For anyone who’s made the drive from Singapore to Johor Bahru and back, you’ll know what it feels like to be stuck in a jam for hours, waiting impatiently as cars slow to a crawl. You’ve probably wondered, “there must be more to life than mindlessly sitting around.”
Well, help has finally arrived. In the form of a web app that tracks traffic at the Causeway and Second Link to provide drivers with live updates on the waiting times at both queues. It also shows up-to-date snapshots from road cameras and charts each day’s progress against that from a week ago, so you can see when the peak periods are and (hopefully) avoid them.
Called Causewayjam.com (obviously), the site was launched last month by Hayden Lak, reports The Straits Times. A Malaysian and Singapore permanent resident with a tech business here, the 35-year-old is no stranger to long commutes. The app was created in a month, using traffic data streamed from Google. Plans to offer downloadable iOS and Android versions are slated for next month.
