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Toll operator gears up for heavy return traffic
State-owned toll operator PT Jasa Marga has prepared measures to anticipate the returning traffic of vehicles into Jakarta following the Idul Fitri holiday, an official said on Friday.
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Heavy traffic clogs the northern Java coastal highway (Pantura) in Tegal, Central Java, on Thursday. On the second day of Idul Fitri, there was an increase in the volume of traffic heading toward Jakarta. (Antara/Oky Lukmansyah)
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tate-owned toll operator PT Jasa Marga has prepared measures to anticipate the returning traffic of vehicles heading to Jakarta following the Idul Fitri holiday, an official said on Friday.
The company is to impose traffic management measures at Cikarang Utama toll gate in Bekasi, West Java, as the main toll gate for vehicles returning to the capital from East and Central Java, according to the company's assistant vice president of corporate communication, Dwimawan Heru Santoso.
"If serious tailbacks form at Cikarang Utama, vehicles heading from Cikampek to Jakarta will have to take the exit at the Cikarang 2 toll gate, then re-enter at the Cikarang 4 toll gate," he said adding that the measures aimed to smoothen the flow of traffic.
Jasa Marga will also implement a contra-flow system on the Cikampek-Jakarta toll road to ease traffic, while some rest areas will apply an open-and-close road system, as the company predicts that vehicles from the Purbaleunyi and Cikampek toll roads will contribute to forming a bottleneck at Kilometer 66 of the Cikampek toll road.
Another measure prepared to anticipate traffic congestion at the Cikarang Utama toll gate is to open the automated toll gates for manual payments, allowing all vehicles to use all gates to reduce queues at toll gates, Heru added.
After this week's Idul Fitri holiday, the government predicts that vehicles will start returning to the city on Friday and Saturday. Employees of private companies and public officials are set to go back to work on Monday. (sha/rin)
