Peak Return Flow Of Year-End Holidays Predicted January 3

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JAKARTA - PT Jasa Marga (Persero) Tbk predicts that the peak of the return flow to Jakarta in the context of the Christmas 2020 and New Year 2021 holidays will occur on Sunday January 3, tomorrow.

"(Sementera) The prediction for the number of vehicles returning to Jakarta on that day is 205 thousand vehicles, an increase of 18.5 percent compared to the new normal (traffic) traffic," said Corporate Communication & Community Development Group Head Dwimawan Heru in Jakarta. , reported by Antara, Saturday, January 2.

According to Heru, the prediction figure is the cumulative traffic that is estimated to go to Jakarta at several toll gates (GT) barrier / main, namely Cikupa GT (West direction), Ciawi GT (South direction) and Cikampek Utama GT & Main Kalihurip GT (East direction). .

"The prediction from the East reaches 56.4 percent of the total traffic. Meanwhile, from the West it is 21.2 percent and from the South it is 22.4 percent," he said.

Jasa Marga recorded a total of 1.2 million vehicles leaving Jakarta during the nine days of Christmas and New Year holidays, or from Wednesday 23 December 2020 to Thursday 31 December 2020.

Meanwhile, for vehicles bound for Jakarta in the same nine-day period, Jasa Marga recorded a total of 1.1 million vehicles. The traffic leaving or heading to Jakarta is the cumulative traffic flow from the four GT barriers that have been previously mentioned.

Seeing this, there are still around 137 thousand vehicles that have not returned to Jakarta. This number is also predicted to increase with traffic leaving Jakarta in the period Friday, January 1 to Sunday January 3, so that the prediction for the peak of return flow to Jakarta on Sunday, January 3, reaches 205 thousand vehicles.

In order to anticipate potential congestion on toll roads, Jasa Marga appealed to road users to arrange a return trip time to Jakarta and asked road users to cooperate to avoid going home together on Sunday, January 3, 2021, which is predicted to be the peak of backflow for the Christmas and Yearly holidays. New.

Jasa Marga continues to coordinate with the Police to implement traffic engineering, such as contraflow and the placement of officers in overcrowded locations.

The implementation of contraflow on backflow, among others, is to avoid the congestion of the two-traffic confluence of the Cipularang Toll Road and the Jakarta-Cikampek Toll Road towards Jakarta at Km 66 as well as the congestion ahead of access in and out of the Km 62 and Km 52 rest areas.

Jasa Marga also ensures that work projects on toll roads that have the potential to disrupt lanes are temporarily halted, including work on equipment mobilization.