Please turn off engine when stationary

[Passim]

In the Environment Protection and Management Act, Chapter 94A, Section 12 (5) and 77, Environment Protection and Managment (Vehicular Emissions) Regulations, it states:

 

PART V

OFFENCES

19 Smoky motor vehicles

20 Excessive noise

21 Stationary motor vehicles

21A Duty to provide information

22 Restriction of motor vehicles on roads

23 Penalty

 

Stationary motor vehicles

(1) Subject to paragraph (2), the driver of every motor vehicle shall, when the vehicle is

stationary for reasons other than traffic conditions, stop the engine of or other machinery attached

to or forming part of the vehicle.

(2) Nothing in paragraph (1) shall apply to the examination or working of the machinery attached

to or forming part of a motor vehicle where any such examination or working is rendered necessary

by any failure or derangement of the machinery or where the machinery is required to be worked

for some ancillary purpose.

(3) Any person who fails to comply with paragraph (1) shall be guilty of an offence.

 

Penalty

23. Any person who is guilty of an offence under any provision of these Regulations shall be liable

on conviction to a fine not exceeding $2,000 and, in the case of a second or subsequent conviction,

to a fine not exceeding $5,000.

 

Clearly, it is an offence not to turn off the engine when your vehicle is stationary, for example, you run off to buy 4D while your wife or children wait in the car with the engine on. Another example you see all the time is at the school gates, parents waiting for their child to finish school, sat in their cars with engine on.

 

Prehaps this law is obscure which is why we even see motorist leaving the engine on while refuelling at the petrol station. Maybe NEA should start a campaign to educate motorist about this.

 

 

[Gearoil]

Is there a law against anyone losing billions of $$$ without adequate explaination?

[Leepee]

Does this apply to the Excavator and those 50ton cranes?

I always see their smelly black diesel smoke, and YET their vehicle is Stationary at that spot for the whole day!

 

If they can justify using the lifting and digging action to on the engine, then WHY car cannot use the listening to radio and enjoy air-con as justification to keep the engine running?

 

Clause (2) clearly allows one to keep the engine on for running an ancillary equipment, aka Air con. Please remember air con is NOT standard or part of the factory car! Some countries consider air-con as options.

 

"where the machinery is required to be worked for some ancillary purpose."[/color]

Edited March 6, 2009 by Leepee

[Quirky_ster]

Wow... now I know that it's even an offense to turn on the engine of our OPC car during the peak hours even for the purpose of warming it up after days of unuse...

 

 

[Dafansu]

there's alot of laws which a layman wont know unless someone brings it out. such laws and regulations are very common and most of the time one will only be taken to task only if there's a persistant complaints. the regulation u mentioned is more commonly used against those coaches that parked at hdb area,leaving their engines on affecting the residents. for normal cases i believe NEA wont take action against us unless there's a complaint. other minor regulations like, sleeping at a park is an offence, trading at the mrt gantry entrance is an offence. all these regulations to me is more to prevent persistant nuisance if there's any.

[Mustank]

mine got turbo cannot shut down immediately

 

must wait for a minute

[Koren]

no warming up of engine everyone.. once crank must put in D and go~

 

i kena warning letter from nea before.. duno where the bugger caught me also..

[Mustank]

steady

[Jamstart]

Dont see why at the traffic, while you are stopping, differs from stationary, so while you are waiting at the traffic, remember to off it.

Edited March 6, 2009 by Jamstart

[Doosan]

coaches r hvng seperate set of engine jz to powered e aircon system so providing comfort 4pax, esp tourist coaches.

 

yrs back, a jaybee factory bus came n kastam opicer walkd in doing routine inspectn,

found whole bus like sornaa, driver said aircon pai liow !

 

further chk found they hv removed e engine, which intergrated aircon unit, whole compartment filled up wit rokok2.

 

last yr attended safety driving course orgisd by cnc, e angmoh trainer said vehicles in ec muz off e engines when parkd stationery (not in traffic lights) for more than 30 sec.......our weather wud make many people "heapsee"= heat stroke

[Yuan]

mine got turbo cannot shut down immediately

 

must wait for a minute

 

Install turbo timer....Tune it to shut down your engine from 0-10 sec loh.

[Turbine]

Modern TC car no need warm down le~ Unless u redline it all the way home one.....

[Yuan]

Dont see why at the traffic, while you are stopping, differs from stationary, so while you are waiting at the traffic, remember to off it.

 

Like that, very troublesome right? On and off the engine......Very stressful....Won't that add stress to the stepper motor and cause its early demise? Then who will pay for the replacement of the starter motor?

[Mustank]

at first when i got the truck

 

i don even know what is turbo

 

all i know is the sales rep told me when reach destination must wait for about 30 sec to a minute before shut down

 

i resisted putting the timer for about a year

 

sometimes i luan and luan because reach destination cannot go to toilet

 

then on the 2nd year i buah tahan go put the timer

[Cjgoh]

In the Environment Protection and Management Act, Chapter 94A, Section 12 (5) and 77, Environment Protection and Managment (Vehicular Emissions) Regulations, it states:

 

PART V

OFFENCES

19 Smoky motor vehicles

20 Excessive noise

21 Stationary motor vehicles

21A Duty to provide information

22 Restriction of motor vehicles on roads

23 Penalty

 

Stationary motor vehicles

(1) Subject to paragraph (2), the driver of every motor vehicle shall, when the vehicle is

stationary for reasons other than traffic conditions, stop the engine of or other machinery attached

to or forming part of the vehicle.

(2) Nothing in paragraph (1) shall apply to the examination or working of the machinery attached

to or forming part of a motor vehicle where any such examination or working is rendered necessary

by any failure or derangement of the machinery or where the machinery is required to be worked

for some ancillary purpose.

(3) Any person who fails to comply with paragraph (1) shall be guilty of an offence.

 

Penalty

23. Any person who is guilty of an offence under any provision of these Regulations shall be liable

on conviction to a fine not exceeding $2,000 and, in the case of a second or subsequent conviction,

to a fine not exceeding $5,000.

 

Clearly, it is an offence not to turn off the engine when your vehicle is stationary, for example, you run off to buy 4D while your wife or children wait in the car with the engine on. Another example you see all the time is at the school gates, parents waiting for their child to finish school, sat in their cars with engine on.

 

Prehaps this law is obscure which is why we even see motorist leaving the engine on while refuelling at the petrol station. Maybe NEA should start a campaign to educate motorist about this.

 

I think this is good and bad, wise and stupid, all at the same time. Why?

 

>> You can tell a guy riding a Harley Davidson to shut up his bike when waiting, because that is really noisey (but somehow LTA thinks they are ok to Import?)

>> In Singapore, our climate is just sublimely humid. Turn off the engine and whoever's waiting inside will be steamed alive.

>> Cars imported into Singapore are in compliance to the Emissions Act, whyall these restrictions about noise and air polution? If Global Polution is t obe taken seriously, why the hell are oil companies still making billions and hybrid cars so expensive and somewhat hampered in development?

>> In addition, old cars (above 2 years) are subjected to VICOM testing for emission standards. So is the above rules and reglations a little LAME?

>> Idling cars beside a busy main road; which one produce more noise and polution? The idling ones or those roaring by?

 

Dumb isn't this???

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Quirky_ster]

 

Yeah Rite.. Who's gonna tell them that!

 

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[TheStupidCow]

Like that, very troublesome right? On and off the engine......Very stressful....Won't that add stress to the stepper motor and cause its early demise? Then who will pay for the replacement of the starter motor?

 

Your fuel savings will

[Vroomtattat]

The only people who likes to keep their engine running when stationary are taxi lohs . . . . come back late at night, leave the headlights and noisy engine on while counting money.

 

Sometimes engine can leave to idle for half an hour. So much money to count??