SINGAPORE: Videos of two incidents of people blocking the road, and in one case, not even letting vehicles pass, have spread on social media lately, leading netizens to wonder why people are acting so entitled and selfish these days.
One video was posted on the COMPLAINT SINGAPORE Facebook page on Oct 13 (Sunday). It showed people taking their sweet time walking from one part of the street to another and not using a pedestrian lane.
The post author, Coral Ting Hoh, called them “self-entitled pedestrians” and added, “You are not the only road users; please don’t take it for granted this is not a zebra crossing.”
Judging from the reactions to her post, many netizens agreed with her.
In the other video, posted on Facebook and YouTube and shared on Reddit, a cyclist used a zebra crossing at Anchorvale but refused to budge in front of a Grab car, reportedly …