Backflow At The Kalikangkung Semarang Toll Gate Is Still Sloping

Vehicles will exit the Kalikangkung Toll Gate, Semarang, Central Java, on Friday (12/4/2024). BETWEEN/Mario Sofia Nasution

SEMARANG - The backflow that passes at the Kalikangkung Toll Gate, Semarang, Central Java, has not increased significantly until the afternoon.

"Today, 22,019 vehicles have entered from Semarang to Jakarta since 06.00 WIB," said Head of the Kalilkangkung Toll Gate Integrated Post (GT) AKP SujidR, quoted by ANTARA, Friday, April 12.

The average motorized vehicle that flows back from Central Java to Jakarta is 1,500 to 2,300 vehicles per hour. "For vehicles passing are dominated by private vehicles," he said.

Sujid said that currently all toll gates in the location are opened. There are six doors from Jakarta to Semarang and six doors for Semarang to Jakarta and four satellite doors added.

"Indeed, the number has not increased significantly," he said.

He said the number of vehicles made the Police have not implemented one direction (one way) and are still waiting for directions from the center.

"If there is an instruction 'one way' then we are here to prepare the facilities and infrastructure for implementing the system," he said.

Sujid predicts that the number of return-flow vehicles after Eid al-Fitr 1445 Hijri will begin to increase on Saturday (13/4) and there may be an "one way" system on Saturday (13/4).

"We are here waiting for instructions from the center and if the average passing vehicle has reached 3,000 to 4,000 vehicles per hour, it will be reported to the center," he said.