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Odd-even policy to be enforced, ticketing to start next week
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Vehicles stuck in traffic on Jl. MH Thamrin in Central Jakarta on June 20. The Jakarta administration will fully implement the odd-even traffic policy next week to ease traffic congestion after it was successful in its one-month trial. (Antara/Aprilio Akbar)
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rom next week police will be able to ticket violators of the odd-even traffic policy as the policy is set to be fully enforced, given its successful trial in reducing traffic congestion.
Head of law enforcement at the Jakarta Police traffic division Adj. Sr. Comr. Budiyanto stressed that traffic police would fine violators Rp 500,000 (US$ 37.60).
Jakarta Police and the Jakarta City Transportation Agency came to the conclusion during a meeting to evaluate the policy's one-month trial in Jakarta on Thursday that it had reduced traffic in the city.
“Vehicle speeds improved by about 4 minutes in the odd-even policy zone and Transjakarta buses transported about 30 percent more passengers during the trial,” Budiyanto told The Jakarta Post Thursday.
He further said headway from one bus to another at stations along Transjakarta’s corridor I, VI and IX had also shortened. He did not explain the average headway.
Separately, transportation expert Djoko Setijowarno of the Indonesian Transportation Society (MTI) said although the odd-even traffic policy succeeded in reducing vehicle numbers passing through the main thoroughfares—Jl. M.H. Thamrin, Jl. Sudirman, Jl. Gatot Subroto and Jl. Rasuna Said, it would not be easy to enforce the regulation.
He suggested that the police and the Jakarta administration install electronic devices to monitor vehicles entering the main thoroughfares. “A manual system is susceptible to cheating,” Djoko told the Post Thursday. (rez/bbn)
