During an anti-jaywalking operation, Traffic Police officers observed numerous pedestrians ignoring nearby signalised crossings, resulting in fines. Many cited laziness or time-saving despite the short distance to crossings. Elderly pedestrians were particularly at risk, with a rise in accidents involving jaywalking seniors.
Despite a Traffic Police (TP) officer standing less than 30 meters away, a couple brazenly jaywalked across a busy four-lane road near Boon Keng MRT station on July 13.
They weaved around a lorry while motorcycles whizzed past as they dashed to the other side, where another TP officer was waiting. The couple was among ten people, aged 24 to 80, each offered a composition fine of fifty dollars for jaywalking during an anti-jaywalking operation. For almost an hour from 1:30 PM, five TP officers patrolled outside Boon Keng MRT, advising those about to jaywalk to use the signalised pedestrian crossing instead.
One woman in her seventies, hobbling with an umbrella, was stopped by an officer as she was about to step onto the busy road; he directed her to a crossing less than fifty meters away. Another elderly woman jaywalked with her domestic helper before being approached by an officer on the other side; the helper said she had advised her employer to use the crossing, but the older woman insisted on a shortcut.
A total of 1,421 people were caught for jaywalking in 2025, up from 1,591 in 2024, significantly higher than the annual average of around one thousand from 2021 to 2023. Most jaywalkers admitted they knew it was wrong but did so out of laziness and to save time; others claimed the crossing, less than a minute's walk away, was too far. One jaywalker in his thirties told a reporter, "Jaywalking just takes less than thirty seconds.
It's not even that dangerous.
" Later that day at Bendemeer Road, the second operation site, at least twelve people jaywalked within thirty minutes. Several pedestrians who seemed about to jaywalk from Bendemeer Market and Food Centre to opposite office buildings noticed the officers and used the crossing instead. When the reporter returned later that day after officers left, six people jaywalked within ten minutes; most were elderly, some even extended their arms to signal motorists to stop.
Traffic accidents involving jaywalking elderly pedestrians rose from ninety-five in 2024 to one hundred one in 2025
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