Flashback #Star50: New chapter in bilateral ties

New crossing: (Right) Hundreds of motorists queueing up to drive across the Second Link when it was opened to traffic on Jan 2, 1998. (Top) The Star’s report on its official opening on April 18, 1998.

IT was a new chapter in the ties between Malaysia and Singapore when the Second Link opened in April 1998.

The bridge was built to ease the traffic snarl at the Malaysia-Singapore Causeway, which began in the 1920s and had been the only land crossing between the two countries then.