I believe most recent ST buyers bought here instead of nusajaya area is bcos of d EDL direct to woodlands custom. Agree?
i think so.
but i can see prob in future soon for that EXL....
1) surrounding tamans too many, all the mature tamans at tebrau (molek, pelangi indah, desa tebrau, johor jaya, ulu tiram, desa cermelang, daya, setia indah, mount austin, adda height, data oon, setia eco cascadia etc.. all will be using the highway to city areas/sg), permas area (permas, megah riah, senibong cove, bandar seri alam etc...), sentosa area (pelangi, seri tebrau, sentosa, stulang laut etc) all will be using the highway...
now a lot of new houses still continue to launch at these area, and yet to finish construction yet.. i can say personal experience, morning time (6am to 8am) going down to town/sg via EDL the traffic is already very heavy, alot of road users hogging the road, includes motorcylist, basically two lanes used by motors, one lane left for car that's the normal situation now... ideally from setia tropika to sg, correct 10mins, but in real, 10mins is difficult... due to the heavy traffic now... during peak hours, a lot of lorries etc also using the highway to go in sg...
now during certain day which traffic is even heavier one such as friday, u can see long queue to go in sg built up...
if you are not exit from sg to EXL, or instead go via pelangi that entrance, (behind stulang laut), it is terrible during peak hour (jam + long waiting traffic light) minimum (i am talking abt minimum) 10 to 15mins before you can even exit to EXL....
2) To add on, due to the lousy design of the highway, merging road from taman to highway main road, i can say it is bloodly dangerous, such as exit to bandaraya are merging with pelangi exit to sg, since car queue to sg is long, during the peak hour timing, u can see the queue had been blocking ppl who want to exit to bandaraya on the left... while pelangi exit ppl to sg trying to cut in to main lanes to sg... which cause traffic jam...
now already jam not to say abt in future..EXL the highway due to the land is limited, you can see the lanes is narrow, and drive path for merging is combined and short which cause a lot of dangerous.. at pandan exit same prob happened as well...
3) north south highway leading to setia tropika especially during knock off timing also heavy traffic, so it slow down a lot as well... 10mins again is ideal time providing no car.... but due to the lousy design of highway, i can forsee in long it will face similar prob tebrau 'highway' currently to become sloway soon... last friday i can see a lot of more ppl probably going hometown KL etc, you can see jam built much earlier even before passing pandan exit already... in long run especially during holiday period, because EXL link to north south highway..you will likely to see more and more jam...
4) talking abt tebrau or even kempas area, to go any other area of johor the fastest way is to go via pasir gudang highway, but that's the "highway" famous for jam even during weekend like sunday... so accessibility to other areas of johor i can say is quite bad...you will definitely much much more time as expected...
5) traffic lights around the area also a lot... which contribute to the increase of travel time too..
6) kempas or tebrau are not within the development of iskandar project despite they are within the iskandar area... focus you can see is at nusajaya, in terms of property appreciation i can say it is quite limited...
7) kempas is known as locals (Bxxx) community, up to personal preference on this..
Compare to new development at nusajaya, i would rather invest at nusajaya area which tranport is convenient link to all major highways, equal distance from both 1st link and 2nd link... (have a choice to avoid jam at 1st link), travel time must lesser even from 1st link (from CIQ to nusajaya area such as bukit indah/horizon hill) via danga bay highway and coastal highway, 10min++ even during peak hour evening knock off, and thanks to the nice design and wider and more comfortable road of coastal highway), it is safer and totally no jam (at least as of now, nobody will know the situation in future, but i can say due to the better design of the highway, jam also won't be jialat like EXL)...
i am very sure it is much faster to go nusajaya from 1st link even compare to EXL to tropkia during peak hour...(personal experience)