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A number of people, including women carrying babies, offer their services as passengers to motorists who want to pass along Jl. Gatot Subroto, where the three-in-one traffic policy is imposed. (The Jakarta Post/DON)
T
he three-in-one traffic restriction is still needed on three major thoroughfares of the capital city to ease traffic congestion in the area because the city administration has no alternative available to replace it, police say.
The head of the Jakarta Police’s traffic division, Adj. Sr. Comr. Budiyanto, said he would propose to the city administration to maintain the three-in-one traffic policy.
He said that during the trial removal of minimum passenger-number requirements from April 5 to 13 as ordered by Governor Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama, traffic congestion in the areas worsened.
“It is still effective [to control traffic jams]. Therefore, we will propose the three-in-one system to be maintained while waiting for an alternative,” Budiyanto said.
Ahok called on putting an end to the system that was introduced in the 1990s, arguing that many parents and adults take their children with them to help motorists meet the three-passenger minimum while passing over Jl. M. H. Thamrin, Jl. Sudirman and Gatot Subroto for a certain amount of money.
The city administration has long planned replacing the three-in-one system with electronic road pricing (ERP), or an odd-even plate system. Transportation experts, however, have advised that such a policy could only be introduced if the city administration manages to improve its public transportation services.
Budiyanto said the three-in-one system could be removed if the city administration could significantly reduce the volume of vehicles, particularly passenger cars, that run along the thoroughfares by providing alternative transportation to commuters.
He cited the future mass rapid transit (MRT) system and the planned light rail transit (LRT) as things that could reduce the volume of vehicles. (bbn)
