Transjakarta Please Bus Route Towards Soetta Airport Reduce Motorcycle Users

Illustration of Transjakarta buses (ANTARA)

JAKARTA - Director of Operations and Safety of PT Transjakarta Daud Joseph hopes that Transjakarta bus services to Soekarno-Hatta Airport reduce the number of motorcycle users who are mobile in Jakarta every day. Based on the results of a Transjakarta survey to customers who use services from Kalideres Terminal to Soetta during the trial period, the majority of them previously worked using motorbikes. "Usually they used before this service were motorbikes. That is, when they switched to this service it was hoped that the use of motorbikes would be much reduced," Joseph told reporters, Wednesday, July 19. Still from the survey results, Transjakarta noted that bus service customers to Soetta were airport workers, ranging from cargo terminal employees, restaurant employees, and Soetta Airport warehousing workers. However, it turns out that there were still airplane passengers using such services. Although, Joseph acknowledged, the number was not large and they did not use this service every day. "Is there any passengers taking this service? It looks like there is, from the goods and suitcases being carried. But is it something that is consistent? It looks like if used twice, maybe yes, and we can't prevent that," explained Joseph. "But if airport passengers are usually not commuting, not every day they use it. It is known that TransJakarta operates 10 low-dem (low entry) buses for the Soekarno Hatta-Terminal Kalideres Airport route with passenger transport capacity reaching 2,500 people every day.

With a capacity of one bus of 60 passengers, in a day the TransJakarta bus bound for Soekarno-Hatta Airport (Soetta) goes to Kalideres Terminal and vice versa can carry up to 2,500 passengers. The Transjakarta bus route from Kalideres Terminal to Soetta Airport starts operating with a headway every 20 minutes from 06.00 WIB to 09.00 WIB in the morning and at 18.00 WIB to 21.00 WIB at night. The average travel time from Kalideres to Soetta Airport is 45 minutes for one trip.