H-7 Lebaran Volume Of Homecoming Vehicles Starts To Increase

The volume of homecoming vehicles began to increase on the main Cianjur route, West Java, from morning to night, Monday (25/4). (ANTARA POTO/Ahmad Fikri). (Ahmad Fikri)

CIANJUR - The main route of Cianjur, West Java, has begun to be passed by vehicles with the characteristics of going home, although it is not high enough, but the volume of vehicles increases in the evening and early morning.

According to Antara's observations, from Sunday, April 24 to Monday, April 25, the volume of vehicles with the characteristics of two-wheeled or four-wheeled homecoming, began to increase, especially from morning to evening. Even the volume of homecoming vehicles with two-wheeled groups seems to increase in the early hours of the morning before dawn.

From evening to night, homecoming vehicles that pass are dominated by four-wheeled vehicles with close distances, such as cities/regencies in West Java who don't want to be stuck in traffic at a number of vulnerable points along the main route from Cianjur to Jalan Raya Bandung.

Hundreds of joint officers from the Cianjur Police, Cianjur Kodim 0608, PMI Cianjur, Scouts and the Health Service and the Cianjur Transportation Agency, were alerted at 12 security posts that had been activated starting Monday, to anticipate long queues during peak homecoming flows.

Cianjur Police Chief, AKBP Doni Hermawan, said that entering D-7 the volume of vehicles with the characteristics of going home began to increase crossing the main Cianjur route.

The increase is quite high seen in the morning and evening, where queues of vehicles can be seen at two points prone to traffic jams in Cianjur, he said.

"There are two points prone to traffic jams along the Cianjur homecoming route, Cipanas Market and Ciranjang Market on the Cianjur-Bandung highway. However, at these two points, we have prepared members and a special team to clear the queues, today the queues have started to appear at both points ," he said.

His party predicts that the peak of the homecoming flow that crosses the Cianjur main route will occur on D-4 Eid, where odd-even and contra-flow applications are implemented on toll roads, so a number of engineering will be carried out in coordination with the Bogor Resort Police.

"We have prepared a number of techniques, including directing travelers to cross alternative routes when there is a queue. This includes implementing a one-way system to Bandung or Bogor and Sukabumi when there are long queues," he said.