The permit uses a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag to track foreign vehicles and check for outstanding fines or traffic offences. First proposed in 2017, the scheme was postponed twice – in 2019 and 2020 – before enforcement finally began this week.
Minutes before the deadline, about 50 officers from Malaysia’s road transport department (JPJ) were seen setting up a roadblock at the Bangunan Sultan Iskandar customs, immigration and quarantine complex in Johor Bahru, according to local media.
Within the first hour of checks, 10 Singapore-registered vehicles were issued summonses, The Straits Times reported.
More than 300,000 people travel across the Johor-Singapore Causeway every day, making it one of the busiest land border crossings in the world.
