Like a scene out of a failed SimCity arrangement, it was total vehicular chaos at the junction of Yio Chu Kang and Ang Mo Kio Avenue 5 yesterday afternoon when traffic lights stopped working.
To make things even worse, it happened during a thunderstorm. Traffic crawled slower as vehicles from all four sides tried to navigate past each other — but failed to do so in an orderly fashion.
A witness who was riding on bus service 88 to Toa Payoh informed The Straits Times that the cars came in from all directions and none gave way; they just “tailgated each other”.
“I felt a bit angry that the cars did not give way to the bus, and I heard many passengers from the lower deck urge the bus drive to ‘just go!'”, said Dilah Ali.
Traffic police eventually arrived soon enough, but by that time, there was already a minor accident at the junction involving four cars. The traffic lights went down due to a ‘technical issue’ and were only fixed by 1.15pm.
“The cars should have given the buses the right of way, but people were kiasu,” said Dilah. That’s Singaporean drivers for ya.
