Trains serving Soekarno-Hatta Airport to resume found in July
27 June, 2020
Airport coach operator PT Railink is likely to resume program between Jakarta stations and Soekarno-Hatta International Airport on July 1.
The company’s acting president director, Mukti Jauhari, said on Wednesday that Railink could have 50 scheduled daily departures in July. The company suspended operations in April as a result of the pandemic.
The subsidiary of state railway operator PT Kereta Api Indonesia (KAI) said it could comply with health and wellbeing protocols for rail transportation through the new normal period, as the federal government little by little relaxed restrictions to reopen the economy.
The business will operate trains at 70 percent of their passenger capacity during the first phase of reopening, as stipulated by Transportation Ministry Circular No.14/2020 on the maintenance of physical distance between passengers.
“We are getting ready to provide our customers with primary service during the new common period. Our personnel will implement wellbeing protocols; we will disinfect our conveniences; and you will have seat blocking to avoid the pass on of COVID-19,” he said in a news release on Wednesday.
The government’s large scale social restrictions (PSBB) led transportation companies through the entire country to suspend their services.
Railink will demand passengers to wear deal with masks, maintain physical length and also have their temperatures checked before departure and through the trip, Mukti added.
Railink’s parent enterprise, KAI, resumed 14 long-distance and 23 regional passenger train routes in June 12, after it suspended all passenger teach service in April following a government’s ban on the Idul Fitri traditions of mudik (exodus).
Predicated on KAI data, since the relaxation of the constraints, long-distance rail ridership grew to about 4,100 passengers about June 22 from about 1,100 passengers on June 12.
Ridership on inner-metropolis trains increased 35 percent from June 12 to about 25,300 passengers on June 22.
“The increase in passengers signals strong public rely upon KAI services through the new normal,” KAI spokesperson Joni Martinus said in a press release on Tuesday.
Source: www.thejakartapost.com
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