The winner!

Well, the taxi won the race for obvious reasons, but Team Cycle didn’t do too badly either.

Cycling may not be the fastest option for this route, but what surprised us was that the team was just 12 minutes behind the team that took public transport.

In fact, smoother or wider paths in certain places along the cycling route could help to speed up the overall time, perhaps even by up to 10 minutes.

The stretch between the Ulu Pandan and Alexandra park connectors was difficult to weave through because of the morning peak hour crowd. ST journalist Danson Cheong rang his bicycle bell 35 times while on the footpaths as opposed to just 6 times while on the park connectors.

A Land Transport Authority (LTA) spokesman has confirmed there will be a dedicated cycling path built between the two park connectors as proposed by MP Muhammad Faishal Ibrahim when he was Parliamentary Secretary for Transport in 2015.

As for the CBD, the LTA has built two cycling paths, one along Marina Boulevard and one next to Gardens by the Bay. A bike-sharing pilot programme will be launched this year aimed at encouraging more to cycle to commute between homes, nearby amenities and MRT stations.

CYCLE STATS

TIME SPENT BELL RUNG TOTAL DISTANCE (KM) On PCNs 0:26:30 On footpaths 0:36:21 On PCNs 6 On footpaths 35 On PCNs 7 On footpaths 6.2