Mudik 2017: Heavy Traffic Jam in Jakarta - Cikampek Toll Road
23 June 2017 08:56 WIB
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The density of vehicles stuck in traffic on the Jakarta - Cikampek toll road during the homecoming or mudik peak season last night. The traffic congestion lasted until the Semanggi inner-city toll road.
“The congestion was caused by the sudden increase of vehicles entering the toll road,” Yoga Nugraha, the Jakarta-Cikampek toll road communication officer, said early Friday, June 23.
The line of cars ended at East Karawang’s 57th-kilometer freeway point. The traffic heading to Cipali and Purbaleunyi toll road went smoothly.
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To reduce the long queue of the mudik traveler, Jasa Marga officials sped-up transactions at the Cikarang Utama toll booth. The state toll operator would also conduct situational vehicle reroutes, directing cars to exit through west Cikarang III toll exit and enter it again through the west Cikarang I toll booth.
“We try to make the traffic into a form of canalization,” said Yoga. This is effective to avoid the bottleneck during the toll road’s 29th and 30th-kilometer.
Jasa Marga Spokesman stated that the mudik traffic was not completely stagnant and that it continued to move despite at the speed of under 20 kilometers per hour.
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Indria Purnama, one of the road users, stuck in the heavy mudik congestion. Indria said that he needed more than six hours from Depok to reach the Cikarang Utama toll gate. “I departed at 23:00 and I just arrived at the Cikarang toll gate this morning,” he said on Friday, June 23.
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