KULAI, June 16 -- Johor Menteri Besar Datuk Onn Hafiz Ghazi has urged the federal government to expedite the city centre's rapid transit project to relieve traffic in the city centre once the Johor Bahru-Singapore Rapid Transit System (RTS) Link begins operations on January 1 next year.

He said that the short and medium-term measures currently being implemented, including expanding Park & Ride facilities, implementing smart traffic management and reorganising bus, taxi and e-hailing movements at JB Sentral.

"We have to implement these short and medium-term measures as temporary solutions because the main project that can disperse traffic has not yet started.

"There is one project that we still need to focus on and expedite, which is th...