Homecoming Travelers Are Urged To Avoid Backflow Trips For Eid To Jakarta 6-8 May

Traffic flow at the Main Cikampek Toll Gate on the Jakarta-Cikampek Toll Road. ANTARA/HO - Jasa Marga

JAKARTA - PT Jasa Marga (Persero) Tbk appealed to travelers to avoid returning to Greater Jakarta on May 6-8 2022.

Jasa Marga's Corporate Communication and Community Development Group Head Dwimawan Heru said that not only did it happen on Sundays, the increase in traffic was also predicted to occur on D+3 and D+4 or on Friday-Saturday, 6-7 May 2022, with an increasing number of vehicles. not far from the peak of the return on May 8, 2022.

"To realize a more comfortable trip, we urge road users to arrange their return time to Jabotabek and request the cooperation of road users to return to Jabotabek before 6-8 May 2022," said Heru in a written statement quoted by Antara, Wednesday, 4 May.

Jasa Marga predicts that the peak of the return to Jabotabek in the context of the Idul Fitri 1443 H holiday will fall on D+5 or on Sunday, May 8. The prediction for the number of vehicles returning to Greater Jakarta on that day is 269,444 vehicles, up 53.6 percent from normal traffic for the November 2021 period.

This prediction figure is the cumulative traffic expected to Jabotabek at several barrier/main toll gates (GT), namely GT Cikampek Utama & GT Kalihurip Utama (direction of Trans Java and Bandung), GT Cikupa (direction of Merak) and GT Ciawi (direction of Puncak). . Predictions from the East to reach 64.64 percent of the total traffic. Meanwhile, for the west it is 21.35 percent and from the south it is 14.02 percent.

Dwimawan Heru emphasized that the distribution from the east to Jakarta which reached 64.64 percent, the majority will come from Trans Java and Bandung to Jabotabek to via GT Cikampek Utama and GT Kalihurip Utama on Sunday, 8 May 2022, which is around 174,157 vehicles, an increase of 104.4 percent compared to normal traffic.

Jasa Marga continues to coordinate with the Police for the implementation of traffic engineering, such as contraflow to one way, as well as placing officers in locations prone to overcrowding.

The implementation of traffic engineering on reverse flows includes avoiding the confluence of two traffic jams on the Cipularang Toll Road and the Jakarta-Cikampek Toll Road towards Jakarta at the Km 66 Dawuan Interchange and the density before access to enter and exit the Km 62 and Km 52 rest areas.

Toll road users are also advised to always be careful when driving, obey signs and follow the directions of officers in the field. Monitor traffic conditions through real time CCTV on toll roads through the Travoy application. Traffic information and services can be accessed through Jasa Marga's 24-hour One Call Center at 14080.