Car repair shops reprimanded

Car repair shops reprimanded

JAKARTA (JP): The City Land Transportation and Traffic Control
Agency (DLLAJ) has reprimanded 104 vehicle repair shops in the
city's five mayoralties for parking vehicles at the roadside or
on sidewalks.

"We have warned them because they use sidewalks and
roadsides," said Herman Tonglo Langi, the division head of public
transportation control at DLLAJ.

Herman said over the weekend the agency reprimanded 85 vehicle
repair shops for the violation in July, 15 in August and four in
September.

Herman said the agency launched the traffic operation in line
with a Gubernatorial Instruction barring vehicle repair shops
from parking their customers' vehicles at roadsides or on
sidewalks.

"This operation is aimed at easing traffic problems in some
areas," he said, adding that the operation will be concentrated
on main roads which are used by public transit vehicles.

Data at DLLAJ shows there are 149 workshops in South Jakarta,
42 in Central Jakarta, 26 in West Jakarta, 39 in North Jakarta
and 30 in East Jakarta. Many of them are located along main
roads.

Herman said that during the three-month operation the agency
has ticketed 440 vehicle owners for parking their vehicles in
unauthorized places.

"We ticketed 93 vehicles in July , 234 in August and 113 in
September," he said.

"They were caught red-handed parking the vehicles they were
repairing at roadsides and on sidewalks," Herman said.

When asked about the possibility of revoking the repair shops'
licenses, Herman said DLLAJ had no authority to do so. "The
workshops' licenses are issued by the Ministry of Industry, not
by our office," he said.(yns)