Demak Hit By Floods, Korlantas Polri Prepares Alternative Paths

DOC/Banjir Demak, Central Java/ANTARA PHOTO/Aji Styawan/Spt)

JAKARTA - The Traffic Corps (Korlantas) of the National Police has prepared an alternative route for people who will go home to Central Java. This step was taken as a solution to flooding in the Karanganyar area, Demak.

"For arterial roads, we have prepared almost 98 percent of alternative arterial routes," said Director of Law Enforcement or Dirgakkum Korlantas Polri Brigadier General Raden Slamet of the DPR/MPR building, Senayan, Jakarta, Thursday, March 21.

The Central Java region is the main goal of travelers based on a survey conducted by Korlantas Polri and the Ministry of Transportation (Kemenhub). Around 61.6 million people will go to the area.

In addition, to prevent congestion on toll roads, several traffic schemes will be implemented, namely, oneway and contraflow.

Meanwhile, odd-even is called the last scheme to be implemented if the other two traffic engineering are unable to unravel congestion.

"The last alternative with odd-even is the last alternative that we will do. Hopefully, by applying it on the VCR toll road, it can go down below 0.6 so that homecoming can be comfortable and safe," he said.

In addition, rest areas are also considered. Because, that's where the accumulation of vehicles is most prone to occur.

"The most important thing to anticipate is that conditions in the rest area of the rest area on the toll road have been implemented," said Slamet.