It is now one of the most frequently asked questions: “Does the new Jakarta administration have an effective method to ease traffic?”
The answer is that not only one, but four methods would be applied at the same time to reduce the capital’s gridlock problem by 40 percent, by 2014.
City traffic police deputy director Adj. Sr. Comr. Wahyono said on Monday that his division and the Jakarta Transportation Agency had met on Friday to discuss several measures deemed effective to control the number of vehicles on the road.
“We have agreed to resort to the implementation of an electronic road pricing (ERP) system, firm enforcement of regulations on both traffic and spatial planning as well as vehicle limitation to achieve the targeted 40 percent reduction,” he said.
The police and the transportation agency were currently working on details on the traffic policy, Wahyono added.
Last week, newly installed Governor Joko “Jokowi” Widodo and Jakarta Police chief Insp. Gen. Putut Eko Bayuseno had promised to make “breakthroughs” in easing the city’s heavy traffic.
Jakarta is estimated to suffer from total gridlock by 2014 as the number of vehicles on the road has been rising by 11.26 percent every year, while the number of new roads has only increased by 0.01 percent each year.
Currently, according to traffic police data, 20.7 million people go in and out of the capital on a daily basis and 56.8 percent of them use their own vehicle.
The data also shows that on average, commuters need 120 minutes of travel time to get to their destination, with only 40 percent moving time.
Jokowi had previously said that he was optimistic about the implementation of the pricing system next year after the central government finally approved the pivotal legal basis for its execution.
The police had suggested that the administration set an ERP trip charge somewhere between Rp 50,000 (US$5.20) and Rp 100,000.
The city, however, has said that a trip charge of between Rp 6,500 and Rp 21,000 for the planned ERP system would be enough to reduce private vehicle use, reflecting inflation and economic growth.
“The pricing system is expected to discourage motorists from using private cars and use public transportation instead. But, we need a gubernatorial regulation for the implementation,” Wahyono said.
Besides the pricing system, Wahyono said that the police and the administration had also agreed to crack down on-street parking and sidewalk vendors to create more space for motorists.
“On-street parking and sidewalks vendors occupy space for motorists, narrowing the roads, leading to congestion,” he said.
Wahyono said that the police and administration would also deploy a number of transportation agency officers, Jakarta Public Order Agency (Satpol PP) and traffic police officers to 70 congestion-prone areas in the capital.
“The sources of congestion in those areas vary, besides they serve as main and busy roads. Officers from the agency and the Satpol PP are required to clamp down on on-street parking, sidewalk vendors and public transportation vehicles that stop illegally,” he said.
Wahyono, however, said that nothing mentioned above would work well if the numbers of vehicles in the capital kept increasing.
He said that the police and the administration would look over possible ways to limit the number of vehicles running on the city streets, deeming that banning Jakartans from buying new vehicles would be impossible.
“Banning people from buying cars may violate free trade, so the best we can do is to allow only certain vehicles — either by color, manufacture year or the number on its license plate — taking turns to run on the streets only on certain days,” he said.
- Total road length: 7,208 km
- Road growth: 0.01% per annum
- Total numbers of vehicle: 13,347,802
- Motorcycles: 9,861,451
- Passenger cars: 2,541,351
- Commercial vehicles: 581,290
- Buses: 363,710
Taken from HERE.
In general it is a really good idea to ease traffic in Jakarta. When I was there a few months ago me and my friend took 1.5 hours to reach the mall by using the car. It was horrible. You could use your time much better instead of waiting in the car, paying attention and concentrating on the street.
ReplyDeleteElectronic road pricing systems exist in many other countries and it could be a good way to decrease the amount of cars and motorbikes but the poorer ones will suffer from this solution. Vehicle limitations by allowing only certain vehicles by color or manufacturer year sounds not convincing. Car companies could increase their power by bribing the government in order that their cars will be allowed on the streets.
In my opinion the best solution would be a metro system. Many people would use it for going to work or in the city because the streets are just too crowded.
I agree with Theresa. Jakarta needs a working subway system. As I heard from friends the government already tried once to introduce a subway but there was so much corruption that it was not build in the end. Here the people should really make pressure on the government. Because a city with over 20 million people cannot rely on a traffic system of cars and motorbikes, they need bus and subway.
ReplyDeleteWhen they just want to forbid more cars this is no solution because people still need to go to work. As a first step they should buy a lot of modern busses and invest a lot into a system so that they can work on time. And for the next 10 years they should introduce a working metro system.
Exactly, this is so true! I cannot believe what I read in this article! Definitively, the Indonesians have to explain to me why there is no underground in Jakarta and, worst of all why the current government do not build an underground in Jakarta instead of seeking inappropriate solutions such as the ERP system! It seems to me that the only way to solve this problem is clearly to construct an efficient transport system with regular bus lines and underground railways. In doing so, if public transport allows the people to move quickly and especially commuters, they will stop taking their car. What could be more logical!
DeleteI really agree to the statement that traffic jam in Jakarta should be eased. As from the article, I think allowing only certain vehicles is not the best solution for this problem. People need to be persuaded to use more public transportation rather than private transportation because this is one of the root cause of traffic jam in Jakarta. Government can impose a great tax burden on private vehicles' ownership so that people will consider twice to afford vehicles. This results to the decline of private vehicles used in traffic and incline of public vehicles. However, government should also improve the quality and quantity of public transportation for passenger's convenient and safety as a feedback to the society. Singapore and Japan are the perfect examples of this solution. It might be a bit difficult to implement this idea in Jakarta since the infrastructures of the government are in a mess. But I highly hope that the new governor can dissolve the heavy traffic jam problem in Jakarta.
ReplyDeleteI really agree with you Dwi about how to reduce traffic jams in Jakarta , like imposing more taxes on private vehicles , so like in European country we can use more public transportation in our daily activities. But as we know , every year , the government always promise to reduce traffic jams in Jakarta, however it's never be realized by the government because government don't act firmly about this issue and some of them are corruptors , sometimes they corrupt the money for rebuilding the city of Jakarta , so the program of reducing traffic jams doesn't work properly like what people expect.
DeleteSomehow, the problem lies within society and wellbeing of Indonesian people. Inequality among levels of society, poor lower class citizens don't benefit from education.
ReplyDeleteI heard that few days ago, Swedish Prime Minister, Fredrik Reindfeldt, offered to help solve Jakarta’s seemingly incurable traffic. He said investments in the public transport sector, including in the development of railways and highways, were needed. This could be true.. but as you know there are always " buts " after that..
If we are going build metro system or subway, first goverment or PT. KAI at least must rectify their management. Ever tried PRAMEX economic class? It's like people jammed into one place even some people dare to sit on the roof ( I don't think "sit" is a suitable word though )
Traffic in Jakarta is really ugly. This is actually the main reason why I don’t go back to Jakarta very often. I remember in 2004, my uncle used to drive all the way to Jakarta for work. He had to wake up early and go back late at night. Gridlock has brought so many negative effects to him: he always look tired, has less time to talk to his children, he had urine problem (for holding urine for hours). Fortunately, he lives near train station, so he tried to take train to work. Taking public transportation had brought him so many advantages: he saves more money, he looked healthier since then, he has time to communicate with his children, and he’s even on time for work since the train mostly arrives on time.
ReplyDeleteI agree with the ERP pricing. Nevertheless, they should increase the public transportation quality. There are still many thieves and criminals wandering around Jakarta. Comfort and safety is the main reason why people chose to drive their own vehicles. If only government can overcome public transportation issues, I’d have high hopes for Jakarta.
When I hear the word “Jakarta”, the first thing that pops up in my mind is traffic jam. As the capital of Indonesia, Jakarta has a poor transportation system compared to other capitals. Well, it is true that the government has a big responsibility to solve the traffic jam problem in Jakarta, but in my opinion, every government’s efforts will be useless if the society has no willingness to reduce the traffic jam. One of the good examples is when the government applies three-in-one system in Jakarta. The government applies this system in order to reduce the amount of cars in Jakarta. But what do the societies do? They use three-in-one jockey instead of using public transportations. In conclusion, traffic jam problem in Jakarta need both of the government and the society to solve it.
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Jakarta is the center of all economics activities in Indonesia, and it’s reaching its best moment now. But traffic jam seems impeding the rate of the economic growth. Thus putting traffic jam to its end has been one of the most important duties that the government really needs to do. I think the plans that have been mentioned above will work well in reducing the number of traffic jam. It will discourage the motorists to use their own vehicle and use public transportation instead. So now the question is, has the public transportation in Jakarta fulfilled the standard of safety? We’ve enough heard the news about the explosion of some Busway (one of the public transportation in Jakarta) these days. So if the government wants to reduce the traffic jam, they need to improve the safety standard of the public transportations first. They need to convince the people in Jakarta that the public transportations are safe and comfortable.
ReplyDeleteWhen I visited Jakarta a few months ago the enormous amount of traffic and the resulting traffic jams were the first things I realized. For sure, somethings needs to be done to improve the traffic situation, but I don´t think that just introducing a pricing system or limiting the allowed number of cars and motorbikes is a suitable and helping solution.
ReplyDeleteIn fact, this traffic results from people that really have and need to go somewhere, for reasons like getting to their work or home. And any set limitation will not change these reasons. Therefore an alternative transportation method should be provided. The public transportation system, such as buses and most ideal a subway, needs to be improved first. This is from my point of view the starting point for government, everything else only makes conditions worse and can even be a risk for the economy, when people have no possibility to get to there jobs anymore.
In my opinion, implementing this kind of pricing system is not best solution for reducing traffic in Jakarta. Impose trip charge for the planned ERP system would be enough to reduce private vehicle use, reflecting inflation and economic growth? I don’t think so. Take a look data, even the poverty is not solve yet in Jakarta, the rich people and upper middle class is getting higher every time. It doesn’t bother people much anyway. Even i don’t think so all people will pay the charge; example did all people in Jakarta pay the tax frequently? Otherwise, will all the money from this pricing system arrive at the right side?
ReplyDeleteThe main problem of the traffic in Jakarta is the infra-structure itself. The road and public transport facility has very low quality. Public transport in Jakarta such as bus, metro mini, angkot is really bad in quality which produces high pollution. The driver is really crazy in driving also. Also, they don’t have such a terminal or bus stop for take the passenger, so they stop wherever and whenever they like. It is different in the other country, which has a official bus stop and time schedule for public transport. So, the driver did not hesitate to leave his passenger, otherwise the passenger should come on time and in the right place. So, how to solve the Jakarta’s traffic? Let’s see and wait our new governor and his people action who “hopefully” are clever than us.
Traffic jam is one of main problems in Jakarta. Jakarta as a capital city and business central should have less traffic problem than it is now. Traffic jam has been proven to reduce work and economic efficiency. Not just reduce efficiency, the traffic problem also causing a big loss to certain people & companies.
ReplyDeleteI agree with the idea of ERP, but I think the government should pay more attention to Public Transport first. A lot of people in Jakarta won't use public transport because it has poor services. For example buses in Jakarta usually are steered by drivers who does not have a driving license (K*P*J*, M*tr*m*n*); moreover they often caught in several accidents and not obeying some rules. The second reason for avoiding public transport is minimum number of vehicles needed compared to whole population, which has an impact on passenger’s comfort. I Hope the new governor can fix most of Jakarta’s problem especially the traffic by adding more public vehicle and improve its services & facilities.
Everyone must have already known about how bad Jakarta traffic jam is. Many years have passed, and seems like no even one governor had ever succeeded reducing Jakarta's traffic jam even for 1%. They just made it worse and worse. How did that happen ? They just made many projects "named" reducing Jakarta's traffic jam. But in fact, many of them were just aiming for the profits they could get from the project. Maybe we can use the Singapore's law of vehicle owning. Every time someone buy a vehicle, the vehicle is whether for daily use ( Monday - Friday ) or for weekend use ( Saturday - Sunday ). And it cannot be used for both of the usages. For each usage, it has its own color of the vehicle registration number. So, the public transportation will be used more often by more people. But remembering that Indonesia is a developing country, it will be difficult to implant a new law like this.
ReplyDeleteJakarta, the traffic city. Once I read in a magazine that in the future the vehicles can't even move anymore in Jakarta because of the heavy traffic. I imagined what it feels to live in that city. Jakarta suppose to be the face of Indonesia. It represents the urban life of this country. Unfortunately, the big numbers of vehicles in there make the city uncomfortable to be stayed anymore. I heard from my friend who lives there, it takes her 1.5 hours to get to her university. Can you imagine that? 1.5 hours just to sit in your car almost everyday? It's such a waste of time. The government tried to make students came earlier to school to ease the traffic jam before, but it's not very effective. If Jokowi-Ahok really want to reduce traffic jam, they must take a firm attitude about it. The problem about this country is there are so many rules, it's been done, but if there's someone breaks the rules the government doesn't give a firm punishment and many of them are bribed by the violators.
ReplyDeleteTraffic Jam in Jakarta is a major case which is needed to be solved by the government. I was born in Jakarta, but I’m grateful enough that I don’t live there. When I was about to choose any universities in Indonesia, my father suggested me to choose UI. Then I was thinking and imagining how it would be live in Depok. The first thing on my mind was the traffic jam. You may say I’m outmoded but truthfully I don’t like the wild style, pollution, traffic jam in Jakarta and surrounding areas. It is true that we need the government’s effort, but awareness from the citizens is the most important, I think. Although the government applies ERP system and other systems, the citizens have to obey the traffic regulation. In fact one of a big cause of the traffic jam is the careless feeling by people. They don’t want to give in and tolerate others. Also the drivers of public transportations, they do what they want and never care that their manners injure other people. I think the government should solve this problem then the traffic jam can be reduced and the government’s effort will be orderly controlled.
ReplyDeleteReducing traffic jam in jakarta is not easy. In one side, automotive industry is one of the biggest industry that has biggest contribution to increase Indonesia's GDP but in one side the increasing number of car and motorcycle is not followed by the increasing number and condition of the road. In my opinion, the government cannot limit the number of car and motorcycle in Indonesia, but i can be minimized by maintaining and build a good mass-transportation in Jakarta for instance monorail and sub way. Making a good public transportation does not means that it has not problems. First, making public transport is costly. Second, in process of the project, it can make the traffic jam more complicated because the government has to set the alternative road. The third, making something is easier than maintaining. We know that government is already making something that support the public transportation such as busway but the user cannot maintain the facilities that we know that so many shelter of busway si already broken because of the behavior of the Jakarta's people.
ReplyDeleteJakarta aims to reduce traffic by 40 percent in 2 years: It is simply utopian. It is very hard to reduce the traffic jam in a city, especially in a city such as Jakarta. How they can believe that they shall manage to reduce the traffic (almost of half) in only 2 years. Having said that, it is a good initiative. But personally, I think that it is not feasible.
ReplyDeleteI have never been to Jakarta (only in the airport), and unfortunately I don't think of having time to go during my stay in Indonesia. Numerous persons said to me that it was not an attractive city: many buildings, pollution and traffic jam. I hope to have one day the opportunity to go there, to make me my own opinion.
I was in Jakarta the first time when I was eight years old. At that time the amount of traffic shocked me, as an endless number of cars and scooters were on the road. Turning left or right with a taxi seemed to be impossible and crossing a road by foot was my hardest challenge ever. I was afraid of being crashed and killed by a car although sitting in a taxi myself. I still can remember me and my brother gathering in the middle of the car so that nothing can happen to us. At that time Indonesians drove even more crazy and our taxi crashed a young mother with a stroller.
ReplyDeleteWhen I stayed in Jakarta a few months ago, 19 years later, a lot has changed since then. The streets are better organized and not that crowded anymore. This might be due to the fact that the commuter line was established meanwhile and mini buses try to reduce the traffic. Anyway, the amount of traffic is still too high and needs to be reduced. I would like Jakarta to extend the reach of the commuter line as well as the number of trains using it. It is a comfortable means of transportation even if one has to stand, and can transport plenty of people at the same time.
Reducing the traffic in Jakarta is very important. I was shocked when I had to spend 3 hours in the car in Jakarta just to get to my friends house which would take me only 30 minutes if there would´nt be any traffic. It is impossible to reduce the traffic with those ideas that are described in this article.The government should try to copy the ideas of Singapore. Singapore has increased spending on public transport and reduced the number of new car licenses to rein in auto sales. Car buyers in Singapore must pay for excise and registration duties of about 150 percent of the vehicle’s market value, as well as bid for a limited number of government permits, called certificates of entitlement, that allow a car on the road for 10 years. The cost of a permit alone would now buy a new Porsche in the U.S. The Singaporean government aims to make public transport the “choice mode” for Singaporeans. In my opinion, the Ministry of Transport in Jakarta should rather spent their money to build subway lines, train stations and an expressway.
ReplyDeleteI, personally, have never experienced a really bad traffic line. This maybe because I never had to drive and deal with such conditions. Reducing traffic in a city such as Jakarta requires a lot of work or else it’s impossible. It takes more than one to reduce the traffic caused in Jakarta. Everyone should try to work together and use public transport more often. Governments should invest more on improving the qualities of public transport so that more people would be attracted and interested in using it. However, if not enough effort is put in, the amount of traffic will get out of hand and control.
ReplyDeleteJakarta is now very crowded. Many private vehicles on the road. It is good when government has a plan to reduce the traffic jam by forty percent in the next two years. Electronic Road Pricing maybe can reduce many vehicles. But I think, the government should balance it with repairing the public transportation so people prefer use public transportation rather than their own vehicle or government can impose higher tax for the private vehicles so people will think twice to buy it. Government should also think about the effect of reducing vehicles.
ReplyDeleteIts good to hear that Jakarta government have a target to reduce the traffic 40% in 2 years. Seem impossible but we have to appreciate it. Jakarta’s traffic problem is really complex, need a commitment to solve it. Increasing the private vehicles can be a good idea, but government still have to see that having a vehicles is their right. Make a good and integrated public transportation can be the best way to reduce the traffic. Make the public transportation as the first choice for the people is the most realible solution. The public transport has to be in well facilities, effective and integrated so that automatically people tend to use public transport rather than private vehicle.
ReplyDeleteWithin these past three months, I went to Jakarta twice and the traffic that I felt was so horrible. Usually it takes only one to two hours from the airport to Bogor, but then because of the traffic which is getting worse, it took about five hours from the airport to Bogor. The government should be really serious in handling this problem, because as the article stated above, numbers of vehicles on the road has been rising by 11.26% per year while numbers of new roads only increased by 0.01% per year. If the government only makes some plans and doesn’t apply or do any action, the traffic in Jakarta will be getting terrible. In my opinion, to reduce the number of private vehicles, the government should improve the quality of the public transportation and impose more tax on the private vehicles so that people will prefer using public transportation rather than using their own vehicles.
ReplyDeleteJakarta is a magnificent city in Indonesia. I think Jakarta is also the biggest polluters as the number of vehicles in Jakarta, which almost cover all roads. Jakarta today is really solid. Not only is packed with people, but also packed with vehicles. Almost every head of a family has two or more motor vehicles, whether car or motorcycle. Not only that, but also there are public transport and other public transport to meet the city. The data in the article above so prove density of Jakarta, "Jakarta is estimated to Suffer from total gridlock by 2014 as the number of vehicles on the road has been rising by 11.26 percent every year, while the number of new roads has only Increased by 12.01 percent each year. Currently, According to traffic police data, 20.7 million people go in and out of the capital on a daily basis and 56.8 percent of them use their own vehicle. ". When the government knows the city has a plan to improve traffic congestion, I feels happy because soon I can feel the city is not crowded vehicle. However, I do not agree if only private vehicles are overcome. But the government must also improve existing public transport and guarantee the safety and comfort of passengers using public transport.
ReplyDeleteFor me traffic jam remains as the biggest problem that Jakarta has. One of the most supporting reasons is that because Jakarta has a poor public transportation system yet there are a lot of private vehicle such as cars and motorcycles, and if that wasn’t enough problems to be solved, some public transportation like Metro Mini, Kopaja and angkot doesn’t care about other traffic users: they just turn and park wherever they like. Only in Jakarta there can be a traffic jam on toll road EVERY DAY. So I think the sum of cars and motorcycles are just too much and the reason is because there aren’t a lot of options of proper and comfortable public vehicle. We could have MRT, monorail or perhaps more train to reduce the amount of private vehicles in Jakarta. I just wish that government and people can work this out together so that Jakarta will be a better place.
ReplyDeleteI think from one of the plan itself is not going to reduce vehicle in streets effectively: "Besides the pricing system, Wahyono said that the police and the administration had also agreed to crack down on-street parking and sidewalk vendors to create more space for motorists.". There are already someways that government of Jakarta can do to reduce congestion such as enlarging the roads, giving penalties for who drive less than 2 passenger. However, It failed. The only hope for Jakarta to reduce its congestion is whether to wait for the oil price increase or to build an MRT or monorail with cheap price of course.
ReplyDeleteTraffic jam in Jakarta is too mad. Jakarta is a city where all of the economic and government activities take place. Why don't we move the capital city to somewhere else? just like USA who doing economic activities in New York and doing government activities in Washington. I think reducing the sum of vehicles will be useless and moving the capital city will give a significant impact.
ReplyDeleteTraffic jams in Jakarta is the hardest issue ever to be solved. Reducing traffic jams without the help of its citizen would be impossible. When I started to live here in Jogja and compared the traffic condition with Jakarta, Jakarta’s traffic jams nowadays is way out of control. The number of private vehicle in Jakarta is increasing by the minute. We can’t fully blame the government for its slow pace of new roads construction. If you take a look closer now, Jakarta turns into the city of concrete.
ReplyDeleteIf government wants to reduce traffic jams in Jakarta, they have to cooperate with car dealers. Nowadays, it’s very easy to have cars. You already can get a nice car with just Rp100million. If that’s the case, people would rather to own a car than taking public transportation. Besides that, public transportation in Jakarta is not a very comfortable everyday transportation. Transjakarta is not so different after all. You still stuck in traffic jams too.
I think that the government needs to act decisively. Even though it’s heavy for everybody, I agree with the administration set an ERP trip charge somewhere between Rp50,000 (US$5.20) and Rp100,000. This also means that government needs to improve public transportation in Jakarta.
I believe that Jokowi is able to reduce the traffic in Jakarta, no matter the percentages are reduce. Because, Jokowi plans to install MRT (Mass Rapid Transportation) in the most crowded place in Jakarta. And the main reason why Jakarta people prefer to use their private vehicles is because the poor public transportation in Jakarta. And other reason is because the oil price in Indonesia still cheap. Imagine if the price of oil in Indonesia is near as high as non-subsidize oil and have a good public transport, people will prefer not using their private vehicles.
ReplyDeleteAnd I have a recommendation for Indonesian government, it is better to give subsidize to the citizen who purchase their next car in 10 years from their predecessor. This principle already applied in France, and I think it really works on how to reduce the growth of vehicle purchases. Also It will control the pollution in Indonesia, since the old cars are replaced with the better emission vehicles.
Traffic jam in Jakarta is really bad. Even I feel sluggish to go to Jakarta because it takes a long time to travel from one place to another. It is so hard to solve this problem since government cannot reduce the trasportations in Jakarta. Government tries to eliminate the transportation by enacting laws to reduce the amount of private tranaportation in Jakarta roads. But then it raises another problem because everyone needs to transport everyday. I think the best solution is to make use of the public transportation. Not only like Transjakarta but government should seek the alternative ones, like build subway rail which is not using the same route as usual road.
ReplyDeleteI don't think it will be reduced by 40 percent in two years period. It is very hard to reduce traffic in Jakarta, because there are 20 million people go in and out every day in Jakarta. Even more than half of them using their own vehicle. If the ideas are to build subway and install MRT, it may reduce the traffic. But not 40 percent. I would rather suggest to increase the tax for car and parking in Jakarta, along with the subway project. When the taxes and parking charge are very high, people will prefer to use subway than paying high parking charges.
ReplyDeleteI think there are two main things that cause the madness of traffic in Jakarta. First, Jakarta's public transportation is not good enough. Most of the vehicles are already too old so it creates pollution. The drivers of public transportation drives dangerously so accidents happen a lot. Also, many crimes were done in public transportation from robbery to even kidnapping. In result, only few people choose to use public transportation. Second, because public transportation is not favorable, many people choose to use private transportation like motorcycle or car. Beside that Jakarta also have way too much motorcycle riders. They're swarming roads. Moreover, it's very easy here to have a motorcycle. Here, you pay 300.000 rupiahs and you get a motorcycle right away.
ReplyDeleteTraffic in Jakarta needs to be reduced. Most of people in Jakarta are spending half of their time on the road. Of course it is very disturbing of most people who live there. If government states that they will reduce the Traffic in Jakarta by 40 percent, I hope it will be true. I agree that government need to reduce the number of vehicles in Jakarta and persuades people to use public transportation. There are a lot of public transportation in Jakarta, so it’ll be better for the citizen to use them often. Government needs to consider all of people in Jakarta. Maybe two vehicles from one family are enough because most of people in Jakarta have more than 4 vehicles at home and no wonder Jakarta’s traffic is severe.
ReplyDeleteJakarta traffic is really horrible. There are a lot of opinion to solve the Jakarta traffic, such as installing MRT, charges more car taxes, increasing parking charge, etc. All of them are seems pretty good idea. Unfortunately, the fundamental problem has not been solve yet. Jakarta with high level of crime could be the main problem. People will prefer to use their private car rather than using "trans Jakarta" because of safety problem. It is true that we will safe inside the bus, but how about when we were on pedestrian from home to the station. Even we installing MRT, I doubt that it will reduce the used of private car. When we want to solve the problem, we have to see the root cause, not only the symptoms which usually appear in the surface and looks like a problem. Therefore, I believe that having good security system which follow by providing comfort mass transportation will significantly solve the traffic problem in Jakarta.
ReplyDeleteJakarta traffic is going into a stuck condition in two years; some expert stated that. Government need to make an initiative to prevent that condition. In my opinion there are two ways to make Jakarta Government vision to reduce traffic will happen. First one Government has to rearrange all of public transportation in Jakarta. They should make a new blueprint to their public transportation, city bus such as Kopaja and Metro Mini should be better prepared for passenger’s convenience, Trans Jakarta should be raised in terms of their unit availability and also their convenience for the passenger, and MRT (Mass Rapid Transportation) system should be faster in their procuring. Therefore people will feel comfort when they want to go to their business with the public transportation rather than go with their private car. The second way is Government has to solve Jakarta classic problem which is deluge. When the huge rain came, it always deluge surrounded the city and traffic jam is everywhere in the city. Thus the provincial government need preparing a good drainage system to prevent that condition.
ReplyDeleteI think it will be very difficult for them to do that. Maybe it’s just like Indonesian government who are trying to reduce the corruptions in the past few years. But, regardless of the possibility, the idea was very good. We have to set our target as high as possible. And about the solution, i agree with what Patrick said. By improving the quality of their public transport such as build a more convenience bus stop, improve the accuracy of their arrival and departure, and expand the number of public transport, people who are all tired of facing the heavy traffic would prefer to choose public transport rather than their own vehicle. Can this strategy reduce traffic by 40 percent in 2 years? Only time that can answer it.
ReplyDeleteTraffic jam is a common thing in Jakarta. It happens almost in every road in this big city, especially in rush hours: before and after the working hours. It's enough to make us dizzy, irritable, and cranky due to traffic jam that occurs. I think, the traffic jam is caused by an imbalance between the increase in the number of vehicles and the increase in the number of road. During this time the number of vehicles is rapidly increasing while the accretion of road has no significant increase. Secondly, the factor that also contribute to traffic congestion is many riders who are not disciplined and do not obey the traffic rules. This condition is exacerbated by the number of Jakarta residents that growing much due to urbanization.
ReplyDeleteI was just once in Jakarta and that was already enough. I think I spend the whole time in the bus or in the taxi. I did not see much from the city. Even in the night there were still traffic jams- unbelievable. I would get crazy if i have to work there. I mean Jakarta is the industrial heart of Indonesia. It is obvious that there are the most cars due to the fact that many people with good salary are living there. The number of cars will increase in the next years, that is why i really hope that the Indonesian government introduces a public transport system- and not only in Jakarta. I see the same in Jogjakarta. Friends told me that the city is way more crowded in comparison to three years ago.
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