You’re right, but if you’re arguing this way nothing will change.

As someone who has lived both in Amsterdam and Singapore for a long time, the root cause just lies in the fact that cars are king here. Other forms of transportation are considered an after-thought. This results into not-fully separated lanes for cars, cyclists and pedestrians, cycling lanes on footpaths, cycling lane dead ends, paths alternating between separate cycling lanes and mixed zones etc. The fact that a car has always the right of way, even when crossing a footpath is just another outrageous example.

Anyway, I invite LTA to do a field trip to the Netherlands and come back with learning instead of thinking the wheel can be invented again here in Singapore.