Record Number Of Passengers 6,606 Per Day During Eid Holiday, KAI Commuter Adds Solo-Yogyakarta KRL Trips

Solo-Yogyakarta KRL. (Photo: Doc. Antara)

JAKARTA - The Solo-Yogyakarta KRL increased the number of trips during the Idul Fitri holiday following the increasing number of users of this transportation mode. The number is 24 KRL trips from the previous 20 KRL trips.

KAI Commuter Vice President Corporate Secretary Anne Purba said the Solo-Yogya KRL operational schedule starts at 05.00-20.17 WIB every day.

Regarding the number of passengers, he said, from Wednesday, May 4 to 19.00 WIB, the volume of KRL users on this route was 17,673 users. This figure is 14 percent higher than the previous day's volume of 15,188 users.

"This figure is also the highest number of users of the Yogyakarta-Solo KRL during this Lebaran transportation period," he said.

Overall, his party noted that during this Lebaran transportation period, the total volume of Yogyakarta-Solo KRL users was 105,677 users or an average of 8,806 passengers/day.

Meanwhile, the increase in the number of users during the Lebaran transportation period also occurred on the Prameks Local Train. As of yesterday afternoon, there were 2,241 users of the Solo-Yogyakarta train route.

"As for the total users of the Prameks Local Train during the Eid transportation period, namely from April 22 to May 3, 2022, there are 22,762 users," he said.

For Prameks Local Trains, every day the KAI Commuter operates eight trips with operating hours starting at 05.15-17.35 WIB.

Regarding the high demand, he said, KAI Commuter provides transportation capacity for Yogyakarta-Solo KRL users of 32,160 users/day. As for the capacity of Prameks Local Train users, KAI Commuter provides a transport capacity of 2,400 users/day.