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| Parking Near Vice President`s House, 6 Cars PadlockedBERITAJAKARTA.COM — 3/17/2010 4:18:37 PM
Padlocking the vehicles parked arbitrarily has been implemented by
Jakarta Dept. of Transportation does not make drivers give up. Many
drivers still park their vehicle without paying attention to the
regulation. As many as six cars were padlocked by South Jakarta Officer
of Transportation Department when they were parked on Jl. Buncit Raya,
Mampangprapatan, Wednesday (3/17). In coincidence, the Vice President
Boediono`s residence is on that street.
To support the regulation, eight personnel are deployed to the location.
Two of them are policemen. South Jakarta Transportation Sub-department
has prepared 60 locks to anticipate the great number of vehicles
violating the parking regulation.
South Jakarta Head of Section for Supervision and Operational Control of
Transportation Sub-department, Syahrizul, said that the illegal parking
control was in accordance with Act. No 22/2009 on Traffic and
Transportation.
Meanwhile, to control illegal parking, the sub-department has
coordinated with Police department.
“Today, we focus on Jl. Buncit Raya, particularly in front of
Immigration office. Because the location is environment of vice
president residence, so it should be in order,” Syahrizul confirmed,
Wednesday (3/17).
Besides that, his side will continuously control the illegal parking
along Busway corridor VI. Actually, the controlling is only done for the
cars left by the owner.
His department will keep doing control in every location to make the
people who arbitrarily park their vehicle give up.
Fransisca (31), whose car was padlocked, admitted that she was shocked
by the padlocking but she agreed with the regulation.
"I just follow the people who park here. If my car was finally
padlocked, it’s ok. In principle, if there is such control, I was fine.
The process is not too difficult. We are just recorded and get the
ticket," said this resident of Mampang said.
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