What do you do when you can’t bring Malaysian bak kwa into Singapore? You bring yourself to the Malaysian bak kwa of course — but take heed of the 430,000 travellers expected to journey across the borders daily this Chinese New Year period.
With the Lunar New Year holiday coming up on Feb 8, the Immigration & Checkpoints Authority (ICA) has seen it fit to advise travellers of the peak traffic periods. Look yonder and plan ahead — heavy departure traffic is expected from Feb 4 to Feb 7, while arrival traffic is expected to be particularly heavy from Feb 9 to Feb 14. Hours-long delays are to be expected at both the Woodlands and Tuas checkpoints of course when there’s close to half a million travellers.
ICA has also reminded travellers to not be dumbasses and remember to bring valid passports when they come up to the checkpoints. It seems that their most hated case is when Singaporeans present passports which were previously reported as lost, which is an offence to use.
“Such cases will lead to delays and cause inconvenience to the passport holders as well as other checkpoints users,” they wrote.
The delays have been particularly frustrating over the last holiday season, where commuters found themselves stuck in traffic for hours due to heightened security measures at the Singapore checkpoints.
