Huge traffic jams spotted at Causeway on the weekend just before start of June school holidays – Mothership.SG

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Huge car queues have been noticed on the Causeway linking Singapore to Malaysia on Might 28, proper earlier than the June faculty holidays.

Fb consumer Dannie Tan shared photographs of the Causeway at round 9:40am on Might 28, to Fb group 新加坡马来西亚生活情报交流区 (Singapore Malaysia Dwell Replace Trade), displaying the lengthy line of automobiles inching ahead to their vacation spot.

Lengthy queues of automobiles prolonged in each instructions, with what appeared like principally heavy automobiles, reminiscent of vans, headed to Singapore, whereas smaller passenger automobiles like automobiles have been headed to Malaysia.

The publish’s caption learn “first day of college holidays in Singapore” (translated from Chinese language). Might 28 is formally the beginning of the vacations between Semesters 1 and a couple of for main and secondary faculty college students.

At round 12 midday, TikTok consumer @jbsgcauseway shared a video purportedly displaying a jam nonetheless snarling up the Causeway, though some motion may very well be seen.

@jbsgcauseway Heavy visitors jam nonetheless continues….#singapore #johorbahru #causeway #johorsingaporecauseway ♬ It is a Stunning Day – Evan McHugh

By 6:42pm, one other TikTok consumer @jb2singapore shared one other video, with the queue trying considerably smaller.

@jb2singapore28/05/2022 SG TO JB CAUSEWAY at 6.42pm♬ authentic sound – Singapore-JB Causeway Visitors

And by 7:35pm, the Land Transport Authority’s One Motoring web site confirmed one other view of the Causeway, with the visitors jam trying smaller nonetheless.

There nonetheless seemed to be a queue of automobiles headed to Johor, however the highway resulting in Woodlands appeared clear.

This has not been the primary time in latest weeks that massive queues have been noticed on the hyperlinks between Singapore and Johor, after Malaysia introduced that it will be restoring the land border, with some restrictions, on April 1.

Lengthy weekends, particularly, noticed crowds of Singaporeans headed to Johor, having been stored away for a lot of lengthy months as a result of Covid-19 pandemic.

High picture from Dannie Tan and One Motoring.