CIANJUR - Motorists were stuck for six hours with the vehicle stalled on the Cianjur-Bandung route, West Java, due to traffic jams from morning to Tuesday evening. A number of engineering including a one-way system will be implemented by officers.
Monitoring at the location until 15.30 WIB, the queue of vehicles heading to Bandung from Cianjur or vice versa continues to lengthen. The tail of the queue is more than 15 kilometers from the West Bandung border, precisely on the former Citarum toll road. The flow engineering efforts made by officers have not been able to dilute the queue.
Even efforts to direct motorists to take alternative routes did not produce maximum results, the queues on the main Bandung-Cianjur route continued to lengthen, so officers planned to carry out a one-way system in the evening.
A number of motorists from Cianjur with the aim of visiting Bandung, Nurjaman said that they had left since the morning so as not to get stuck in traffic on the Bandung-Cianjur route, but from 10.00 WIB to 15.00 WIB they were still on the West Bandung route, precisely in the Tagog Apu area.
"We have been trapped for almost six hours starting from Cianjur to Tagog Apu-West Bandung. Usually from Cianjur to Bandung it only takes a maximum of 3 hours. Dozens of officers at every market spill and the crossroads are still trying to break the queue," said the driver from Cianjur. from Antara, Tuesday, May 3 evening.
The same thing was said by the driver going to Cianjur, Aldi, a resident of Bandung, who was stuck for 6 hours on the Bandung-Cianjur route, starting from the Rajamandala Market to the Karangtengah-Cianjur highway, even though he departed at 7.00 WIB from Bandung.
"The speed of vehicles has slowed from exiting the Padalarang toll road to Rajamandala Market, usually the journey from Padalarang to Rajamandala is a maximum of 2 hours. This is more than three hours, we only arrived in Cianjur after six hours," he said.
Cianjur Police Chief, AKBP Doni Hermawan, said that the cause of congestion on the main Bandung-Cianjur route, with the long queue of Jalan Raya Karang Tengah as far as 15 kilometers, was due to spilled markets in Cianjur and West Bandung, so that a number of flow engineering including a one-way system would be implemented after blocking efforts. done from one direction.
"The spilled markets in Ciranjang-Cianjur and Rajamadala Markets-West Bandung, as well as a number of intersections leading to tourist attractions in the same area, are the cause of traffic jams due to the high volume of vehicles from morning to afternoon. We are trying a number of techniques to break the queue chain," he said.
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