Severe Traffic Jam Garut-Bandung, Infectious Vehicles From Kadungora To Nagreg

A number of vehicles were stuck in traffic on Jalan Raya Bandung-Garut, Kadungora District, Garut Regency, West Java, Tuesday (4/4/2023). (ANTARA/Feri Purnama)

GARUT - Severe traffic jams occurred on the border of Garut-Bandung Regency or to be precise in the Lebak Jero area. Congestion due to improvements to provincial roads in the area.

"Besides repairing roads, there was dredging," said Head of the Garut Police Traffic Unit AKP Syarif Hidayat when contacted by reporters in Garut, West Java, Tuesday, April 4, confiscated by Antara.

Congestion in the flow of vehicle traffic on the border route occurs from noon today until late this afternoon.

The law said that it had deployed a number of traffic unit personnel to secure and regulate the flow of vehicles in the area, including coordinating with the police from the Bandung Police area.

"We are coordinating with the Bandung Police because the dredging location and repairs are in the Bandung area," he said.

One of Garut's road users, Juju, said that he had been stuck in traffic at the Bandung-Garut border route for approximately an hour.

"It was jammed about an hour ago, the vehicle did not move," said Juju.

He conveyed that there were vehicles on the route, so many drivers and passengers got out of the vehicle because of the heat.

The congestion, he said, began to occur from the Kadungora area to Bandung and from the opposite direction there was also traffic jams.

"Congested from Kadungora to Nagreg," he said.