MTI: Addition Of New Train Stations For Fast Trains Is Not Effective

ASH (intermediate dock photo)

JAKARTA - The Indonesian Transportation Society (MTI) has opened a sura regarding the plan to add an OWN train station in the Kopi area, Bandung, West Java. MTI assessed that this plan would not be effective.

The General Chairperson of MTI, Tory Damantoro, said that the more stations that are traversed, the faster train services will not be effective. Meanwhile, what is relied on for this transportation mode is the speed of travel time.

The fast train is the mainstay, which is fast. The more stations will slow down, the acceleration will also stop," he said in the 2023 MTI Year End Note, in Jakarta, Wednesday, December 27.

According to Tony, the government is better off building urban railway infrastructure in the Bandung area than building a new high-speed train station in Kopo.

The infrastructure in question is building an electability of the railway system and also building a double-double track. Thus, railways in the Bandung area will be the same as KRL.

"That's what we encourage because it's more accelerated than adding a new station station with adjacent distances which then reduces the speed of the high-speed train which is the main feature of the high-speed train feature," he said.

Meanwhile, Secretary of the MTI Road and Railway Transportation Forum David Tjahjana said the addition of a high-speed train station in Kopo risks making telephonesh services ineffective. The reason is, the location where the new station will be built is adjacent to the Padalarang station.

"Kopo is too close to Padalarang. So maybe the operating pattern must be changed. Because if there is a station close together, it (speed train) will not be effective," said David.

Previously, the Director General of Railways at the Ministry of Transportation (Kemenhub) Risal Wasal said that his party would review the proposal to add a quick train station in the Kopo area, Bandung.

Furthermore, Risal said, the proposal for additional stations needs to be studied in depth because there are many elements that must be considered. Starting from distance to travel time.

"There are proposals, we need to study. We can't decide like that. We're talking about fast trains, talking about travel time, distance," he said when met at Halim LRT Station, Jakarta, Thursday, December 7.