Author: Benjamin Tan

Plight of Our Shared Bikes

Dockless bike-sharing has long been touted as the ideal complement, alongside Singapore’s growing public transportation infrastructure, to the country’s bid to be a car-lite nation by 2030.

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Quad Lock: Quadruple the Security

This actually happened to me not too long ago – I was cycling along the West Coast stretch with my phone securely clipped onto my bike mount, or so I had thought. Moments later, I traversed a particularly rough section of road that had been ravaged by monstrous heavy duty vehicles that frequent this route every morning. In a blink of an eye, my phone had vanished. I had to backtrack, against the traffic

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More East Coast Park Revamps; What About the West?

East Coast Park (ECP) is once again slated receive shiny new upgrades to its already impressive array of facilities.

By the end of 2019, three main once-popular sites –that have since fallen into disuse—, Goldkist Chalets, Big Splash, and Raintree Cove, will be converted into activity nodes where people can congregate and hopefully disperse human traffic to more parts of the park.

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The Role of Volunteer Public Path Wardens

In a bid to more effectively rein in errant cyclists and users of personal mobility devices (PMDs) such as e-scooters, the Land Transport Authority (LTA) will give some volunteers under the Active Mobility Patrol scheme selected enforcement powers. This is in response to calls from the volunteers, numbering over 800 to date, for greater empowerment.

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All Hail Togoparts Chat Function!

It has been a while, but thank the Good Lord – a slew of updates for the Togoparts app on both iOS and Android stores is finally here. Amongst the changes rolled out are the overall improvements to the user interface, but today, we are focusing on what is probably the coolest introduction to the app so far: the ever-convenient chat function!

Of course, Togoparts can only facilitate and not guarantee a successful transaction, but with the latest app updates, we sure are doing a pretty good job at that.

With that in mind, we’re giving you a little tutorial on how the chat works, so you can have a little peek at how much easier interaction is with this nifty feature.

The first thing you’ll probably notice is the chat icon at the top right-hand corner of your screen, as circled above in orange. We’ll come back to that later, after you’ve selected the ad you’re interested in. In this case, we’re looking at a handy Tsinova Ts01 e-Bike.

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