Police to Apply Contraflow System to Anticipate Travelers Returning from Mudik
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Selasa, 11 Mei 2021 21:47 WIB
Vehicles of Eid travelers queue before the Cipali Toll Road Gate in Palimanan, Cirebon, West Java, Thursday, May 30, 2019. ANTARA/Dedhez Anggara
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Jakarta Metro Police traffic chief Sr. Comsr. Sambodo Purnomo Yogo said that his institution will implement the contraflow scheme to anticipate traffic density during the return of Eid homecoming (mudik) travelers to the capital city this year. He said that the implementation of this policy is situational.
"We'll see if it needs to be opened from KM 65 until KM 42 or extended to KM28 until KM4; in total to be 60 kilometers," he said at the Jakarta Metro Police HQ in South Jakarta, Tuesday, May 11.
He said that around 1.2-1.5 millions of mudik travelers left Jakarta before the ban on Eid mass exodus was taking effect. It consists of cars, motorcycles, airplane and ship passengers.
Of the number, 360,000 vehicles passing the toll roads left the capital city on May 1-10. The vehicles departed to Cikopo-Palimanan or Cipali Toll; Merak, Banten; Bandung, Jawa Barat; Central Java; and East Java.
Sambodo added that the police would apply the one-way traffic policy if the contraflow system fails to drop the traffic volume.
