Parents, schools get creative to beat school run traffic chaos

Many schools have, since the pandemic, staggered their dismissal times to avoid having too many students intermingling, which have in turn eased heavy traffic around school zones.

Traffic congestion from cars picking up and dropping off students around school zones is known to have caused illegal parking and queue-cutting by errant drivers.he threatened to run down a 62-year-old security officer with his BentleyUnion of Security Employees general secretary Raymond Chin said that the driver had cut the queue of cars waiting to enter the school.

Every weekday at about 7am, a line of cars can be seen queueing along Bartley Road, waiting to enter Maris Stella High School to drop off their children.Students with their parents walk to school with the heavy traffic outside Maris Stella High School on Jan 13, 2022. ST PHOTO: KUA CHEE SIONG Housewife Julia Soh, who drove her daughter to Nanyang Girls' High School and her son to Hwa Chong Institution, said:"There are parents sending their kids to school, people taking public transport and people going to work."At Sota, about two to three cars entered the school every five minutes from 8.15am, as many students were still doing home-based learning.

Security personnel marshalling traffic as students enter Nanyang Girls High School on Jan 13, 2022. ST PHOTO: JASON QUAH

One of the best public transport systems in the world hands down, billions invested and people still feel the urge to chauffeur their kids.

Lets welcome the 10M population.. lol

Let them take public transport, no private car or taxi, especially higher level say maybe P3 up...?

When the Pulitzer Prize for the ST for this top-notch investigative journalism?

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