TransJakarta Queue in Manggarai Snaking Up Out Stops

VIVAnews – Traffic in front of the station and busway stops Manggarai very solid today, Monday, January 21, 2013. Traffic density is mainly due to passenger rail electricity (KRL) is entirely down Manggarai Station, South Jakarta.

Manggarai station to station the last stop for the KRL passengers who comprise the majority of commuting workers, since last Thursday, when major flooding hit Jakarta.

Floods soak it and some rail station in Jakarta, Sudirman, Tanah Abang, Jakarta and Kota. Rel in Sudirman eroded even as the West Flood Canal embankment collapsed in Latuharhary located next to railway crossings.

Disabling some of the station electric train from Bogor to make all or Tanah Abang Bekasi and Jakarta Kota Station stop at Manggarai. As a result, passengers in Manggarai was booming and was accommodated by the transport there. TransJakarta bus queues were snaking up Manggarai out stops.

Some service users TransJakarta finally chose to use taxis or taxi to their respective offices because they can not even get into the TransJakarta bus stops. Automatically they have to pay more for a motorcycle using the situation to raise the fare.

Wulan (25 years), one of the passengers KRL, saying he should have stopped at the station Gondangdia. But because KRL did not get there, so he was forced to stop in Manggarai. "The cost to the outside more because I had to take a taxi," he said in Manggarai, Jakarta.

PT KAI himself said KRL travel disruption Bogor-Jakarta that resulted in considerable losses for the company because it resulted in a decrease in passenger numbers.

"The decline in passengers by 25-30 per cent. If dirupiahkan, usually daily revenue reached Rp120 million, currently only Rp90, "said Deputy Head of Bogor station, Enjang Sharif Budiman. (umi)