Jasa Marga Records The Highest 2022 Homecoming Vehicle Volume Record, Exceeding 2019

Jakarta-Cikampek toll road traffic. (ANTARA/HO-Jasa Marga)

KARAWANG - PT Jasa Marga (Persero) Tbk recorded the highest record to serve the highest traffic volume during this year's Eid homecoming season.

Jasa Marga's Corporate Communication and Community Development Group Head, Dwimawan Heru explained that on D-3 Eid or Friday, April 29 105,016 vehicles were leaving Jabotabek for the East (Cirebon, Semarang, Solo, Surabaya, and surrounding areas).

This number increased by 165.5 percent from the normal traffic for the November 2021 period of 39,554 vehicles.

This figure also broke the previous record, during the 2019 Eid homecoming period, Jasa Marga also recorded the highest record of serving traffic volume during the homecoming flow, as many as 103,077 vehicles left Jabotabek heading east via the Trans Java Toll Road which passed via GT Cikampek Utama.

Dwimawan said, during this year's Eid homecoming season, to serve road users optimally, Jasa Marga operates a total of operating substations up to twice the normal traffic conditions.

"We are maximizing the capacity of the toll gates to serve the increased traffic volume at the Cikampek Utama Toll Gate, which operates a total of 30 transaction lanes and adds four mobile readers in tandem", he said as quoted by Antara, Saturday, April 30.

According to him, the implementation of the homecoming service with the highest traffic during the Eid holiday cannot be separated from collaboration with the police, the Ministry of Transportation, the Ministry of Public Works and Public Housing, and other relevant stakeholders. (KR-MAK).