Vehicle Volume On Palikanci Toll Road Estimated To Increase 409 Percent During Lebaran Homecoming

Illustration (Photo: Doc. ANTARA)

CIREBON - PT Jasa Marga Toll Road Operator (JMTO) estimates that the volume of vehicles on the Palikanci Cirebon Toll Road, West Java, will increase by 409 percent during the 2024 Eid homecoming flow compared to normal days.

PT JMTO Area Manager Ade Rukmana in Cirebon, Tuesday, said a fairly high traffic density occurred on Saturday 6 April or when the peak of the homecoming flow on the toll road. He stated that at that moment, around 123,729 vehicles from Jakarta to Semarang passed on the Palikanci Toll Road.

This means that the volume of traffic will increase by about 6 percent from the realization of the peak of homecoming flow in 2023. "We predict that on the Palikanci Toll Road there will be around 123,729 vehicles at the peak of the homecoming flow. Last year the realization was 116,841 vehicles," he said, quoted from ANTARA, Tuesday, March 26. According to him, the increase in the number of vehicles will also occur during the 2024 Lebaran return flow on the toll road.

From the calculated results, his party estimates that the increase could reach 30 percent. Ade said that when the peak of the backflow later that fell on Wednesday, April 15, there were around 112,321 vehicles from Semarang to Jakarta passing through the Palikanci Toll Road. "This number is expected to increase, because the total number of vehicles passing at the peak of Lebaran's backflow last year was recorded at 86,216 vehicles," he said.. As for the backflow, it will be implemented from April 12-14, 2024. If no one way is applied, it will be difficult. Because, the number of vehicles crossing this toll road is very much, he said.

He added that traffic arrangements were also implemented to unravel the density of vehicles at the KM 207 Rest Area of the Palikanci Toll Road.

"When entering, maybe at the rest area the vehicle turns to the right and is directed back, turn it around first so that the reservoir is longer," he said. If it's still like that, it will open and close later," he said.