safer way of moving around in jb

for those of us who are put off from visiting johor bahru by all the reports on crime involving singaporeans, and those who are afraid that our cars might be driven away or that we might be robbed because our foreign status is a giveaway (by the cars we are driving), there is a safer way to move about in johor bahru and outside of it .... take the public buses.

the johor bahru public buses can take you to the outskirts and to even towns that are further afield like kota tinggi - a 2-hour ride or a slightly shorter ride to ulu tiram. in fact, there are buses plying between the bandar raya and most of the small towns. however, if you just want to shop at city square, take sbs services 160 and 170 or smrt 950 into jb.

today, we took jb's transit link service 123 to permas jaya passing stulang laut and kg bakar batu along the way. we stopped at the jusco, walked around, had lunch at one of the coffee shops and hopped onto service 967 for the return trip to johor bahru town. the adult fare was rm$2.00.

so, for those of you who want to enjoy the cheap and good seafood or malay food like mee rebus at some of the restaurants found along stulang laut, you can take service 123 from the bus-stop outside the post office along jalan ibrahim. some of the better known makan places along stulang laut are the original mee rebus stulang laut, woon kiang restaurant, just behind foon yew high school and the new hong kong restaurant.

(for those of you who drive your car into jb and beyond, one way to deter car thieves is to park the car with the front facing in - facing the kerb or facing the wall in a covered car-park; parked this way, it is very difficult for anyone to tow your car away.)