TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Jakarta Transportation Agency chief Muhammad Akbar said Electronic Road Pricing (ERP) trial period in the beginning would not impose retribution free on passing vehicles.
"There is now only trial on system in one lane. During the implementation later, the system will be installed in all lanes," Akbar said yesterday.
The ERP would replace 3-in-1 in lanes where traffic jam often occurs. On Jl. HR Rasuna Said, for example, ERP will be installed in all lanes. Two-wheeled vehicles will be forbidden from passing by at certain hours. "We will provide parking spaces for two-wheeled vehicles outside ERP lane," Akbar added.
The government will also provide free double-decker buses to transport two-wheeled vehicle owners to their destinations on the ERP lane.
Public transportation, such as taxi and bus, traveling through ERP lane will not be charged. The same also applies to ambulance and fire extinguisher truck.
ERP is an elelctronic payment system that will be imposed on vehicles passing through gantries that have censors able to read the identity of a vehicle through On Board Unit (OBU), a tool that can give signals about data and balance owned by the vehicle.
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