Facing The Peak Of The Homecoming Flow On April 29, The National Police Changes The One Way And Contraflow Schemes

ILLUSTRATION DOC BETWEEN / Implementation of one way from the direction of Jakarta during Lebaran 2019 homecoming

JAKARTA - The Head of the Traffic Corps of the National Police Inspector General Firman Shantyabudi said that the one-way scheme will be implemented from the Cikarang Utama (Cikatama) Toll Gate (GT) KM 70 to GT Kalikangkung KM 414 which will take place from today until Saturday, April 30, at 08.00 WIB.

This scheme is implemented to break down the density of vehicles at the peak of the homecoming flow which is predicted to take place tonight.

"So in conclusion, we will carry out one way this afternoon until 8 am tomorrow," said Firman to reporters, Friday, April 29.

The community is asked to take advantage of this vulnerable time to return to their hometown. The goal, to prevent the accumulation of vehicles.

"With the calculations we got today by trying to read trends, with the same pattern, people will take advantage of these times," he said.

Meanwhile, the Jakarta-Cikampek toll road segment KM 47 to GT Cikatama KM 70 no longer applies the one way scheme. However, changed to a contraflow scheme.

However, in the contraflow scheme there will be additional lanes used. Where previously only one lane was now added to two.

"According to tonight's plan, contraflow 2 lanes from KM 47 to KM 70, from Cikopo and Bandung there is still access to the flow to the west," said Firman.

Previously, National Police Chief General Listyo Sigit Prabowo said that as many as 211,000 people had not yet crossed the KM 70 Cikampek Utama (Cikatama) Toll Gate. The number was based on data predicted by Jasa Marga.

"Earlier, we saw that there were still predictions of the possibility of around 211,809 travelers who currently have a tendency to go home," said Sigit at KM 70 GT Cikatama.

This figure appears based on the calculation of vehicles that have passed on H-4 Lebaran 2022 with a prediction of the total number of people who will go home.

Where, on D-4 it was recorded that as many as 85 thousand people or travelers had passed the Cikatama GT.

Meanwhile, based on the prediction of the Ministry of Transportation (Kemenhub), the peak of the homecoming flow will occur on April 29. At least 85 million people will return to their respective hometowns.