How long the drive to Woodlands and Tuas takes now, and LTA’s live cameras from the expressway to the bridge, a new picture every minute. Plus the ringgit, Johor’s petrol and what you need before you drive across.
⏳ Getting LTA’s travel times…
⏳ Getting LTA’s cameras…
🌉 Woodlands · 🌁 Tuas · 💱 Ringgit and petrol · 🧾 Before you go
⏳ Getting LTA’s cameras…
Tap a picture for the full size. The pictures go from Singapore out: the expressway to the checkpoint, the checkpoint, then the crossing. Each says when LTA took it; one more than 15 minutes old is marked ⚠️.
⏳ Getting the ringgit…
Most days the worst is the weekday rush: into Singapore in the early morning, back to Johor in the evening, with the thousands who live in Johor and work here. For a day trip to JB, Friday evening and Saturday morning going out, and Sunday afternoon and evening coming back, are the slowest. And the long weekends and school holidays:
| Coming up | Out to Johor | Back to Singapore |
|---|---|---|
| Deepavali Sat 7 Nov – Mon 9 Nov | Fri 6 Nov evening | Mon 9 Nov |
| Year-end school holidays 🎒 Sat 21 Nov – Sun 3 Jan | Fri 20 Nov evening | Sun 3 Jan |
| Christmas Day Fri 25 Dec – Sun 27 Dec | Thu 24 Dec evening | Sun 27 Dec |
| New Year’s Day Fri 1 Jan – Sun 3 Jan | Thu 31 Dec evening | Sun 3 Jan |
Singapore’s long weekends (MOM’s public holidays) and MOE’s school holidays 🎒 in the next two months. ICA expects heavy traffic at both checkpoints around them and usually says so a few days before: the evening before and the last day are when everyone else goes and comes back. Malaysia’s and Johor’s own holidays bring the jams the other way.
Singapore’s tolls, the ¾ tank rule and the QR code checked on lta.gov.sg, customs.gov.sg and ica.gov.sg on 2 November 2026; Malaysia’s VEP rules from JPJ as reported. Malaysia’s own charges, tolls and rules are JPJ’s and APAD’s: check with them before a first trip.
The cameras are LTA’s, straight from data.gov.sg. The travel times, the ringgit and Malaysia’s pump prices come from carma.sg, Liddat’s sister site for cars: it reads LTA DataMall’s expressway travel times (which need a key it has) and keeps their quickest and usual times, Malaysia’s weekly prices from data.gov.my and the day’s exchange rate, and shares them with this page and Petrol prices. All the expressways are on its Singapore traffic now.
Carma itself is a used-car search: every car for sale on sgcarmart, Carousell, Motorist and Carro in one place, each with a score for how good a deal it is and what it really costs a month (depreciation, road tax and loan interest), plus COE results and car tools like road tax.
The top of this page says how long the BKE to Woodlands Checkpoint and the AYE to Tuas Checkpoint take right now, by LTA’s estimate from its road sensors, against the same drive on a clear road: one green car is moving, two orange cars slow, three red cars jammed. Below that are LTA’s cameras on the BKE, at Woodlands Checkpoint and on the Causeway itself, and on the AYE, at Tuas Checkpoint and on the Second Link, each a minute or so old. A queue on the BKE or the AYE camera means the jam to leave Singapore is backed up past the checkpoint. The page gets new times and pictures every minute while it’s open.
No one publishes a live time for that: the queue into Singapore is on the Causeway and the Second Link and in Johor, and LTA’s sensors stop at the checkpoints, while Malaysia publishes no travel times. Apps that show one estimate it from phones’ locations. Look at the Causeway and Second Link cameras on this page, which show the lanes coming in, and the busy days below.
The drive on the expressway up to the checkpoint: the whole BKE from the PIE to Woodlands Centre, and the AYE from Pioneer Circus to Tuas Checkpoint, added up from LTA’s estimate for each stretch. Not the wait at Singapore’s immigration, on the bridge or at Malaysia’s side. When the queue for the checkpoint backs up onto the expressway, the minutes go up with it. The usual time for each hour of each day is learnt from LTA’s readings as they come in, from 2 November 2026.
Woodlands is the short way to JB’s city centre, and it’s where most cars, motorcycles and buses go, so it jams first. Tuas, by the Second Link, is a longer drive on both sides but usually moves faster, and it suits Johor’s west: Puteri Harbour, Legoland, Iskandar Puteri and the expressway north. Compare the two sets of cameras here before you choose. Tuas costs more: S$2.10 each way for a car, against S$0.80 out by Woodlands.
On Singapore’s side, a car pays S$0.80 to leave by Woodlands and nothing to come back in, and S$2.10 each way at Tuas. Taxis pay S$0.40 and S$1.60, buses S$0.60 and S$2.50, and motorcycles nothing. You pay at the immigration booth with a CashCard or CEPAS card. Malaysia charges its own tolls on its side, and a road charge for foreign cars, by Touch ’n Go.
Yes: Malaysia’s Vehicle Entry Permit, with its RFID tag on the car linked to a Touch ’n Go eWallet. You register on JPJ’s VEP site and collect the tag. A Singapore car without one has been fined RM300 since July 2025, and can’t leave Malaysia until it’s registered and the fine is paid.
No. RON 95 is only for Malaysian-registered vehicles; a foreign car, a Singapore one included, has to buy RON 97 (or diesel). Malaysia’s pump prices are set each week: this page shows this week’s, and what they come to in Singapore dollars.
A Singapore-registered vehicle leaving Singapore by land must have its fuel tank at least three-quarters full, petrol, diesel or CNG (both tanks, for a petrol-CNG car). Singapore Customs checks at Woodlands and Tuas; a car that isn’t has to U-turn, and the driver can be fined up to S$500 or charged in court.
No: Malaysia has let Singapore citizens off its Digital Arrival Card (MDAC) since 1 January 2024. Other passport holders may need it; check with Malaysia’s Immigration Department.
The Johor Bahru–Singapore RTS Link, from Bukit Chagar in JB to Woodlands North, is to start carrying passengers in February 2027, Malaysia’s Transport Ministry said in October 2026; the exact date will be announced once LTA and Malaysia’s APAD have approved it. Until then, it’s the Causeway or the Second Link.
No. There’s nothing to type on this page: it fetches LTA’s pictures from data.gov.sg and the travel times, ringgit and pump prices from carma.sg, and that’s all.
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