19 Jabodebek LRT Trainsets Completed Roller Fugitive Care

The wheel treatment for 19 trainsets or a series of Jabodebek LRT trains has been completed. The maintenance was carried out due to the aus wheel in October last year.

The Manager of Public Relations of the Jabodebek LRT, Mahendro Trang Bawono, said that the wheelbut treatment had been completed as of January 14.

"It's finished (wheeled nurse), 19 trainsets," he told VOI, Wednesday, January 17.

Mahendro explained that out of a total of 31 Jabodebek LRT trainsets, currently operating there are 16 trainsets. Then, there are 7 reserve trainsets that are ready to operate.

In addition, Mahendro said there were two trainsets that were still undergoing the repair process at PT INKA after the accident that occurred in October 2021.

"For those operated, there are still 16 trainsets now. There are 7 trainsets in reserve. There are still 2 trainsets under construction at INKA," he explained.

Mahendro also revealed that there are 6 Jabodebek LRT trainsets that are undergoing treatment. However, he emphasized that it was not because of the aus wheel.

"The 6 are undergoing routine maintenance, not because of the aus wheels," he said.

Previously, the Minister of Transportation Budi Karya Sumadi said that his party together with the operator would change the wheels of the Jabodebek LRT. This change of wheels is a medium-term plan prepared related to the problem of the Aus wheel experienced by the Jabodebek LRT.

For your information, the problem of aus conditions on the Jabodebek LRT wheel has been handled. You do this by dissolving wheels and smoothing surface profiles and giving lubricant liquid on the Jabodebek LRT rail.

"But in the medium term we will change wheels and also repair rails," he said after a Working Meeting with Commission V DPR RI, at the DPR Building, Parliament Complex, Senayan, Jakarta, Tuesday, November 21.