Beware Of The Leaning Bridge In Palopo, The Joint Team Holds Traffic Engineering

The Transportation Agency of the South Sulawesi Provincial Government and the Palopo and Luwu City Governments inspected the condition of the cracked and tilted bridge in Palopo. (ANTARA/HO-Dishub South Sulawesi)

JAKARTA - Joint officers from the South Sulawesi Transportation Agency, the Palopo and Luwu Regency Transportation Offices, the Regional Transportation Management Center for Region XIX, and the police are trying to unravel the traffic jam due to the cracked and tilted bridge connecting Palopo and Luwu.

They also recently held a coordination meeting for the preparation of Traffic Engineering Management (MRLL) to divert traffic from the damaged bridge.

Head of the South Sulawesi Transportation Service, Muh Arafah, in his statement in Makassar, Wednesday, November 10, said that there were several main points that became the agreement of the results of the coordination meeting.

Among them, alternative route II that connects the Karetan Market, Tombang, Padan Alipan and vice versa (two lanes) is intended for four-wheeled vehicles of small size and tonnage.

Furthermore, alternative route I, which connects the Maroanging-Salutete-Capkar Health Center and vice versa, will apply an open and close system starting today. The lane is specifically intended for goods transport vehicles with a maximum tonnage of eight tons.

Meanwhile, for fuel tank vehicles and LPG, they will be specially escorted as long as this is necessary.

"We are holding a coordination meeting with stakeholders (stakeholders) to arrange traffic engineering so that congestion does not occur," he said.

Arafah explained that the traffic engineering was arranged to facilitate the flow of vehicles from and to Palopo and Luwu after the bridge connecting the two areas was tilted or damaged and could not be passed by vehicles.

"The goal is to avoid commotion between fellow road users who use alternative routes, as has happened before," Arafah explained, as quoted by Antara.

Previously, the bridge which was the main access link connecting Palopo and Luwu, North Luwu and East Luwu regencies had cracked and tilted so that vehicles could not pass since Sunday (7/11/2021) night.

As a result, motorists look for narrow rat lanes so that vehicles are stuck in traffic for tens of hours.