Onus on cyclists to prove two wheels rule

THREE Sundays ago, I was biking past the ArtScience Museum when a child on a training bike emerged from a throng of strollers and rode straight at me. I veered/braked, but still failed to avoid a sideswiping situation. The boy fell off his bike on impact; I stayed on my feet but gained a bruise on my right thigh the shape of his handlebar plug.

His parents were actually apologetic but a crowd which had formed around this spectacle of a wailing child, fallen bike and slightly banged-up adult looked like they were thinking one thing: what's a mess of cyclists doing on a "pedestrian avenue"?

The waterfront avenue - from the museum to The Shoppes at Marina Bay Sands - is in fact a popular route with cyclists coming from East Coast Park (ECP), now even more so with a park connector linking ECP to Marina Bay, the new downtown.