Until D-4 Lebaran 2024, 807,510 Vehicles Recorded Leave Jabotabek

Cikampek Utama Toll Gate (ANTARA/HO-Jasa Marga)

JAKARTA - PT Jasa Marga (Persero) Tbk recorded 807,510 vehicles leaving Jakarta, Bogor, Tangerang, and Bekasi (Jabotabek) on D-7 to D-4 Eid Al-Fitr 1445H or on Wednesday-Saturday, 3-6 April 2024.

Jasa Marga Marketing and Communication Department Head Faiza Riani said that this figure is the cumulative value of traffic flow (traffic) from the four Main Toll Gates (GT), namely Cikupa GT (direction to Merak), Ciawi GT (direction to Puncak), Cikampek Utama GT (direction to Trans Java), and Kalihurip Utama GT (direction to Bandung).

Quoting Antara, Sunday, April 7, the total volume of traffic leaving the Jabotabek area increased by 41.73 percent compared to normal traffic or from 569,735 vehicles.

When viewed from the previous year's Eid period, the total volume of traffic was 12.97 percent higher or an increase of 714,794 vehicles.

He said the distribution of traffic leaving Jabotabek towards all three directions was the majority of 462,710 vehicles or 57.30 percent heading east (Trans Java and Bandung), 209,582 vehicles 25.95 percent headed west (Merak), and 135,218 vehicles or 16.75 percent headed south (Puncak).

According to him, the trend of increasing the flow of vehicles to D-4 occurred on the toll road to the east via GT Cikampek Utama Jakarta-Cikampek Toll Road.

"Until now, we recorded that the highest volume of traffic in the period D-7 to D-5 of Eid al-Fitr 1445H occurred in D-4 of 122,607 vehicles, an increase of 321.69 percent from normal traffic, or an increase of 25.44 percent compared to Eid al-Fitr 2023 in the same period," said Faiza.

Furthermore, he said that until this information was issued, one way traffic engineering was still ongoing on the discretion of the Police to support the smooth flow of homecoming starting from KM 72 Cikampek (Cipali Toll Road) to KM 414 GT Kalikangkung, Batang-Semarang Toll Road.

In addition, currently two lanes of counter-current traffic engineering (contraflow) is still being implemented on the Jakarta-Cikampek Toll Road starting from KM 47 to KM 70 GT Cikampek Utama.