4,500 Dishub Personnel Alerted To Anticipate Congestion For Lebaran Homecoming In West Java

The Department of Transportation (Dishub) of West Java Province deployed 4,500 personnel to help smooth the flow of vehicle movements during Eid Al-Fitr 2023 homecoming. "We fielded a total of 4,500 personnel to assist in smooth transportation, during the homecoming flow," said Head of the West Java Provincial Transportation Service Ir A Koswara MP at the West Java Got Information (Japri) event, quoted by ANTARA, Thursday, April 13.4,500 of these personnel, said Koswara, will be tasked with carrying out traffic flow cuts and traffic engineering management on the homecoming route. "We must also regulate access or exit," he said. Koswara said that large vehicles and freight transport would be prohibited from crossing toll roads and non-toll roads in the West Java region and the ban was effective from April 17, 2023. "So based on a joint decision between the Director General of Land Transportation then Bina Marga and Korlantas, that there will be operational restrictions on freight transport, this is done on toll roads and non-toll roads," he said. He said the ban on passing for freight transportation was carried out three times, namely once during the homecoming flow and twice in the backflow period. Furthermore, he said for the homecoming flow this year, goods vehicles were prohibited from crossing from April 17 to April 17 at 16.00 WIB until April 21, 2023 at 00.00 WIB.

Then, the return flow for the first period starts on April 24 at 00.00 WIB until April 28 at 08.00 WIB and the second period on April 29 at 00.00 WIB until May 2 at 08.00 WIB. "But there are exceptions for the transportation of certain goods. The exception is for vehicles transporting basic materials and fuel," he said.