Tips for traveling in/out to Johor Bahru (Johor Baru, Johore Bahru, Johor Baharu)

November 17th, 2008 admin

 Here are some tips that you can find helpful when traveling in/out from Johor Bahru (Johor Baru, Johore Bahru, Johor Baharu)

Woodlands Custom (For Non-Drivers)
1. If you are a Singaporean and you are eligible to use the automated thumbprint clearance, ALL the gates are now eligible for usage, even though only the extreme left lanes (for both departure and arrival from Johor Bahru) are labeled “For Singapore Passports”. This applies for both the incoming and outgoing gates. Yes, start queuing at the gates that most Malaysians with access cards have been using.

Public Transport
1. If you are traveling out from Johor Bahru to Singapore but there is a very long queue for SBS Bus 160/170 or CWLink Buses, try to spot if there are any SMRT Bus 950 making its way to the bus queue. Unlike SBS 160/170 or CWLink (which takes a long boarding time as they only allow boarding at the front door), there is no definite queue for SMRT Bus 950. Neither is there any bus conductor organising the crowd. Case of “free for all”. If you aggressive enough, you can get onto SMRT Bus 950 without queuing.

2. If you are traveling out from Johor Bahru to Singapore, why not pay in Ringgit? For RM0.90 (just for a trip across the causeway), this is cheaper than using your EZLink card to pay in Sing$. SBS and SMRT buses accept Ringgit as bus fee when you board in Johor Bahru.

3. Do not feel like waiting? Singapore-Johor Express (SJE) bus is actually boardable for RM2.50.

4. If you are in a terrible rush to cross the causeway from Johor Bahru (Johor Baru, Johore Bahru, Johor Baharu) to Singapore, some of the blue colour Bus Kilang are available for boarding. You are actually not supposed to board them but because some of these buses pick up workers who does not don a uniform, the bus driver may not question you when you board the bus. At your own risk.

Johor Custom (For non-drivers)
1. If you are a Singaporean traveling to Johor Bahru, try to queue at the extreme left lane at the Johor Bahru custom. This is one of the most defined queue so will prevent the risk of “lane merging” (where 2 lanes merges into 1 lane). In addition, this is the booth that is stationed upfront and the queue is actually shorter if you horizontally align yourself against other queues.

2. If you are a Singaporean traveling out from Johor Bahru, be mindful that there are many available queues further away from the ascending escalator. The normal tendency is for Singaporeans to queue at the nearest booth and jam up the escalator exit. Try to move deeper in and locate the shortest queues.

Driving
1. If you are driving in to Johor Bahru regularly, it makes sense to apply for the touch and go (TnG) card which saves your 30sen per entry.

2. If you do not like aggressive driving, use the Johor Bahru lorry custom when returning to Singapore. This custom opens from 4pm on Weekends and the queue is much more defined. Take the left exit after Plaza Pelangi towards Johor Custom. You live longer with the calm you have at the lorry lane. In addition, your side mirrors are now safe (if you know what I mean).
 
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