Rest Area Jakarta-Cikampek Toll Road KM 57 Will Be Unclosed If Over Load

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The Karawang Regency Police will implement an open and close area of KM 57 of the Jakarta-Cikampek Toll Road if the vehicle's capacity parked in the rest area is already overloaded during the Christmas and New Year holidays.

"We will also see the situation, if the conditions are overloaded and possible, we will open and close the rest area," said Karawang Police Chief, AKP Laode Habibi Ade Jama, in Karawang, quoted from Antara, Sunday, December 25.

He conveyed that his staff was ready to carry out their duties as well as possible to support the 2022 Lodaya Candle Operation activities.

To overcome congestion on the Jakarta-Cikampek toll road, especially in the Karawang area, he said that contraflow engineering would be carried out starting from KM 65 to KM 47.

The engineering of contraflow traffic is carried out if necessary, in accordance with the direction of the West Java Police Dirlantas.

Roni, a resident of Tanjung Priok, North Jakarta, who will vacation in the Semarang area, admitted that he used rest areas to rest while eating snacks.

"The journey is still long, so you have to rest first, have coffee," he said, when met at the KM 57 rest area of the Jakarta-Cikampek toll road.

He admitted that he filled the Christmas and New Year holidays this time to vacation in his hometown while staying in touch with his family and relatives in the village.

Meanwhile, the flow of traffic on the Jakarta-Cikampek toll road on Saturday afternoon was quite crowded. Meanwhile, previously or on Saturday morning there was a congestion, until contraflow engineering was carried out.

This Christmas and New Year's holiday season PT Jasa Marga (Persero) Tbk through its subsidiary PT Jasamarga South Japek (JJS) will functionally operate the 8.5 kilometer South Jakarta-Cikampek (Japek) II Toll Road Segmen Sadang-Kutanegara.

PT JJS has prepared a functional route in the period 23 December 2022 to 3 January 2023 which was opened based on police discretion.

President Director of PT Jasamarga South Japek Charles Lendra in his statement said that the functional-operating Japek II Segmen Sadang-Kutanegara Toll Road will help unravel the density of vehicle traffic volume on the Jakarta-Cikampek Toll Road, precisely in the Dawuan KM 66 Flats (SS) which is a traffic meeting point from Bandung that passes through the Cipularang Toll Road, as well as traffic flow from the Trans Java direction that passes the Jakarta-Cikampek Toll Road.

In addition, another consideration is the condition of the provincial road (industrial road) that will be passed by road users approximately 15 kilometers to East Karawang or 22 kilometers long to West Karawang after passing this functional route.

"On the basis of consideration of this, we will provide recommendations to the police as a basis for discretion to open this functional line," Charles said.

Charles added that the South Japek II Functional Toll Road of the Sadang-Kutanegara segment can only be passed by class I non-bus vehicles with a maximum speed of 60 km/hour.

If opened, road users from the direction of Bandung can enter the South Japek II Functional Toll Road in the Sadang-Kutanegara Segment via KM 77 + 100 of the Cipularang Toll Road towards Jakarta and exit via the Kutanegara Toll Gate (GT) to continue the journey through Provincial Road (Industri Street).

Furthermore, to get to Jakarta, road users can re-enter the Jakarta-Cikampek Toll Road via GT Karawang Timur 1 or GT Karawang Barat 1.

At GT Kutanegara, road users will still pay the toll tariff for the Cipularang Toll Road and Padalarang-Cileunyi Toll Road (Padaleunyi) if they travel from toll gates on the Padaleunyi Toll Road, with the same rate if the user makes a way out through the Cipularang Toll Road.