Tuas Lamp Post 1 is a

cycling Cycling, also known as bicycling or biking, is the activity of riding a bicycle or other types of pedal-driven human-powered vehicles such as balance bikes, unicycles, tricycles, and quadricycles. Cycling is practised around the world fo ...

attraction in

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. It is the only

lamp post A street light, light pole, lamp pole, lamppost, streetlamp, light standard, or lamp standard is a raised source of light on the edge of a road or path. Similar lights may be found on a railway platform. When urban electric power distribution b ...

in Singapore on which it is legal to paste

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. This has led to it being covered in stickers as high as 10 meters up. It is located on Tuas South Boulevard, near the

Tuas Mega Port The Port of Singapore is the collection of facilities and container terminal, terminals that conduct maritime trade and handle Singapore's harbours and shipping. It has been ranked as the top maritime capital of the world, since 2015. Currently ...

, about 13km from the Tuas Checkpoint.

History

Tuas Lamp Post 1 first gained prominence in 2014, when it was the destination of a group of 60 cyclists in the LoveCyclingSG group during a 50km bike ride from West Coast Park to

Tuas Tuas ( ) is a planning area located within the West Region of Singapore. It is bounded by the Western Water Catchment to its north, Pioneer to its east and the Straits of Johor to its west. Tuas also shares a maritime boundary with the Weste ...

. Stopping in Tuas at the end of their "Song Song to

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" event, a co-founder of the group, Woon Taiwoon, pasted a "Pedal Until Shiok" sticker on the lamp post. The sticker was later removed by the authorities in routine cleaning by contractors. However, the lamp post gained fame and other cyclists began riding there to take photos and paste their own stickers. Land reclamation for the Tuas Mega Port led to Tuas South Boulevard being extended, so the designation of Tuas Lamp Post 1 was moved to the new end of the road in 2017. This new lamp post is still the current Tuas Lamp Post 1. The lamp post grew in popularity during the circuit breaker measures from April to June 2020, as many Singaporeans took up cycling. The removal of stickers during routine cleaning of the lamp post was controversial. The last time all stickers on Lamp Post 1 were removed by maintenance contractors was in December 2020. On 7 January 2021, Transport Minister

Ong Ye Kung Ong Ye Kung ( ; zh, s=王乙康, p=Wáng Yǐkāng, poj=Ông It-khong; born 15 November 1969) is a Singaporean politician and former civil servant who has been serving as Minister for Health since 2021. A member of the governing People's Acti ...

announced on Facebook that stickers would no longer be removed from the lamp post. The decision to allow stickers to be legally pasted on Tuas Lamp Post 1 was popular in the cycling community, with cyclists describing it as a remarkable exception in Singapore, where vandalism is generally criminalized and harshly punished under the Vandalism Act.

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