Soon, travellers may only be checked once under a proposal to improve traffic flow at the Johor–Singapore Causeway, says Malaysian prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak. According to The Star, Najib said the plan was for people going into Singapore to be checked in the republic, and those heading to Johor will be checked on the Malaysian side. Apparently, there’s also a proposal to have a covered walkway for pedestrians.
Deputy prime minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, the chairperson of a special committee tasked to solve the traffic congestion on the Causeway, will be meeting with Singapore’s deputy prime minister Teo Chee Hean to further refine this proposal.
“They (Singapore) must form an action body as carried out by Malaysia – I have not met with Singapore Deputy Prime Minister (Teo) because he is in the same position as I and we will discuss the matter in detail,” Zahid told Bernama during a conference after launching the project to rebuild the Yong Peng-Segamat federal road in Tenang recently.
He also said if the proposal could be implemented, the single checkpoint would play an important role in enabling a smooth flow of traffic and overcome the problem of congestion plaguing the Causeway. “We know that there is a bottleneck at the Johor Causeway and I have discussed with the Johor Menteri Besar for the state government as well as the federal government to tackle the issue together,” he added.
“Malaysia is very serious in dealing with the congestion issue at the Causeway as we have allocated RM100 million for upgrading works to overcome the problem,” said Zahid.
Separately, deputy home minister Datuk Nur Jazlan Mohamed told The Sun that the proposal for a single immigration and customs checkpoint at the Johor Causeway was good, but Singapore’s Home Affairs Ministry (MHA) has turned it down.
Jazlan cautioned that we should not compromise on security. “If we let a single terrorist sneak into the country, it would be a big damage to our society,” he said. The Straits Times yesterday quoted MHA as saying “it is not possible to do away with immigration and custom checks (on the Singaporean side) for departing travellers. The Singapore government will continue to work with Malaysia to explore other practical ways to facilitate travel between Singapore and Malaysia,” it added.
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Down south selowpoke. MY alredi looking at how we can make travel seamlessly.
Why SG wanna waste money on this? It’s their loss coz MY people flock there to work while SG people come here to spent money. That’s why they never agreed to replace the causeway or upgrade the checkpoint
While MY is thinking globally and want ASEAN to integrate and make it great, SG still wanna hide inside their own shell. Well, let them be. When OBOR comes, they will have no choice but to open up.
why MY people flock there to work?
Malaysia GDP growth rate among the highest in Asia, Ringgit hits all-time high vs Usd, low unemployment rate, GST make cheaper daily items dan cheapest car
I wonder what happen to Sg work force if My G restrict My pipu to work the. My depend on Sg? ya..ur logic are great.
China is most efficient. People can travel seamlessly btw China and HK.
Literally China n HK is actually one country today. Try say that during HK still own by the Brit.
Reclaim Causeway & build mega checkpoint. Good for Johor state economy, another step nearer to 1st world utopia.
The Government can’t even solve the motorbikes using the Federal Highway also, they want to solve this kah?
Basic also cannot do. Everyday, eventhough motorbike lane already open and ready to use, thousands of motorbikes still go left and right on fast lane of the car lanes on Federal highway
PDRM blame MBPJ. MBPJ blame DBKL. DBKL blame JPJ. JPJ Blame PDRM and so forth
Still all blaming each other. Still got no solution
Even basic like this also cannot selesai, that also in Capital KL, how you want to solve congestion at Johor checkpoint???
Lolz! This from someone who confuses engine and gearbox. Boleh pakai what he said kah?
I say destroy both the Causeway and Second Link bridges and replace with Penang-style ferries instead. Johor people need to stop being so reliant on SG for income and education while the Malaysians in this country can manage just fine all this while. If you like SG so much then go live there!
Pegi sempadan Golok & Hatyai lg hibur..
Singapore already declined. Safety first. Dont shiok sendiri. 100mil better off upgrading second link checkpoint. If its good ppl will go there instead.
Borderless world !! Merge the two countries !! adopt corruption free values…
Agreed. We shud legalise it like down south
seriously can u comfortably handover ur hse key and let ur neighbor jaga your hse while u jaga his?
During CNY, I handover my hse key to my neighbour and they do the same during HRP. No problemo.
Yup. Spirit of muhibbah. Cheers to Malaysia!
SG likes the congestion as it is. If they really were as efficient a country as they are trying to portray, how is it that the donkeys in their checkpoints be that slow all these decades?
Chinese have a saying; if the area has traffic jams, that means its prosperous. So if SG let it to be traffic jam, that means…
Single point of failure. Bravo logic failed.
More ‘lanes’ for concurrency and parallelism would speed up border congestion (of course need more people working, and not like counters in Aeon Big only 2 out of 18 counter opened).
You know what is faster then 1 border checkpoint? Reduces to zero checkpoint or increase more checkpoints!
Issue is the weak Ringgit