Extra measures to ease traffic on polling day


All going as planned: Comm Kamarul Zaman (left) visiting the early voting centre at Marine Police Region II headquarters in Johor Baru. — THOMAS YONG/The Star

JOHOR BARU: Special travel times and extra personnel are among measures to ease congestion at Johor-Singapore border checkpoints for the twin by-elections on Saturday.

About 200,000 individuals are due to cast their ballots in the Pulai parliamentary and Simpang Jeram by-elections, with a significant number of them returning from Singapore and other states.

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