Operators flag issues including time constraints and difficulty of getting accurate passenger information. Read more at straitstimes.com.
to the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority could be difficult to implement, and might affect business.
No-boarding directives are another plan proposed in the Bill. If passed, ICA could issue NBDs to transport operators to bar undesirable individuals from boarding, instead of these persons being turned back only upon arrival in Singapore.Close to 100,000 people cross the Woodlands Checkpoint by bus daily, and the majority are Malaysian workers, said ICA in May this year. It did not provide specific breakdowns for public and private buses.
Said Mr Soh, who has been operating cross-border buses for over a decade: “For example, there are walk-in customers who buy tickets at 10am for a 10.30am bus... we’ll have to create a system that records their details too.”A spokesman for bus operator Star Qistna said bus terminals can also send passenger information but ICA would need to discuss with Malaysia’s terminal managements as some of them are “extremely outdated”.
A 48-year-old manager at local bus operator Luxury Coach Service, who wanted to be known as Mr Lee, said: “Some passengers are not cooperative in giving their information, with some citing the Personal Data Protection Act.”
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