The East Jakarta Transportation Sub-agency built speed traps on Jalan Raya TMII, Cipayung, Thursday (4/25) early this morning.

We'll hold a routine patrol

East Jakarta Transportation Sub-agency's Traffic Section Head, Benhard Tobing stated the speed trap attachment is a follow-up to a proposal from the East Jakarta Traffic Unit, as the location is still used as a place for illegal racing for groups of teenagers at night, especially on weekends.

"We're building speed traps in two directions, either from Cipayung to Kramat Jati or the opposite direction. Hope it can prevent illegal racing like what happened before," he expressed.

East Jakarta Transportation Sub-agency'd Traffic Section Staff, Dedi Suparman explained there were eight speed traps. It was because each lane was built at four points and at each point there were five shock marking lines with a thickness of nine millimeters.

"This is done at night not to disrupt the smooth flow of traffic considering that during the day traffic is very busy," he expressed.

East Jakarta Traffic Unit Vice Chief, AKP Sunaryo added the results of the analysis and evaluation at the Police Headquarters some time ago decided that to anticipate illegal racing at that location, shock markings needed to be made, because it is a public road. Hopefully, it could prevent illegal race.

"We're waiting for the evaluation in the next week or two. Because usually illegal racing is done on weekend nights. We'll hold a routine patrol," he added.