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AHEAD OF IDUL FITRI HOLIDAY
Mudik bikers will have an easier ride
NU Online · Ahad, 1 Agustus 2010 | 23:24 WIB
Jakarta, NU Online
An expected surge in motorcyclists leaving the capital for traditional Ramadan-ending celebrations has led the government to prepare more cargo space on board trains and ferries for the bikes, a high-ranking transportation official said on Saturday.
The peak of the exodus, popularly known as mudik, occurs in the last few days of the fasting month, as people head home for the Idul Fitri celebration, which falls on Sept. 10 and 11 this year.r />
An estimated 3.6 million motorcyclists are expected to leave Jakarta for the journey this year, up 15 percent from 2009.
Sugandi, head of interprovincial traffic at the Ministry of Transportation’s Directorate General of Railways, said trains heading out of the capital would be outfitted with an extra cargo car exclusively for motorcycles.
“We’ll offer the service from 10 days before Idul Fitri to four days after it has finished [Aug. 29 to Sept. 14],” he said. “It will be for trains to Semarang [in Central Java] and Surabaya departing from the Kota and Tanjung Priok stations in North Jakarta.”
Sugandi said the ministry would prepare eight new train cars, each able to hold up to 50 motorcycles. “We expect to transport up to 4,000 motorcycles this year, up from 1,659 last year,” he said.
However, that figure amounts to only 0.01 percent of the total number of motorcycles expected to hit the road this year.
Ferry operators PT Pelni, PT Dharma Lautan Utama and PT Prima Vista are outfitting 20 ferries to carry up to 1,406 motorcycles each from ports in resource-rich Kalimantan to Java.
PT ASDP, a state-owned lake transportation management company, is preparing a special ferry to transport motorcycles.
“We’ve authorized ASDP to carry 150 motorcycles and Dharma Lautan Utama to carry 90 motorcycles from Tanjung Priok Port in Jakarta to Tanjung Emas Port in Semarang and Tanjung Perak Port in Surabaya,” said Bobby Mamahit, from the Ministry of Transportation’s Directorate General of Maritime Affairs. (jg/dar)
An expected surge in motorcyclists leaving the capital for traditional Ramadan-ending celebrations has led the government to prepare more cargo space on board trains and ferries for the bikes, a high-ranking transportation official said on Saturday.
The peak of the exodus, popularly known as mudik, occurs in the last few days of the fasting month, as people head home for the Idul Fitri celebration, which falls on Sept. 10 and 11 this year.
An estimated 3.6 million motorcyclists are expected to leave Jakarta for the journey this year, up 15 percent from 2009.
Sugandi, head of interprovincial traffic at the Ministry of Transportation’s Directorate General of Railways, said trains heading out of the capital would be outfitted with an extra cargo car exclusively for motorcycles.
“We’ll offer the service from 10 days before Idul Fitri to four days after it has finished [Aug. 29 to Sept. 14],” he said. “It will be for trains to Semarang [in Central Java] and Surabaya departing from the Kota and Tanjung Priok stations in North Jakarta.”
Sugandi said the ministry would prepare eight new train cars, each able to hold up to 50 motorcycles. “We expect to transport up to 4,000 motorcycles this year, up from 1,659 last year,” he said.
However, that figure amounts to only 0.01 percent of the total number of motorcycles expected to hit the road this year.
Ferry operators PT Pelni, PT Dharma Lautan Utama and PT Prima Vista are outfitting 20 ferries to carry up to 1,406 motorcycles each from ports in resource-rich Kalimantan to Java.
PT ASDP, a state-owned lake transportation management company, is preparing a special ferry to transport motorcycles.
“We’ve authorized ASDP to carry 150 motorcycles and Dharma Lautan Utama to carry 90 motorcycles from Tanjung Priok Port in Jakarta to Tanjung Emas Port in Semarang and Tanjung Perak Port in Surabaya,” said Bobby Mamahit, from the Ministry of Transportation’s Directorate General of Maritime Affairs. (jg/dar)
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