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At least 4,400 sold on first day; bulk of tickets for first 30 days still available: MTI

At least 4,400 bus tickets for quarantine-free land travel between Singapore and Johor Baru were snapped up yesterday, the first day they went on sale.

Three quarters of the tickets sold were for journeys from here to Malaysia, while the rest were for trips in the other directions, the Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) said in response to queries.

Demand for the tickets was high, with both service providers for the upcoming land vaccinated travel lane (VTL) between Singapore and Malaysia experiencing high Web traffic throughout the day.  But the bulk of tickets for the first 30 days are still available for sale, MTI said yesterday evening.

Both the websites for Singapore bus company Transfer and Malaysia bus company Handal Indah, also known as Causeway Link, apparently could not keep up with demand as some users reported issues accessing the companies' booking systems despite long wait.


Part of an article found in today's The New Paper