Do something about Causeway gridlock, govt urged

Future plans: Onn Hafiz (third from left) with (from second right) Iskandar Puteri City Council mayor Datuk Mohd Haffiz Ahmad and State housing and local government committee chairman Datuk Mohd Jafni Md Shukor looking at a real estate model during the Greater Johor Baru memorandum of understanding signing ceremony at the Johor Baru City Council. — THOMAS YONG/The Star

JOHOR BARU: It takes only five minutes to drive across that 400m stretch on the Causeway linking Malaysia and Singapore. But for regular commuters, numbering some 150,000 daily, most of them have to wake up at 4am to queue at the border checkpoint by 5am to make it through the traffic gridlock for work or business.

Relating this is none other than Johor Mentri Besar Datuk Onn Hafiz Ghazi, who made an impassioned plea to the Federal Government for a solution to ease the traffic congestion on the Causeway.