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| ====== Week 004 ====== | ====== Week 004 ====== |
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| | ===== Thursday 15 July 2021 ===== |
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| | ==== Herbert Lian ==== |
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| | CV & Resume |
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| | Billy Kwan and AP |
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| There are many big initiatives and movements all over the world addressing this issue. But I believe that all big things are built on the tiny little actions that each and every one of us do. I'd like to tell you about one such tiny building block: Cycling for recreation and transportation. | There are many big initiatives and movements all over the world addressing this issue. But I believe that all big things are built on the tiny little actions that each and every one of us do. I'd like to tell you about one such tiny building block: Cycling for recreation and transportation. |
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| First, Recreation. everybody knows cycling is a healthy and invigorating activity. Not only does it get your heart pumping, but doing it outdoors among some Nature is refreshing. Recently, the Rail Corridor opened an entrance near to where I live here in Kampung Bahru, near the old Tanjung Pagar Railway Station. And I have been most fortunate to have ridden my bike on it a few times. It is not only refreshing, but allows me to appreciate much much better. | First, Recreation. everybody knows cycling is a healthy and invigorating activity. Not only does it get your heart pumping, but doing it outdoors among some Nature is refreshing. Recently, the Rail Corridor opened an entrance near to where I live here in Kampung Bahru, near the old Tanjung Pagar Railway Station. And I have been most fortunate to have ridden my bike on it a few times. It is not only refreshing, but allows me to appreciate Nature much much better. |
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| | That is for Recreation. More than just for fun, |
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| Coincidentally, both my home and where I used to work are located next to this Rail Corridor. There were times when I had had walked home on it from office. But we should have many more of this everywhere, all over the island. Park Connectors are wonderful, but way too few and too far in between. They don't really quite connect, you know what I mean ? | Coincidentally, both my home and where I used to work are located next to this Rail Corridor. There were times when I had had walked home on it from office. But we should have many more of this everywhere, all over the island. Park Connectors are wonderful, but way too few and too far in between. They don't really quite connect, you know what I mean ? |
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| There needs to be | For bicycle to become an acceptable mode of public transportation, there needs to be some very serious changes. |
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| | On one hand, the infrastructure support needs to be improve drastically. In addition to lots more bicycle-friendly paths, etc, we also need other kinds of support too. With the hot and humid tropical climate, it would not do for us to work up a sweat cycling and then just go into office. And outside of MRT stations, the number of bicycle lots are woefully inadequate. I am sure with a little imagination, lots more can be done. |
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| | On the social front, the reality is that going forward, drivers and cyclists will share many public roads and both sides need to build up a healthy respect for each other for the sake of safety for all. |
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| | And if we can somehow manage to promote more cycling and less carbon-emissions, that would find its way back to Gaia. |
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| | In Gaia, the myriad parts that make up the system we call Earth has unimaginable momentum, but if all of us do our little part .... |
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| | ==== Feedback from Lisa Lim and Tim Chua ==== |
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| | Not sufficient markers |
| | Over-ambitious |
| | Talking to friends |
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