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SINGAPORE \u2013 Pedestrians can freely explore the Joo Chiat heritage area<\/span><\/a> on foot without any traffic in sight when a section of the district goes car-free on Oct 3 between 3.30pm and 9.30pm.<\/p>\n The Land Transport Authority (LTA) said in a statement on Sept 2 that it will close the section between Dunman Road and East Coast Road to traffic on that Saturday to mark World Car-Free Day, with plans to host exhibits and activities along that stretch.<\/p>\n This is the first time an area outside the Central Business District will be off-limits to cars and other vehicles for the annual event, which encourages people across the globe to explore more sustainable ways to commute.<\/p>\n Although World Car-Free Day is celebrated on Sept 22, LTA said it is working with government agencies, community organisations and industry partners to host a series of activities from September to November.<\/p>\n Besides closing off a section of Joo Chiat Road in October, LTA is also working with the Health Promotion Board to kick-start a challenge to encourage more people to clock steps and take up walking.<\/p>\n From Sept 14 to 30, those using the Healthy 365 app will receive a special-edition World Car-Free Day badge if they clock at least 10,000 steps for four straight days.<\/p>\n LTA also said it has developed an interactive mobile game in a tie-up with the Government Technology Agency that can be accessed through the CrowdTaskSG platform.<\/p>\n The game is available from Sept 1 to Nov 30, and will require participants to walk, cycle and take public transport to locations across the island as they complete different challenges.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n SINGAPORE \u2013 Pedestrians can freely explore the Joo Chiat heritage area on foot without any traffic in sight when a section of the district goes…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":81811,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/81811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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