There’s scant regard for pedestrians

I REFER to the letter by Pola Singh titled “Pedestrian crossings are dangerous now” (The Star, Jan 20; online at bit.ly/star_cross).

When I was in Year One in 1960, my class teacher, Mrs Chai, taught us one lifelong skill that I hold dearly till today. She would take us to the roadside next to our school and drill into us on how to cross the road: Look left, look right,