Purbalingga Police Anticipate Surge In Homebound Flow From Pemalang

The Purbalingga Police Satlantas team and Purbalingga Transportation Agency conducted a survey on the Pemalang-Purbalingga route, especially the Bayeman area/Photo: Antara

PURBALINGGA - The Traffic Unit (Satlantas) of the Resort Police (Polres) of Purbalingga, Central Java, anticipates the possibility of a spike in the homecoming flow from Pemalang on Eid 2022. , the southern route, and the southern southern route. In fact, it does not pass to Purbalingga, except for those from the north coast to Banyumas and Banjarnegara, it is possible to pass through Purbalingga," said Purbalingga Police Traffic Unit Head Adjunct Commissioner of Police Rizky Widyo Pratomo in Purbalingga, Tuesday 19 April. According to him, his party has conducted a survey along the road starting from the Pemalang-Purbalingga border in Belik to the Purbalingga-Banyumas border in Jompo which is approximately 25 kilometers. In addition, the placement of personnel and security posts has been allocated but the certainty will be determined ahead of the 2022 Ketupat Candi Operation. to anticipate the vulnerability and traffic density of vehicles On the route from Belik to Purbalingga, his party will place two security posts, one of which is in the Bayeman area, Karangreja District, Purbalingga. If there is an accident there, because there is no evacuation route or diversion, the flow is far to D'Las (Desa Wisata Lembah Asri Serang), so we put a post there to speed up evacuation if there are obstacles," said AKP Rizky as quoted by Antara.

Furthermore, Kasatlantas said that previously it was discussed that the homecoming flow to Banyumas had two routes, namely via Gandulan (Pemalang) and Bumiayu (Brebes). the direction of Pejagan (Brebes) and Adiwerna (Tegal). "It is predicted that there will be more through Bumiayu than via Gandulan. The prediction is like that, but we are still preparing security posts because the contour of the road from Pemalang to Purbalingga continues to descend (long descent), so we anticipate ," he emphasized.