DKI Transportation Agency Concerning Discourse To Remove Transjakarta Route Blok M-Kota: We Must Efficiency Subsidy Funds

Illustration of Transjakarta (Between/Akbar Nugroho Gumay)

Head of the DKI Jakarta Transportation Agency, Syafrin Liputo, explained the reason for the discourse on removing the Transjakarta route in corridor 1, namely Blok M-Kota, if MRT Jakarta Phase 2A operates.

Syafrin said, when MRT Jakarta phase 2A operates, the route to the Lebak Bulus-Kota service will be the same as 100 percent with the Transjakarta Blok M-Kota route.

Meanwhile, the DKI Provincial Government needs to save on APBD expenditure for transportation subsidies or public service obligation (PSO) whose value reaches trillions of rupiah per year.

"We have to make efficiency in the management of PSO funds, Subsidy funds. Where, based on the results of a study of mass public transportation services which are 100 percent parallel, automatically there will be two subsidies there," Syafrin told reporters, Sunday, December 22.

Syafrin said that the scenario for changing mass public transportation services was included in the Jakarta transportation master plan that had been prepared for a long time.

In the future, the main modes of transportation in Jakarta are rail-based public transportation such as MRT Jakarta, LRT Jakarta, and KRL. Thus, Transjakarta is projected to be a feeder service to the station.

"The principle of Transjakarta services will later become a feeder of rail transportation. The DKI Jakarta Provincial government's policy towards the development of mass public transportation has made rail transportation a backbone, as a backbone," explained Syafrin.

Syafrin emphasized that in the future, bus stops and buses that have been serving routes in corridor 1 will still exist. However, there will be changes in routes and stop points from serving the 1 Blok M-Kota corridor.

"For the corridor of Blok M, this city will be rerouted, but waiting after the completion of the MRT phase 2 A construction and the full operational MRT to the city, God willing, we hope that it will be operational in 2029," he said.

"So there is no one who stops being a waste because it is still being used for integration between road transportation and rail transportation," he added.