Even Though It's Odd-even, The Puncak-Cianjur Route Is Super Busy, The Car Can Stop For Tens Of Minutes

JAKARTA - The Puncak-Cianjur route, West Java, in the first week of October, is again congested. Even the long line of vehicles heading towards Bogor continued to lengthen with the speed of the vehicle stopping for tens of minutes.

Reporting from Antara, Sunday, October 3, long lines of vehicles have been seen since morning before noon. The tail of the queue up to Jalan Raya Cipanas along the 4 kilometers did not move for tens of minutes, due to the sharp increase in the volume of vehicles going to tourist attractions.

The odd-even application is still in effect, although along the route, there are still incorrect numbered numbers or are prohibited from crossing because odd numbers apply on Sunday (3/10), mostly with tourist destinations in the Puncak-Cipanas area such as Taman Bunga Nusantara, Botanical Gardens. Cibodas and the camping ground area.

Dozens of officers were alerted at points prone to traffic jams along the route, even before noon the officers had time to engineer the flow by blocking and applying a one-way system to Bogor, in order to anticipate total traffic jams by midday.

The queue of vehicles that had stopped was smooth again after an hour of flow engineering being implemented. Even the long queues began to melt, but the flow engineering was again implemented in the late afternoon, as an effort to anticipate total traffic jams by nightfall.

Cianjur Police Chief, AKBP Doni Hermawan, said to anticipate total traffic jams in the Puncak area, along with the high volume of vehicles for tourist purposes, the peak route will increase again after tourist attractions close. However, throughout the odd-even implementation, only this week, there was a long line of vehicles.

"To anticipate the occurrence of total traffic jams, especially at night on the Puncak Line, we carry out flow engineering, including carrying out a one-way system at night. Various anticipations are still being made, including blocking at points prone to traffic jams," he said.