Cipali Toll Road to Go One-Way from Saturday
Holidaymakers may use non-toll or national roads as alternatives if the toll roads’ traffic jams get too severe.
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An aerial photo of the flow of vehicles from Jakarta on the Jakarta-Cikampek elevated toll section toward the Kilometer Marker (KM) 48 meeting with the Jakarta-Cikampek toll road in Karawang regency, West Java, Friday (20/12/2019) at 6:20 p.m. The density of vehicles on the toll road has increased ahead of Christmas and New Year’s Eve.
JAKARTA, KOMPAS—The National Police plan to implement a one-way traffic system on the Cikopo-Palimanan (Cipali) toll road from morning to afternoon on Saturday (21/12/2019), to deal with expected traffic jams as holidaymakers leave Jakarta for their home towns. Holidaymakers may use non-toll or national roads as alternatives if the toll roads’ traffic jams get too severe.
National Traffic Police Corps (Korlantas) chief Sr. Comr. Benyamin said on Friday (20/12) that dense traffic on the Cipali toll road might be caused by the toll road having only two lanes and could be overwhelmed by incoming traffic from the five-lane Jakarta-Cikampek (Japek) toll road. “If there is a traffic jam, most likely it will occur on the Cipali toll road, instead of the Japek toll road,” Benyamin said in Jakarta.