Residents Complain Of Traffic Jams, DKI Provincial Government Admits That The Construction Of Water Channels In Cipulir Cannot Be Completed By The End Of The Year

Traffic jams due to the construction of waterways in the Cipulir area, South Jakarta (DOK Diah Ayu/VOI)

JAKARTA - Head of the DKI Jakarta Water Resources (SDA) Office, Ika Agustin, admitted that the water channel construction project in the Cipulir area, South Jakarta could not be completed by the end of this year. In fact, previously the Natural Resources Service targeted a project with a jacking method starting from the Seskoal Road intersection through Jalan Ciledug Raya, until the Cipulir Market could be completed by the end of November. "This has the potential to not be completed by the end of 2024 because there is a jacking process. It's not easy," said Ika at a working meeting of Commission D of the DKI Jakarta DPRD at the DPRD Building, Central Jakarta, Tuesday, July 23. Ika admitted that the construction of the water channel on Jalan Ciledug Raya increased the volume of congestion from before so that the community complained. However, Ika said that the delay in road excavation work could not be avoided. Because, in that area, a pump house is also being built. In addition, the SDA Office has just finished announcing the auction for the construction implementer this month. The construction of the water channel in a jacking manner, plus the construction of the pump rum, admitted Ika, is not easy to do. "So later we will accommodate inundation in the Cipulir area in the storage under the road. The Natural Resources Service is now building storage under the road because there is no longer a land space. Then it is pumped to Pesanggrahan River," explained Ika. The construction of a water channel on Ciledug Raya Street, Cipulir, Kebayoran Lama, South Jakarta makes traffic jams even more. When the density occurs, the speed of vehicles passing is no more than 10 kilometers/hour or running slowly. The water channel construction project ate up the road, so that vehicles could only pass one lane to Tangerang to Jakarta. Moreover, there are still public transportation (angkot) that stops on the shoulder of the road waiting for passengers while blocking the road. Head of the Traffic Section of the South Jakarta Transportation Sub-department (Dishub) Prisno Jogiara said that his party together with the traffic police coordinated to carry out traffic engineering during peak hours. “ We are always with Polantas. Cipulir is the result of the meeting which should be 2-2 west-east (other than),” said Prisno at the Jakarta Sekatan Administration Office, Monday, July 22.

“ Finally we decided to engineer again, create a contraflow, so that in the morning it is not crowded enough to go to Jakarta. We do that on the south side of the contraflow, so the one leaving Jakarta is 1 lane. What we add will enter DKI (Jakarta),” he added.