Here’s how the Johor-Singapore Causeway evolved over 100 years

Today, it has six lanes and a railway track, and is one of the busiest land border crossings in the world.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.

A ferry boat at the Johor jetty. PHOTO: ARSHAK C. GALSTAUN COLLECTION, COURTESY OF NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF SINGAPORE The Straits Settlements government formally approved the project in 1919. Construction was done by another British engineering firm, Messrs Topham, Jones & Railton of London, which had successfully carried out several major public projects in Singapore, including King’s Dock at Keppel Harbour and Empire Dock at Tanjong Pagar. Neither of these structures remains today.

The lock channel and lifting bridge were a key solution to a problem: the differences in water levels. Advances in shipbuilding and changes in shipping routes also meant that many vessels no longer sailed through the Johor Strait, which was never a popular route for marine traffic except for smaller vessels because of its shallow waters, he says.

But the most significant move was between 1974 and 1976, when the Causeway was expanded from three to six lanes. Let’s take a look.It was expected to handle 40,000 people a day by 1982, as the then Public Works Department reported. The jams eased slightly but the days of crawling traffic were not over. Apart from widening, more had to be done.

In October 2003, Datuk Seri Abdullah Badawi succeeded Dr Mahathir as prime minister. Then PM Abdullah visited Singapore in January 2004 and paved the way for a resolution of the issue. Work on the half-bridge was suspended in February 2004.

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