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Travelling into Singapore this holiday season? You may want to prepare ahead for heavy traffic heading in and out of The Lion City. The Johor Causeway has begun to back up with heavy traffic as the year’s end approaches and the holiday season begins.

According to The Sun Daily, both sides of the causeway leaving and entering Johor have been heavily jammed up since this morning, with some drivers taking as long as two hours to get from the Malaysian passport checkpoint to the Woodlands CIQ.

Lorry drivers have equally been struggling with the congestion, despite having a dedicated lane to make their ways across. It was reported that bus drivers weren’t doing much to help the situation either, illegally offloading passengers ahead of the Singaporean checkpoint where no dedicated pedestrian lanes are available for them to use.

State Tourism, Domestic Trade and Consumerism executive committee chairman Datuk Tee Siew Kiong encouraged the public to use the train services available in the area for a quicker commute across the border, the report added.

According to the Land Transport Authority in Singapore, last year’s statistics show that an average of 54,000 passenger vehicles cross the border each day. The figure was an increase over 2013’s 53,000 vehicles daily. However, only three out of 10 of these vehicles were reportedly cars.

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