TheJakartaPost
Please Update your browser
Your browser is out of date, and may not be compatible with our website. A list of the most popular web browsers can be found below.
Just click on the icons to get to the download page.
Congestion shifts to Jakarta suburbs during Idul Fitri
Change Size
Jl. Sudirman, a normally congested road that passes through a busy business district of Jakarta, looks unusually quiet just before the Idul Fitri holidays. (JP/VPS)
W
hile several main roads in the heart of Jakarta were quieter than usual on the first day of Idul Fitri, toll roads in Greater Jakarta experienced the opposite situation with a record number of cars.
State-owned toll road operator PT Jasa Marga recorded 109,140 cars leaving the Jakarta-Cikampek toll road on Wednesday, a 10.3 percent increase compared to last year’s 98.939.
“In 2016, the volume of vehicles at the Cikarang Utama toll gate on the D-Day of Idul Fitri reached 109,140 units," said Jasa Marga’s Jakarta-Cikampek section spokesperson Iwan Abrianto, as quoted by the Antara news agency in Bekasi, West Java, on Thursday.
In detail, 37,288 vehicles passed the toll gate in the first shift, 39,373 in the second shift and 32,479 in the third shift. Total traffic exceeded an initial prediction of 96,000 vehicles, Iwan added.
Most of the motorists are Jakartans visiting relatives and friends in the surrounding areas or heading to the recreational sites. "Traffic was most congested on the Jakarta route and the surroundings," he said.
Meanwhile on Thursday, Iwan added, several traffic jams had prompted traffic wardens to organize the flow traffic in places such as the KM 19 and KM 33 rest areas through on-off system.(ags)
