Ahok Advises New Governors To Build Park And Ride To ERP For Congestion Handling

JAKARTA - Former Governor of DKI Jakarta Basuki Tjahaha Purnama has a number of suggestions regarding the handling of congestion for the candidate for Governor of DKI Jakarta who will later be elected in the 2024 Pilkada.

This was revealed in a video broadcast on his YouTube account, Call Me BTP.

"I hope that anyone who can be trusted to lead Jakarta as governor can certainly think about what I said or not," Ahok said, quoted on Friday, May 3.

Ahok said his views regarding the policy of eradicating congestion were programs that he had arranged when he led Jakarta a few years ago. However, Ahok admitted that he had not been able to implement it.

One of the programs for handling congestion and vehicle restrictions that Ahok considers effective is the provision of parking bags or parks and rides in the middle of the city.

"In the past, my concept was under Monas, which is almost 70 hectares in size, it builds an underground parking lot. So that vehicles going to Sudirman-Thamrin are so congested, they will park there," said Ahok.

Then, Ahok assessed that the paid road system or electronic road pricing (ERP) needed to be implemented.

The former President Commissioner of Pertamina emphasized that ERP cannot only be considered that the government is taking advantage of private vehicle users. Instead, to regulate traffic decomposition.

"So, ERP does not function to withdraw money from motorized vehicle users, does not. It becomes a tool to control the path that people will pass," Ahok explained.

"When the (traffic) is full, we will certainly push it with ERP, we lower the price, so that it can enter. Which one can we increase so it doesn't come in. That's the goal of ERP," he added.

On the other hand, Ahok assessed that the DKI Provincial Government also needs to provide rental apartments at low rates for young families working in Jakarta. This is intended so that they do not need to use private vehicles every day.

"It is the government that provides cheap monthly rental apartments. Well, with that, maybe on weekends he just returned to his house. He can pay off money from leasing cars, from fuel, from toll roads, he can use it for savings," he added.