Drivers protest route overlaps

Drivers protest route overlaps

TANGERANG (JP): Dozens of minivan drivers have staged a
protest at the local office of the Land Transportation Agency
(DLLAJ) here, demanding that chronic route overlap be sorted out
as soon as possible.

They also urged officers to take stern measures against
minivan drivers whose route was overlapping with theirs or who
frequently took the law into their own hands by forcefully
stopping them, asking the passengers to get out and preventing
them from plying their routes.

The protesting drivers were operating minivans G-06 that ply
the Cikokol-Sangiang route. About 2 kilometers of their route
overlap with minivan R-06 on Jl. Imam Bonjol.

"We're frequently intimidated by minivan R-06 drivers, not to
continue our services, as they claim that the overlapped route is
theirs," Sarman, one of the protesters, said on Wednesday.

The intimidation was unfair, he said, as G-06 minivans were
not the only vehicles serving the routes. There were other public
transportation vehicles, including AJA buses and Mayasari Bhakti,
passing along the route as well, he said.

Adeng Rustandi, a managing officer of the agency's Tangerang
office, said after a meeting with representatives of the
protesters, that his office would try to settle the problem as
soon as possible. (41/hhr)