This is one of the factors.......there is simply no place at the
Johor Bahru Checkpoint for the Johor-bound buses to park and
conduct customs inspections
......another factor being Malaysian bureaucracy.......they check
the foreign and SG bus passengers' and car drivers' passports very
slowly.........using old coms..........
My brother even see the Msian officials still using Windows 98 to
do official tasks at JB checkpoint..............and I even see them
using computers that are damaged or became old..............
The third factor, being too much buses on sv170, CW1 and too much
Bas Kilang (now knowns as Bas Perkerja, the "workers' bus"; blue in
colour).....honestly speaking.....JB roads can't cope with too much
buses.............so does the JB CIQ...............
And the fourth factor being too much trucks.........they are much
longer n slower than buses........and so easily causing
jams.........
The last factor is, the KTM railway between M'sia and SG being
terribly underused. It could have the potential to ease the SG-JB
causeway jams and make passengers to not to rely too much on buses.
But too bad, the KTM trains are always late, their coaches too old,
have some safety problems, and the train runs not frequent (I have
noted that they run [b]into and out[b] of SG at the frequency of
2-3hrs)..............and yeah they are a bit too "expensive"
This has caused them to rely on buses, leading the need for more
buses, and thus causing jams near the CIQs............
