents
- Suggestions to improve traffic situation
- A Hire Purchase Act is long overdue
- Sterner measures needed against sexual abuses of children
- Not impressed with dirty dancing
- Seatbelt law should be reinforced
- Traffic law-breakers must feel the full force
- Seat belts may have saved these lives
- Road tragedy is everyone's concern
- Offenders have to be severely punished
- More anti-speeding groups needed
- Vital part of our future ripped away
- We must all speak out against dangerous driving
- These sentences are unacceptable
- Causing death charge pending for four years
- These drivers should have been charged with manslaughter
- Magistrate Yaw's sentencing policies have raised eyebrows before
- New wine in old wineskin
- Minibuses must be gradually hauled off our roads
- Traffic police place too much emphasis on parallel parking in driving tests
- Many traffic laws continue to be broken with impunity
- Excessively lenient sentences lessen respect for the law
- Mother In Black should monitor current serious traffic cases, these men should have been charged indictably
- Chancellor should make a statement on this issue
- TIME FOR SERIOUS THINKING AND APPLICATIONS
- Magistrate Yaw is often quite strict in court
- This is one of the easiest tests
- Women drivers take their time and observe the rules of the road
- Impotent
- Mandatory prison sentence for reckless driving
- The minibuses don't have seat belts
- Traffic education an important part of reform
- Issuing of drivers' licences should be checked
- Enforce existing traffic laws before making new ones
- Take steps against noise nuisances
- The mini bus battle
- Stop the recklessness
- Mini-bus, Boom Boom and My Experiences
- Deal with the nuisance now
- Install the tachometer
- They have inspired others
- Implement the heavy fines
- Put an end to the boom-boom boxes
- We cannot tolerate the annoyance
- Bring back the big buses
- Minibus monopoly should be broken
- Take a firm stand against this lawlessness
- Government and police must not budge
- Traffic law reform should reflect consultation exercise
- New traffic laws should be guided by fines in Singapore
- Government must come down hard on minibus issue
- Proposals for traffic, keeping city clean
- Minibus drivers face a lot of pressure
- No protest in Berbice by 63 route buses last Thursday
- Road safety is a serious issue
- Let the big buses roll again
- FACE THE FACTS:
- What about a state-run transport service?
- Stop the slaughter!
- The Brazilian bus company had failed
- Very loud noise can damage the hearing and create a negative mindset
- Time for action
- Minibus drivers should not work more than five hours continuously
- The problem is existing laws are not enforced
- Dangerous modifications are made locally to minibuses
- Minibuses a symptom of lawlessness
- Dangerous modifications are made locally to minibuses
- The Nelson's eye syndrome
- They have to speed to make money
- Prioritise proposal dealing with the issue of drivers' licences
- Drivers should take serious note
- Minibus fares should be regulated
- Drivers could be sentenced to attend driving school for minor offences
- Agents of anarchy
- A deeper look at the seatbelt issue is necessary
January 28, 2004
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