The Tourism Minister has finally made that announcement. The booths in Second link and Causeway had been fitted with devices which would accept a RM20 per entry payment for Singapore or foreign registered cars. The minister insisted that it would cause no problem in attracting the visitors as he said that Singaporeans would get used to it and that the savings from their trip would more than make up for it.

He even quoted that Singapore has been charging Malaysia registered cars with a S$20 fee. However, he failed to say that even though Singapore had and is still charging Malaysia registered car that amount, it has over the past couple of years been adjusting the number of free days and the hours Malaysia registered cars can be in Singapore.

Apparently, PM Lee has decided that Malaysian shoppers business is greatly wanted. And by giving Malaysian 10 free days not including public holidays and weekends, he is definitely giving more opportunities for Malaysians to spend money in the republic. The previous impact of giving no free days was reasonably big. Afterall, when they started giving free days, Singapore Sales were hitting all time high records.

Shouldn’t the Malaysian government consider further prior to implementing that rulings? The only people suffering from that ruling would be Malaysians living in Malaysia working in Singapore. By implementing that rules, it will further exacerbate the problem by forcing those Malaysians to move to Singapore for good and spend money there.