Weak Supervision, Illegal Parking Rampant in Jatinegara
Reported by Nurito | Translated by Isa Efriadi
Weak supervision by the officers creates Jatinegara, East Jakarta is once again rampant with illegal parking. This condition makes the area seems chaotic.
Some of our officers are placed in Tanah Abang to control illegal parking. It means we lack of personnel to control Jatinegara
Based on beritajakarta.com observations, there are vehicles illegally parked or unloading goods along the Jatinegara Barat roadside. Similar view is also seen on Jalan Jatinegara Timur which dominated by motorcycles and cars.
There are also tens of student's parents' car parked on roadside in front of Santo Antonious Christian School on Jalan Otista Raya. The worst condition seen at Kampung Melayu bus terminal. Tens of mikrolet (small van) are parked in a row outside the terminal. This condition is worsened by some Kopajas parking across the terminal, right under Kampung Melayu flyover.
Illegal Parking, Dozens of Vehicles in North Jakarta ControlledTraffic jam formed a line on Jalan Jatinegara Barat to Jalan Otista for 2 kilometers every morning. Heavy traffic jam is also appears on Jalan Jatinegara Timur to Jalan Matraman Raya up to 2.5 kilometers. Actually, there is a police post near the terminal. Even, the terminal officers give up to control traffic jam caused by public transport.
East Jakarta Head Section of Supervision for Sub-dept. of Transportation, Budi Sugiantoro, admitted illegal parking is rampant again around Jatinegara.
"Some of our officers are placed in Tanah Abang to control illegal parking. It means we lack of personnel to control Jatinegara," he admitted.
