Bogor Police Implement Puncak Traffic Engineering During Lunar New Year Holiday

Bogor Regency (ANTARA) — The Bogor Police have implemented traffic engineering measures on the Puncak route during the Lunar New Year long holiday, after 64,000 vehicles were recorded passing through the Ciawi toll gate from morning through Sunday afternoon.

Head of Traffic Operations at the Bogor Police Traffic Unit, Insp. Ardian Novianto, said one-way traffic flow from Puncak toward Jakarta was enforced starting at 12:00 PM Western Indonesian Time and normalized at 5:30 PM.

“Indeed, on this Sunday many visitors have already been descending from the Puncak tourist area toward Jakarta and its surroundings. That is why starting at 12:00 PM we enforced one-way downhill traffic, which was only normalized at 5:30 PM,” he said when interviewed at the Gadog Police Post in Ciawi, Bogor Regency, West Java, on Sunday.

He explained that based on vehicle data monitored through the Ciawi toll gate up to 6:00 PM, the number of vehicles entering the Puncak tourist area reached 22,600 units, while those exiting toward Jakarta totaled 24,800 units.

“So the flow of those already descending or returning toward Jakarta and its surroundings is still dominant. The total number of vehicles monitored today reached 64,000,” he said.

This year’s Lunar New Year long holiday runs from Saturday (February 14) through Tuesday (February 17), with joint leave days driving increased tourist mobility to the Puncak area. He added that hotel occupancy rates in the Puncak area have also begun to decline from 56 percent the previous day to 48 percent on Sunday, although some tourists remain as Monday is still a joint leave day.

To anticipate a potential surge in traffic on Monday (February 16), the Bogor Police Traffic Unit is preparing traffic engineering schemes including odd-even number plate restrictions and one-way systems, both uphill in the morning and downhill in the afternoon.

“We are preparing for tomorrow as well, including the possible implementation of odd-even restrictions and one-way traffic. In the morning, one-way uphill traffic may be enforced, then in the afternoon, one-way downhill,” he said.

At night, officers continue to manually direct traffic by deploying approximately 20 personnel at several bottleneck points along the Puncak route, with 14 personnel on standby through the evening to ensure smooth vehicle flow.

The Bogor Police, together with the military, the Transportation Agency, and the Civil Service Police Unit, also declared their readiness to secure and facilitate traffic flow for the remainder of the long holiday period.