A new road safety park is to open today in Muntinlupa City in Metro Manila. While the objectives of the park appear to be clear enough to most people, I’ve seen some unusual reactions vs. the park. Instead of stating my piece about this and road safety parks, I will just share a couple of links on similar facilities in two countries in our region where road safety is strongly advocated not just by private citizens but by their governments:

Road Safety Park in Singapore: https://www.torque.com.sg/features/singapores-road-safety-community-park-was-built-30-years-ago/

Traffic Garden (Taman Lalu Lintas) in Malaysia: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1BF8ruywsZ/

You can also try to Google other road safety parks or gardens in other countries to see other examples of these and how other cities have utilized the parks to promote road safety especially among children. It is better to learn about these parks and perhaps recommend how these can help rather than start shooting from the hip to discredit these and their proponents.

[Note: The MMDA has a road safety park in Manila that is patterned after the Malaysian and Singapore examples.]

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