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Traffic volume down on Jl. MH Thamrin after motorcycle ban
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Motorcyclists travel along Jl. Rasuna Said in South Jakarta on Aug. 21. (JP/Wendra Ajistyatama)
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he number of vehicles passing the thoroughfare Jl. MH Thamrin in Central Jakarta has decreased by 22.4 percent following a motorcycle ban, an official said.
"It has decreased to 4,886 from 6,300 vehicles," Jakarta Transportation Agency traffic management head Priyanto said after delivering an evaluation of the motorcycle ban at the City Council on Tuesday.
The Jakarta administration has banned the use of motorcycles on the road’s section from Jl. Medan Merdeka Barat to the Hotel Indonesia traffic circle since 2014.
Beside decreasing the number of vehicles, the agency also found that the policy had increased the average speed on the road from 26.3 kilometers per hour to 30.8 km per hour.
"The average time spent on the road decreased by 15 percent from 8.1 minutes to 6.8 minutes," Priyanto said, as quoted by kompas.com.
Currently, the Jakarta administration, with support from the Transportation Ministry's Greater Jakarta Transportation Agency (BPTJ), is set to extend the ban on motorcycles from Jl. Medan Merdeka Barat to the Senayan traffic circle on Jl. Sudirman, South Jakarta.
It found that 44.5 percent of vehicles passing through Sudirman to the Hotel Indonesia traffic circle were motorcycles, Priyanto said.
"Our data show that around 44,000 motorcycles pass the road in a day, 25 percent of which are app-based motorcycle taxis," he said. (yon)
