{"id":40453,"date":"2026-03-30T19:23:42","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T11:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=40453"},"modified":"2026-03-30T19:23:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T11:23:42","slug":"eight-singapore-taxi-drivers-arrested-over-alleged-bribery-involving-causeway-bus-lane-offences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=40453","title":{"rendered":"Eight Singapore taxi drivers arrested over alleged bribery involving Causeway bus lane offences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Singapore&#8217;s Land Transport Authority said last August that the cross border taxi scheme allows a licensed fleet of up to 200 taxis from each side to ferry passengers between Singapore and Johor Bahru.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Then in December, the transport ministries of Singapore and Malaysia announced plans to increase the quota for licensed cross-border taxis from 200 to 500.<\/p>\n<p>They also said that foreign taxis will be able to drop off passengers anywhere outside their home country. However, they can only pick up passengers at designated pick-up points to prevent them from providing local point-to-point services.<\/p>\n<p>The ministries did not specify when the changes would take effect.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/singapore\/taxi-drivers-arrested-woodlands-jb-causeway-bribery-6025641\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singapore&#8217;s Land Transport Authority said last August that the cross border taxi scheme allows a licensed fleet of up to 200 taxis from each side&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40454,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dam.mediacorp.sg\/image\/upload\/s--ry5n-3im--\/c_crop,h_758,w_1347,x_3,y_107\/c_fill,g_auto,h_676,w_1200\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1\/mediacorp\/cna\/image\/2026\/03\/30\/2_panel_composite.png?itok=X76Fo7x6","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4833,1344,18876,3239,14641,670,2393,11884,7568,22,3346],"class_list":["post-40453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-news-sg-global","tag-alleged","tag-arrested","tag-bribery","tag-bus","tag-causeway","tag-drivers","tag-involving","tag-lane","tag-offences","tag-singapore","tag-taxi","wpcat-2-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}