{"id":247841,"date":"2025-10-29T04:13:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T04:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/247841\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T04:13:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T04:13:08","slug":"cyclist-discovers-cycling-path-in-woodlands-that-abruptly-ends-at-a-drain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/247841\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyclist discovers cycling path in Woodlands &#8212; that abruptly ends at a drain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">Ethel Tseng<br \/>TNP<br \/>Oct 27, 2025<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">A cyclist&#8217;s tale of following a paved path that leads to a drain along Woodlands Road, where the path abruptly stops, has sparked both amusement and frustration online.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">On Oct 26, TikTok user @usersdedd posted a video of the discovery, which has since garnered over 430,000 views and 45,800 likes as of press time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">The 12-second clip shows a path that stops at the edge of a drain. The cyclist, taken aback, says in Malay: &#8220;What is this? Is it telling me to jump in?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">The camera pans to the right and left, where no alternative routes are seen.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mx-auto block max-h-full max-w-full object-contain\"  alt=\"Cyclist shocked by path that leads to drain\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cassette.sphdigital.com.sg\/image\/stomp\/e693fba646aa401ea9052415c4d7d5cfb8faf628431f7612ddbb172f662c6619\/woodlands.png?w=960&amp;f=webp\"\/>PHOTO: GOOGLE MAPS\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\"><a class=\"text-primary-500 hover:underline\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tnp.sg\/news\/it-telling-me-jump-cyclist-shocked-path-leads-drain?ref=section-top\" target=\"_blank\">The New Paper<\/a> has reached out to usersdedd for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Netizens amused at sight<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">Some netizens found the situation humorous, with one commenting: &#8220;When you&#8217;re trying to have a healthy lifestyle, but life said no.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">Another said: &#8220;The silence then the crashout is valid.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">Others empathised with the original poster&#8217;s frustration, criticising the design of the path. &#8220;Totally speechless at how they made this path,&#8221; one added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">One netizen reported seeing similar paths that led to nowhere, while others quipped that it might be meant for people who wanted to fish in the drain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-secondary pt-md text-18 font-normal leading-1.5 text-grayscale-800\">&#8220;Maybe it&#8217;s a sign you should take a leap of faith,&#8221; another joked.<\/p>\n<p>Get more of Stomp&#8217;s latest updates by following us on:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ethel TsengTNPOct 27, 2025 A cyclist&#8217;s tale of following a paved path that leads to a drain along&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247842,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,9485,147109,15503,137647,85,101,4050],"class_list":["post-247841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cycling","tag-cyclist","tag-drain","tag-lta","tag-nparks","tag-sports","tag-tiktok","tag-viral"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}