Holiday rush leads to highway jams


Tiring wait: A long line of travellers seen at the Padang Besar Immigration, Customs, Quarantine and Security (ICQS) Complex. — Photo from social media

BUTTERWORTH: What would normally have been a five-hour drive from Seremban to Alor Setar took about 15 hours during the long weekend holiday rush.

A computer analyst, who wanted to be known only as Ali, described his family’s balik kampung journey as exhausting.

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