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Cameras to keep vehicles away from bus lanes
City-owned transportation company PT Transjakarta and the Jakarta Police traffic management unit have teamed up to expand the electronic traffic law enforcement (ETLE) system in Transjakarta lanes
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span>City-owned transportation company PT Transjakarta and the Jakarta Police traffic management unit have teamed up to expand the electronic traffic law enforcement (ETLE) system in Transjakarta lanes.
Both institutions signed a memorandum of understanding on the ELTE system for 12 Transjakarta corridors on Monday at the Jakarta Police office.
Transjakarta president director Agung Wicaksono said the system installation aimed to improve the punctuality of Transjakarta buses.
“The key to encouraging people to use public transportation is by providing smooth and clear lanes, so the speed of [Transjakarta] buses can be well-predicted,” he said in a written statement made available to The Jakarta Post on Tuesday.
Inspired by the ETLE system already in place since November last year, Agung expressed his belief the system would help curb congestion, improve the order of Transjakarta buses as well as traffic in general.
“The ETLE system is able to provide accuracy and thus prove violations,” he added.
Applying the technology has become more urgent as the company recorded a decrease of clear dedicated Transjakarta lanes from 55 percent in 2016 to 51 percent last year, he said.
The memorandum of understanding (MoU) signing will be followed by the provision, installation and integration with the police’s traffic system. The system installation is expected to be completed in October at the latest, while dissemination and enforcement will follow.
The police’s traffic division director, Sr. Comr. Yusuf, said the system in Transjakarta’s corridors would function in the same way as the existing cameras targeting two-wheeled and four-wheeled vehicles that pass through the lane.
However, technical details of the system required further study, he said.
“Violators entering Transjakarta lanes will be ticketed. Aside from enforcement by our officers, we will also enforce with the ETLE cameras,” he said during the MoU signing, as quoted by Antara.
Jakarta Transportation Agency head Syafrin Liputo supported the cooperation, saying the system with its accuracy would be effective in tackling vehicles passing through the lanes.
Jakarta has 12 ETLE cameras installed in 10 spots along Jl. Sudirman — Jl. MH Thamrin until the Bina Graha complex on Jl. Veteran, Central Jakarta.
The Jakarta administration has granted Rp 38.5 billion (US$2.7 million) from this year’s budget to the Jakarta Police’s traffic management unit. The grant will be used to provide cameras in an additional 81 spots throughout the city.
With the expansion of the odd-even license plate policy on Monday, Syafrin said his side had attempted to install more ETLE cameras on the roads affected by the policy.
“I have communicated with the police’s traffic unit on the expanded odd-even policy, [we asked] them to calculate the amount of money needed for additional cameras, [which] we will allocate in next year’s budget,” he said on Tuesday.
The police’s traffic unit recorded that 22,898 notification letters were sent to vehicle owners from Nov. 1 last year until Sept. 9 this year.
From the figure, 13,728 vehicle owners confirmed the violations recorded by ETLE cameras, of whom 12,207 had taken their cases to court and 5,730 had paid their fine.
The traffic unit has blocked 9,362 vehicle registration certificates belonging to vehicle owners who have been caught by cameras and failed to pay their fine as of Sept. 9.
The ETLE system has been lauded by many as it has forced road users to be more disciplined and has sped up the process of ticketing.
