With the Chinese New Year long weekend approaching, Singapore’s Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) has advised travellers to expect heavy traffic at the Singapore-Malaysia land border.
Those who are clearing immigration by car may have to wait for up to three hours, ICA said in a travel advisory.
ICA said traffic has already been building up, with the authority seeing a trend of more travellers using the land checkpoints over the long weekends in January.
“In the recent weekend from Jan 26 to 28, there was continuous heavy traffic at the land checkpoints, with more than 1.37 million crossings (close to 458,000 crossings daily),” said the immigration authority.
“This was an increase of close to 14 per cent in daily average crossings when compared to the New Year long weekend period (402,000 crossings daily).”
This year’s Chinese New Year falls on Jan 10, a Saturday.
ICA said it expects “very heavy traffic” at both Woodlands and Tuas checkpoints in the lead-up to and during the holiday period from Feb 8 to Feb 13.ICA warned travellers not to bring in prohibited items such as firecrackers, “Pop-Pop” weapons, electronic cigarettes and vaporisers
