Congestion Prone During Eid Al-Fitr 2023 Homecoming, Police Expand Teams On The Pantura Line

Illustration of the situation at GT Cikarang Utama during the 2022 Eid homecoming moment. (Between)

CIREBON - Cirebon City Resort Police (Polres), West Java, has increased the number of URI teams on the northern coastal arterial route (Pantura) when entering the Eid al-Fitr 2023 homecoming season, due to the potential for congestion. "Our team personnel will expand in the northern coastal and arterial routes, including security posts, and traffic control posts," said Cirebon City Police Head of Traffic Unit, AKP Triyono Raharja, quoted by ANTARA, Sunday, April 2. Triyono said that at the 2022 Eid homecoming flow, vehicles passing through the arterial route were booming, so that densities occurred in several locations, especially at the intersection. "So Triyono said, departing from last year's homecoming flow experience, his party prioritized arterial routes over toll roads. For that, continued Triyono, the unraveling team from the Cirebon City Police Satlantas was also reproduced, so that when there was a congestion could quickly occur, and it did not cause congestion. "We anticipate the Lebaran 2023 homecoming by preparing a break team both on toll roads and arteries, but more in arteries," he said. In addition to arterial and toll roads, Triyono said, his party also alerted a team of urai in the middle of the city, considering that Cirebon City was the destination for residents from various regions, because many shopping centers. According to him in 2022, his party did not prioritize the inner lanes in the city, and it turned out to be a bottleneck point, so that at this Eid al-Fitr 2023, there would be a large number of URI teams.

"Last year's evaluation in the middle of the city, there were not many break-up teams and last year the middle of the city became a community attack, so there was a traffic jam, for that we prepared a team to break down congestion or congestion in the middle of the city," he said. In addition to the break-up team, said Triyono, his party also coordinated with related agencies, and increased service posts and traffic control posts.