Expressway

Goldie, a middle-aged yellow labrador, was an experienced road user instructor and also a vocal advocate for dog-friendly road signs. Due to a recent heatwave, the tarmac roads often got too hot in the day for dogs to comfortably run on, thereby requiring dogs to wear booties. To beat the heat, Mr Goldie had resorted to conducting morning and evening classes most of the time. This evening, he has a class for 3 young learner road users - a chihuahua, a corgi and a Singapore Special.

Road User Training was getting more popular amongst dogs. Many dogs spent most of their lives primarily concerned with socializing with other dogs. Being able to use the express road networks to visit farther dog parks greatly benefited doggie networking.

The process for training to become a safe and effective road user is an arduous and strenous process. The training covers many aspects, such as road etiquette, navigation, road signs.

The first module covered basic road etiquette: no peeing and pooing on the road, no blocking other road users, no road rage/excessive barking.

The second module was about road signs, navigation and road network familiarity. The current road network and signs are particularly confusing for dogs as the initial designers of the roads did not have dogs in mind at all while building the roads. Dogs' eyes cannot see some of the colors (red and green) commonly used for road signs well. This may have contributed to the worrying trend of increasing lost and missing dogs reports. Mr Goldie hoped that his classes would go some way towards addressing this problem.