JAKARTA - The flood that inundated the red light intersection area in Puri Kembangan, West Jakarta, Tuesday, resulted in traffic jams from various directions.
ANTARA's monitoring at the location at 11.00 WIB, the traffic flow from Cengkareng to Kembangan and vice versa was jammed until it was dense.
The flood of 60-80 centimeters (cm) made a number of vehicles stuck under the toll road.
In addition, hundreds of motorbikes who dared to break through the flood ended up striking until they piled up on the edge of the Outer Ring Road towards Cengkareng. This condition made the traffic flow on Kembangan Raya Road and Outer Ring Road severely jammed.
The congestion was observed to be dense starting at 09.00 WIB, when the volume of vehicles increased in the midst of the flooded road conditions. There was no doubt that the vehicle horns were intertwined. The Senggolan between the vehicles and the verbal arguments between the drivers were inevitable.
This is caused by many two-wheelers trying to turn around to find alternative routes in the middle of the dense traffic crawling.
Dozens of joint officers from the West Jakarta Metro Police Satlantas and the West Jakarta Transportation Service were overwhelmed by managing traffic.
A package courier named Faqih admitted to being stuck in traffic from the direction of the Mayor of Jakbar to Cengkareng.
"It's been half an hour from behind (pointing to the Mayor). It's really crowded. It's going to deliver a package to Cengkareng, so it's late," said Faqih, who was stuck under the toll, because he hesitated to break through the flood.
Faqih finally had to break through with hundreds of other vehicles, after being directed by police officers.
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