We are just trying to earn a living, say food delivery riders | The Straits Times 

Yah, but not at the expense of pedestrian's safety, especially old people and children walking...!!!☝️😳🙄😬🤨

Agree..the pedestrian walk on street with earphone without noticed what happened around them..

The fact that many food delivery e-bikes misuse their e-brikes by riding on pedestrian path at overheard bridges where they suppose to dismount and push their e-brike when they wanted to cross from one side to the other side. I have witinessed many time that some of them riding very fast and almost hit a walking pedestrian from behind.

I have personally seem many pmd riders riding on footpaths towards me and my daughter at min 20kmph and never bother to slow down fot pedestrian as expecting the pedestrian to give way to them. Such act I think it's dangerous and I truly support the new ruling.

LTA haven come Serangoon

If they can implement a PMD device that cannot go above the speed limit even with illegal meddling then maybe it will be workable.

get a bicycle... life goes on but it is admittedly a bit ridiculous for the government to ban PMDs from footpaths when there aren't many alternative routes and the bicycle path network is a joke

Me to fiil sorry for them, not easy not earn money for lokal, what if pmd for food delivery only 😞😟

Singapore law are pathetics...even banning most of the time... What about customs using PMD to chase illegal seller on cigaratess in geylang area...why not banned them too...

they shld get a free exchange for the e-scooters

Hope 🤣🤣🤣

Respect the law of Singapore 🇸🇬 regulated by LTA. Your alternative choice it’s motorcycle or bicycle 🚲 another form of transport. 🙏🏻🙏🏻

Earning a living old excuses..more of like earning a greedy living.. with making almost 200 to 300 a day..dont make so many excuses laaa..

Use bicycle

2:25 LOL is she suggesting PMD riders are no longer humans? Ascended to godhood is it?

Ban cars, PMD, PMA, ban every forms of transport lah. Buy our own food. Take MRT. Wow. No more COE

Now want to buy motorbike also ridiculous...150cc bike cost 19k..wth....

walking when watching video,with earphone listen music,talking with friend in vertical line,even walking in bicycle lane.Blocking others walking they also don't know.LTA singapore going to bend them from walking on foot path???Rich person buy sport car,U asspect they don't speed???SINGAPORE SICK LIAO.

SyStem have to run with both side,and not one side.BEND AND FINE ,can solve problem???

SG full of law and nonsenses...

Cannot means Cannot.."No means No". That's why they are call rules..

This demographic no job what's the plan?

Those singaporean not able to get a job. Its hard to earn. Please do not ban. Alot company Employer out there taking foreign worker bcoz lower salary. These foreign worker eg. Malaysian exchange rate x3 can afford buy 2 cars & big terrace or bangalow houses at their home country. While we singaporean loose out. Want to earn a living is hard then how to pay school fees or help family income for those having old & sick parents. Some work as a food delivery to pay school fees.

Stop using an emotional blackmail that you need to support your family. The fact is that there were normal foot pedestrians whom are seriously injured or even sadly died. Imagine that happened to you family members

Make escooter riders ride on roads but not expressway, wear helmets and pay road tax, get insurance, do servicing, i believe it may solve some of these problems especially for pedestrians. If the number of pmds convert to bicycles, you still may have to give way to them aint it? My issue here is that they implemented to have the ul2272 certified vehicles and register with lta, I did so, my one and only PMD that i purchased 2 weeks ago, which i paid $1000 to do part time food delivery, i used to do food delivery with bicycles, but i have got slipped disc back injury when i was serving my ns, i can not walk for long due to my injury, but i look like a perfertly fine 30yo person who still gives seats to aunties unkers in train even though my back hurts everytime. So i hope everyone else be fair and not be too early to judge. Now this sudden ban is making me feels like I've got robbed, and you people who dont owned a PMD being biased by thinking all pmd riders are road bullies, and continue to curse us. Be 10% more consideration for us, i do hate those reckless pmd riders too trust me, but its really not all of us.. I believe we are entering the third economy revolution, its going to be recycle energy usage instead of using fuels, thats also why you see more countries and people building solar panels even at traffic junction you can see.. PMD will be useful in the future, mark my words, you will all be using pmds sooner or later. Total ban is not the solution.

Unfortunately, Singapore is a very skewed society. When a small group of people make enough noise, knee jerk effect will kick in and there'll be no consideration for you as you're the targeted one.

If the main issue is no job opportunity, push government to stop hiring foreigners work in this country. Even no Malaysian. Only Singaporean work in Singapore. Settle!

Ridiculous rules.. Some Job Position taken by Foreigners..Now the Law not allowed low income to earn extra income...👎👎👎😠😠 Roller Blade ..🤔🤔🤔

Why so many Singaporeans employed in grab delivery in the 1st place? Precisely cos they have a hard time finding good jobs, so grab food delivery is their last resort! This ban will affect the livelihood of these people, who need to feed their family. Again, it seems like the government has not really considered the views for all stakeholders properly before announcing the ban.

If government ban they have to consider for the half refund buy pmd is not cheap

Singapore wasn’t ready for it. So they give people hope and take it away. I know that sucks. It’s that age old question would you rather love and lost than rather not love at all. The pmd rider would say the latter. In hindsight they shouldn’t allow in the first place unless there is a pmd network which can be taxed to fund it. I suppose you can say the government is being nice at the beginning by giving people the chance to self regulate but there is too many bad riders. The thing is people don’t feel safe on the sidewalks, even if you are going slow and I would say a majority is not doing 10km/h because that’s really slow. So no one is following the rules and the government warned everyone that they would ban if this continues and it’s just story after story of pmd fires and on the roadway. Mix that in with people living in fear in public spaces. They want to earn a living , people want to walk safe. Did the government do the right thing? Any can propose a legitimate solution? And is there really a ban? I’ve seen grab food on the sidewalks, ive seen the usual gang of riders late at night. Even today a guy was riding his pmd in the mall. IN THE MALL 🤣 anyone take this garment seriously 🤷🏻‍♂️

Government now think bicycle and electric bicycle is safe. I completely disagreed. Food delivery in bicycle can cause more road accidents along the road with vehicle when there are more riders . And this accidents can be even more severe than accidents from Pmd rider. Government should consider implement safety courses, more safety regulation, insurance or rider licence for pmd riders instead of ban. Everyday there are so many all kinds road accidents between motorcar and pedestrian so why don’t they ban motor vehicle or motor bike as well. I think if Singapore government seriously educate and regulates the safety standards of pmd riders , it can very much reduce a lot of accidents. Just give a consideration to think of better ideas instead of banning right away. Many people to becomes food deliverers is not because they like it. They just couldn’t find a job and that is real. Have more mercy please !!

you guys (PMD Riders) had your fun for the past 4 years. And now you want to cry over this? you should have seen it coming a miles away man, seriously majority of you ride like it's your father road/path and expect pedestrians to give way to you what the hell is wrong with you PMD riders. I really wish this implementation to the BAN is permanent.

They resort to deliveries because Singapore has no better jobs for them

Even vehicles also have accidents on the road so why not ban automotives

Its the mentality that Singaporeans need to change. Even if govt build cycling paths all over SG, youll get some speeding PMDs, bicycles and pedestrians walking on cycling path. We have to be more thoughtful, responsible and lookout for one another. Everyone just wanna rush delivering food, speeding for leisure on PMD and listening to music and checking their phones while walking.

Look, no fingers are the same length you can't just banned all PMD...not all are speedster or doesn't care...yet speed are cut 25 km/h...government are pathetic!!!.

Management jobs for angmoh/malaysian/indonesia/malaysian FT EPs and SPs, food delivery jobs for locals. LOL what kind of hell are we living in.

Am not a pmd rider. however,putting myself in their shoes,it is absolutely frustrating knowing that they have follow all regulation impose such as UL2272,speed limit and finally ban which makes their delivery work seems punishing.they are Singaporean too who needs to feed their loved ones.and some needs the money for their family/love ones medical treatment.please be flexible to create a win-win regulation the soonest possible for the sake of kindess to our fellow Singaporean. One suggestion; lift the ban for pmd delivery riders who really need this work.create a criteria. firstly need to be Singaporean etc.secondly,increase the age group etc. For peace & harmony.

Pedestrians: We are just trying not to get killed by Pmd riders

Jobs not available how to survive in singapore if have every month $15k and just talking without thinking then it just a non thinking person which have voted for who dont have the empthy

Note: so Manny grab food they come under my block

Just limit the speed. Here is one way... All PMDs need to be fitted with a simple electronic device. This device has a on/off switch. When on, the PMD is limited to 10km/h. Also when switched on, there is a flashing light in front and back of PMD. This tells everybody around the rider has complied when on a footpath (more about this later). This device also logs when the times the switch is on or off. Food delivery agents (riders) need to turn this switch on when on a footpath and turn it off when not on footpath. How to enforce this ? Allow citizens to report non complying riders. If any rider does not have a flashing light when on a footpath, then the observer will note which company he works for (grab, deliveroo, etc) by his uniform, time, and location. This observer goes online and lodges a investigation. Upon receiving this, the govt will then request the delivery company to forward all time logs of the on/off speed switch, and a GPS (with timestamps) trail of where the PMD is for the day for all the company's riders in that area. If confirmed, rider gets big fine. Of course this requires all rider to have a GPS with timestamp trail on every delivery trip. The mobile phone should be able to do this.

Unfair?? Try talking unfair to the family of the Bedok auntie who died after being knocked down by a PMD

Everyone has their own perspective and story. The number of injuries caused this backlash and what do you say to those who are injured? And not all PMDs are food deliveries.

We can learn from China, create a designated path for bicycles and escooters along the road.

Pity these people . Driving cars more accidents so ban cars ? Sometimes just some common sense would be enough to make things better but these extreme measures caused by others are affecting not just the riders but customers who now cannot order food .

Riot la knn simple

It's is just like they give you food to eat. Halfway eating, they say stop. Wait until all the food is on the table then you can begin to eat. How can they allowed PMD sale in the first place then ban it and say wait for infrastructure to be in tandem then allowed to ride. Ridiculous.

Very heavy looo Mee goreng

They can use bicycle why PMD?

Our great nation la guys

Happy happy launch and then ban over night? Being an agency head, if he doesn't care about our own people we should replace him. Yes PMD have to be out of foot path but not like this! Now this ban is so stupid and unreasonable!

I am not a PMD rider but I empathise with the food delivery riders. Which makes me question why do young Singaporeans have to work as food delivery riders to earn a living while the country is been flooded by foreign "talents" !? I hope the government do something to make Singapore livable for Singaporeans!

All rider just follow the rules……and everything should be all right!

Pmd not only speed the rider sometimes parking anyhow seen before yjey argue with Security officers

Footpath mean footpath. Mean when you walking on footpath, you won,t scare of getting hit by any other motorise machine.

Actually this can be done.. Y not PMD for only food delivery only.. When they on shift work.. They can use ride it.. So when they off duty they can't ride or use it..and customer service center of grab and food panda.. Must work together with the delivery guys.. La..

If u adhere to instructions fm the govt l'm sure they will not implement new laws, but the sad truth is after a while all rules broke free!

If LTA had learnt from western countries that escooters are not allowed on footpaths, the deaths would not have occurred. To learn after deaths occurred is one life too many. EROSION OF GOOD GOVERNANCE.

Government should issue special licence to food delivery riders. So many videos about pmd users speeding on the road for the past years, and how many of them are food delivery riders?? I believe singapore government can be more flexible.

PMD delivery: "we are just trying to make a living." Pesdestrians: "we are just trying to walk on the footpaths without fear. "

Later Sg gov will ask to pay for the usage . Go for training and then pay a yearly charge and tax it’s usage . $$$$$$$

Life in Singapore is already tough and seeking job for some of this delivery staffs is difficult. Sudden ban is really difficult for all this delivery staffs who's like everyone's have expenses, families or children to support.

Actually can suggest trying open to food delivery service again only So far not all the fd driver will do aggressive driving, so once notice any aggressive driving, just report that driver to his company and ban his fd permit, that will be more fair to other fd driver who obey the rules

Don't worry, singapore engineer will invent something to deliver food without the use of pmd.

In these case ...singaporean individual have attitude problem towards each other.Lets say govt give a certain years .eg .1yrs no footpath for PMD as punishment bcoz of some irresponsible riders.Then next year allowed again but with some changes.If it doesnt change these minorities.Should increase the years if need.Or certain time no riding on footpath eg.night time.

All because of the initial banning of PMDs from the road. It's actually dangerous for PMDs to be on pedestrian paths due to kerbs and human traffic. The govt should restrict PMDs to be single-file on the left side of the road (just like bicycles) and having them observe normal traffic rules - problem solved, no need for cycling/dedicated riding path.

Just fine will, the faster you go on the footpaths the heavier fine you . Accidents riders fine even more. But banning bit way off. 5km/hr on footpath should do. Kids under 13 should be ban riding pmd alone.

We are just trying to stay alive

Poor govt planning leads to deaths and sufferings of voters

I am 90% safe on the footpath than 90% being endangered on the road.

World highest paid govt?

Let our government employed foreaners.....

Boo woo

The issue is PMDs generate negative externalities which are not accounted for and is borne by pedestrians through accidents. Bicycles are a safer alternative.

carry the pmd on the back once the tyre touch the land they going to implement path tax

Ride on footpath at crowded places, under shelter, giving excuse inconsiderate.. easy job still want to argue..

I got a neighbour in his 60s i think , he been grab delivery on his old uncle bicycle , no problem with rain or pedestrians cos he always cycle on the road. Slow but steady. Singapore already so little people , live is precious for us , so pray and hope not another live is lost due to pmd . So aunty dun complain !

Lift the ban for pmd food deliveries

Slave.....

Stupid people come up with stupid law and rules, they can not understand how one's feel . Government these day don't care much about how you live your lifes lah!

Orbegood

Push! Might as well just walk all the way.

Boo hoo

The best ban of the century👍👍👍 Totally agreed. Now I walk in the park or pavement with my family I need watch out for reckless cyclists😥😥😥

Vote wisely!

Our MPs and Ministers drawing high salaries,they will never understand how hardship u all...The PAP have lost touch to the grounds....Vote the PAP out this coming election....

Try to earn a living by disregarding ppl's lives. Most food delivery riders speed and some even hurl insults to elderly.

Cycle?

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the people who complain about almost getting hit by a pmd are probably the same people who walk on the bicycle and pmd path lmao

To be frank, are we going to ban all drivers and motorcycle riders, who some among them have caused fatal accidents, from mending the roads?

I still see PMD food delivery on footpaths. But I give chance.

Just change the goverment laaaa. Teach them a lesson 1 time

I saw 2 kids riding e scooter very fast at the Yishun void deck , they pass by me and nearly hit me and I was carrying my Son, I’m felt so angry. I still saw many riders e scooter at the shop house and my house void deck After the ban was active by the gov. Seen like the rider doesn’t really care much on the rules , hopefully LTA could be more effective.

i don't have a pmd, but i think a ban is not going to work. We need better solutions besides an outright ban on footpaths, it is not fair to those who need to get around using a pmd

"now s'pore very hard to find job...." question is do you willing to upgrade yourself to take up the job ?? or just want to survive with a N level cert and hope the job market will bend towards you.

Can always get a motorbike license, case close, let’s move on.

is not hard to find a job in singapore, it is hard bec you are just picky about the job.