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The land crossings between Singapore and Malaysia were jam packed with vehicles over the first weekend of April 2023.
The situation at the Tuas Second Link on the Malaysia half saw traffic come to a complete standstill.
Motorists and passengers resorted to getting out of their vehicles to walk on the second link.
Motorists returning to Singapore from Johor Bahru were stuck for as long as seven hours, social media posts by those affected said.
Shin Min Daily News reported on the jam, which was on the Malaysia half of the land crossing.
The long lines of vehicles trying to get into Singapore already started in the afternoon and persisted into the night and early hours of the next morning.
Photos online showed the tailback stretched all the way from Malaysia’s Sultan Abu Bakar Immigration, Customs, Quarantine and Security Complex to the Shell rest and service area 1.4km behind.
Travelling for about half a kilometre from the Shell station to the Touch 'n Go toll plaza gantry took about five hours from about 3:30pm in the afternoon to 8:30pm in the evening.
According to Shin Min, the traffic situation was normal on the Singapore half of land crossing.
A 56-year-old Singaporean woman who went to Malaysia with her family for Qing Ming on Saturday night, and drove back to Singapore on Sunday afternoon, said she reached the Second Link at about 2pm.
She said: "I thought I could avoid traffic jams by going out early, but it was still the same. I was stuck in the traffic queue for nearly five hours and still couldn't pass the customs."
She told her younger sister to stay in Johor Bahru for an extra night.
The Woodlands Checkpoint was also reportedly very crowded.
A photo shared by a resident at one of the condominiums overlooking the Causeway showed the jam going in and out of Johor Bahru to be very bad.
Motorists and passengers who need to break fast in the evenings in this month of Ramadan have been advised to pack food and drinks with them in the coming days and weeks if they are going to cross the land crossings between Singapore and Malaysia.
Top photos via Malaysia-Singapore Border Crossers & Paul Woodhouse