Hollyday Queues Jam Border Control Posts
By Achong Tanjong

Bandar Seri Begawan - Members of the public visiting neighbouring countries and vice versa during the Chinese New Year holiday are driving behind long queues of vehicles at the border control posts.

They are leaving Brunei or driving into Brunei all the way from Miri and other parts of Sarawak during the week long school holiday in conjunction with the Chinese New 'Year tomorrow, Sunday.

Control posts at Kuala Lurah, Brunei and Tedungan, Limbang, are busy handling the passengers' travel documents, a normal scene during public holidays.

Travellers from Limbang, especially those trapped in the long queue near the Customs, Immigration, motorists who did not follow the queue but simply jumped in. Quarantine (CIQ) project area, voiced their disappointments over some uncivic-minded

The police should monitor the situation for the comfort and pleasurable driving of travellers, they said.

The new CIQ project half a kilometre from the present Limbang CIQ is a new complex that would include five lanes to cope with traffic coming in from Brunei Darussalam and vice-versa.

According to recent the news reports, the RM37.45 million projects under the Ministry of Home Affairs of Malaysia is expected to be completed on January 4, 2008.

Plans are also in the pipeline to erect proper trading places for hawkers and other economic activities in the CIQ. Those squatting by the roadside would be relocated there. -- Courtesy of Borneo Bulletin

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