Police, DLLAJ ticket 1,142 buses for violations<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): A special team of the City Police and the City
\nTraffic and Land Transportation Control Agency (DLLAJ) has
\nticketed a total of 1,142 public transportation drivers in the
\nlast two days for keeping their vehicles' doors open while in
\nmotion.<\/p>\n
"The buses were ticketed Tuesday and Wednesday at various
\nlocations, not only on main roads and highways but also on
\nsmaller streets around the city," City Police spokesman Lt. Col.
\nA. Latief Rabar said yesterday.<\/p>\n
Of the drivers ticketed, Latief said 346 were from Metro Mini
\nminibuses, 226 from state-owned PPD buses, 199 from Mayasari
\nBhakti buses, 170 from Kopaja minibuses, 156 from Mikrolet vans,
\n39 from KWK minibuses, five from Mini Artha minibuses and one
\nfrom a Bianglala bus.<\/p>\n
"So far the team has arrested none of the violators and
\nimpounded no vehicles in connection with the ticketing," Latief
\nadded.<\/p>\n
The enforcement of the regulation began on Sunday.<\/p>\n
The ticketing, however, started only two days later in a bid
\nto allow the crews, owners and the commuters as well to adapt
\nthemselves to the new regulations.<\/p>\n
During the first day of the ticketing, the team ticketed 544
\nbus crews, covering 175 driver of Metromini minibuses, 113 of
\nMayasari Bhakti, 87 of Mikrolet vans, 76 drivers of PPD buses, 72
\nof Kopaja minibuses, 16 KWK minibuses and five of Mini Artha
\nminibuses.<\/p>\n
On the next day, the number went up slightly to 598
\nviolators, consisting of 171 crews of Metromini, 150 of PPD, 98
\nof Kopaja, 86 of Mayasari Bhakti, 69 of Mikrolet, 23 of KWK and
\none Bianglala.<\/p>\n
"We're never proud of the large number of violators," Latief
\nsaid. "The lower the figure, the better," he said.<\/p>\n
Therefore, he said that police are still hoping that the
\nconcerned parties from the public to the bus crews as well as the
\nowners learn a lesson on how to behave in the streets.<\/p>\n
Strict<\/p>\n
In a related development, City Council Chairman MH Ritonga
\ntold reporters the authority had to make a definite schedule for
\nthe phasing in of the traffic law.<\/p>\n
"There is what we call the sociological aspect of the law. It
\nmeans we cannot strictly implement the law once it is enacted. We
\nneed, for example, a conditioning period that the public can
\ngradually adjust themselves to. But it must be clear when the
\nconditioning process stops and we start to implement it
\nstrictly," said Ritonga, the former chief of the City Police.<\/p>\n
Ritonga said the 1992 traffic law, which took effective as of
\nSeptember, 1993, obligated public transports to close the doors
\nwhile in motion.<\/p>\n
"The policy needs some conditioning. But it should be made
\nclear and definite as to when its enforcement is fully done to
\nprevent the conditioning period from being protracted," he said.<\/p>\n
Earlier, Herdjan Kenasin, chairman of the Jakarta-based
\nTrisakti Transport Management Academy, told The Jakarta Post the
\npublic transport companies were in fact never prepared for the
\nclose-door policy before.<\/p>\n
Before the strict implementation of the regulation, he said,
\nthe government had never enforced the safety regulation and
\nallowed bus crews to operate recklessly.<\/p>\n
"Now it needs time to let bus companies and their employees to
\nadapt to this new situation," he said, adding the adjustment
\nmight take more than a month. (bsr\/jsk)<\/p>",
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