Yoga Adiwinarto said that the construction of a six-lane highway in a city that has been approved by the Governor of Jakarta, Joko Widodo yesterday, it will add to the congestion point.

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Yoga Adiwinarto said that the construction of a six-lane highway in a city that has been approved by the Governor of Jakarta, Joko Widodo yesterday, it will add to the congestion point.



Director of the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP) Indonesia, Yoga Adiwinarto said that the construction of a six-lane highway in a city that has been approved by the Governor of Jakarta, Joko Widodo yesterday, it will add to the congestion point.

Yoga does not deny that the construction of six-lane toll road will reduce congestion, but on the other hand, it has created the capacity of private vehicles which resulted in the addition of the volume of private vehicles, especially four-wheel vehicle.

"Per square kilometer can accommodate vehicles up to 1900 units of the car," he said when met at Balikota Yoga Jakarta on Wednesday.

For these reasons, yoga considers that the addition of a six-lane rule will add a point of congestion.

"Look at the non-toll highways in Casablanca, even make it bad," said Yoga.

According to him, the better the Provincial (Provincial) DKI Jakarta build toll roads between cities yuang connecting the city with satellite towns around it. This, he says, not only enhance growth Jakarta but also other areas.

"You should think of the accelerated development of inter-city highways such as the Trans Java," said Yoga.

He cited the construction of toll roads that connects Cipularang between Bandung and Jakarta.

The line was, he said, managed to increase economic growth in West Java.

"If the highway is being developed through Java, of course, other areas shared in the economic growth," he said.

A day earlier, the governor approved the construction of six Jokowi toll roads with the requirement that these roads are also impassable by vehicle.