A routine journey home turned into an extra two-hour ordeal for a son with autism, prompting his mother to urge bus drivers to ‘slow down’ at a bus stop opposite Siglap MRT station.
Facebook user Brenda Tan shared a post on Tuesday (June 9) about the incident, requesting bus captains plying the route opposite Siglap MRT station to give travellers with autism a little extra time to process and react when flagging for the bus from 5pm to 6pm.
St. Andrew’s Autism Centre is located in the vicinity.
“It could make their journeys a little smoother and less stressful,” she wrote.
Tan told AsiaOne that her son, who left the centre at 5pm, returned home two hours later than usual that day — his journey home usually takes about an hour and a half.
Noticing that her son’s location was still at the bus stop at 6pm, Tan called him on his tracker watch and reminded him to flag down the bus.
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