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Commuters experience four-hour jam at Causeway

• QX179R

  11 Jun 11, 22:29

  SINGAPORE: Commuters were stuck in a jam at the Causeway for over four hours on Saturday.

  Since the biometric fingerprint scanning system was introduced by Malaysia on June 1, complaints have surfaced over longer waiting times to clear the checkpoints.

  A picture taken from a traffic camera at the Woodlands Checkpoint showed a long line of cars waiting to get into Johor Bahru. And the queue stretched all the way up the BKE on the Singapore side.
  
  Motorists said the situation was made worse by the increase in traffic due to the school holidays.
  
  Daily commuters working here and heading home to Malaysia said their travel time is now much longer.
  
  -CNA/ac

• sbst275

  11 Jun 11, 22:55

  They've finally decided how to deal w/ repeat entry Singaporeans today.

  400 ppl waiting at Kranji  

• lemon1974

  11 Jun 11, 23:04

  Originally posted by sbst275:

  They've finally decided how to deal w/ repeat entry Singaporeans today.

  400 ppl waiting at Kranji  

  even if SBST go add 30 more buses today also no use... all will still stuck in jam.. and frankly speaking, the scanning system is a joke.... i have see many times those malaysia cars just show their passport to the immigration officers in their cars and then just proceed already. did not even need to pass the passport to the officers.. i ask my friends and they say that it is normal practise..

• sbst275

  11 Jun 11, 23:22

  Originally posted by lemon1974:

  even if SBST go add 30 more buses today also no use... all will still stuck in jam.. and frankly speaking, the scanning system is a joke.... i have see many times those malaysia cars just show their passport to the immigration officers in their cars and then just proceed already. did not even need to pass the passport to the officers.. i ask my friends and they say that it is normal practise..

  
  add more bus lagi worst

  cos if one were to realise, the lorries are difficult to clear them out. They get least priority.

• AEW5001

  11 Jun 11, 23:24

  Originally posted by lemon1974:

  even if SBST go add 30 more buses today also no use... all will still stuck in jam.. and frankly speaking, the scanning system is a joke.... i have see many times those malaysia cars just show their passport to the immigration officers in their cars and then just proceed already. did not even need to pass the passport to the officers.. i ask my friends and they say that it is normal practise..

  
  i srly have no idea wad's their intention for that.

• sbst275

  12 Jun 11, 00:06

  Originally posted by AEW5001:

  
  i srly have no idea wad's their intention for that.

  
  Malaysia

• sbst275

  12 Jun 11, 00:32

  better deterrent than the petrol restriction

• mancha

  12 Jun 11, 00:41

  Jam at the Causeway is a problem that is deliberately not solved.

  Its always the same excuse, holiday season, festive season, long weekend, new system, improvement works, again and again like they never learn from the past.?
  I don't think so, they purposely want the jam.

• Junyang700

  12 Jun 11, 00:58

  Originally posted by lemon1974:

  even if SBST go add 30 more buses today also no use... all will still stuck in jam.. and frankly speaking, the scanning system is a joke.... i have see many times those malaysia cars just show their passport to the immigration officers in their cars and then just proceed already. did not even need to pass the passport to the officers.. i ask my friends and they say that it is normal practise..

  Its for Malaysia's tightened security.
  
  The fingerprint process only applies to foreigners. Malaysians exempted from it. Of course Malaysians cars pass through like normal.
  
  And for foreigners, one time fingerprint then after that got record then its OK already.

• sbst275

  12 Jun 11, 09:12

  Originally posted by mancha:

  Jam at the Causeway is a problem that is deliberately not solved.

  Its always the same excuse, holiday season, festive season, long weekend, new system, improvement works, again and again like they never learn from the past.?
  I don't think so, they purposely want the jam.

  
  fingerprint la deh

• sbst275

  12 Jun 11, 09:56

  Round 4 of jam!

• lemon1974

  12 Jun 11, 10:04

  Originally posted by Junyang700:

  Its for Malaysia's tightened security.
  
  The fingerprint process only applies to foreigners. Malaysians exempted from it. Of course Malaysians cars pass through like normal.
  
  And for foreigners, one time fingerprint then after that got record then its OK already.

  then how to ensure that there is NO foreigners inside malaysia cars? those driving malaysia cars no need pass their passport to the officers at all. just flash and go...

  as for the foreigner, they wont know whether you have come in many times  until scan your fingers again mah....

• sbst275

  12 Jun 11, 10:05

  They've nexcode implemented

  but not properly done

• sbst275

  12 Jun 11, 11:35

  Jam again

  but there's proper bus lane today. So I guess take 170 is faster than driving

• AEW5001

  12 Jun 11, 11:39

  how abt tuas 2nd link?

• sbst275

  12 Jun 11, 11:40

  Originally posted by AEW5001:

  how abt tuas 2nd link?

  
  Tuas likely jammed, it's so inland... Skycam can't track it

• sbst275

  12 Jun 11, 12:01

  clearing up riao

• troublemaker2005

  12 Jun 11, 12:07

  i praise malaysia for their innovtiveness in deterring foreigners entry t their country. sg should learn from them.

   

  make it difficult and no fori=eigners will go inot my

• sbst275

  12 Jun 11, 12:18

  lesser M'sian also come in le

• charlize

  12 Jun 11, 14:43

  Originally posted by troublemaker2005:

  i praise malaysia for their innovtiveness in deterring foreigners entry t their country. sg should learn from them.

   

  make it difficult and no fori=eigners will go inot my

  

• sbst275

  12 Jun 11, 18:14

  tis is better than e petrol restriction

  but restaurants are kpkbing cos the tour coaches are skipping Johor for good.

• ditzy

  12 Jun 11, 18:29

  Originally posted by Junyang700:

  Its for Malaysia's tightened security.
  
  The fingerprint process only applies to foreigners. Malaysians exempted from it. Of course Malaysians cars pass through like normal.
  
  And for foreigners, one time fingerprint then after that got record then its OK already.

  I can safely bet none of the fingerprints they collected is actually tagged to the corresponding passport or whatsoever, and records of it will eventually be purged out to make way for new ones. So technically, its pointless, and a waste of time. Creating the jam is deliberate.

• sbst275

  12 Jun 11, 18:37

  Originally posted by ditzy:

  I can safely bet none of the fingerprints they collected is actually tagged to the corresponding passport or whatsoever, and records of it will eventually be purged out to make way for new ones. So technically, its pointless, and a waste of time. Creating the jam is deliberate.

  
  They claim it's kept for 3 mths

• ditzy

  12 Jun 11, 18:48

  Originally posted by sbst275:

  
  They claim it's kept for 3 mths

  3 months based on how many prints taken a day? How come some cars carrying 4 people not all prints are taken, and some even random? Why take index finger print? How many records can they match that with? Do biometric passports take the print on your index finger?

• Jiani

  12 Jun 11, 18:58

  is there a jam now?