Serious traffic in Jakarta

Pondok Indah

JL. Pakubuwono

Countless people are coming to Jakarta, the capital city of Indonesia, where people are able to encounter to numerous entertainment as well as business; led up to overcrowded city. Moreover, the overcrowding has brought lots of serious problems; among them, traffic is one of the major problems in Jakarta. Traffic is happening almost everywhere. Due to public transport in Indonesia seems dangerous and dirty, those who have personal cars would rather use their own, than placing themselves in an overcrowded, unsafe bus. About a month ago, during Diigo time, I remember reading an article in the Jakarta Post. The article was about Jakarta’s awful traffic and pollution, which cause discontinuation of tourists from coming to Jakarta. These days, tourists choose to rather go to Bali, Yogjakarta or Sumatra. Furthermore, lots of businesses decided to begin in Bali, because more tourists are willing to visit Bali than Jakarta, where contains terrible traffic jam.

I cannot state that the government didn’t work on anything to solve a problem of traffic, because several years ago, they came up with three-in-one policy in order to limit the amount of cars on the road. Unfortunately, the new policy didn’t solve the problem well, because there was an illegal-paid- passenger, who was paid to meet the minimum amount of people in one car.

bus way

         Since last year, bus ways have been created in lots of different area in Jakarta. I believe bus ways are making the traffic jam worse than before, because those bus ways are for buses which go farer from place to place, not for local-Indonesia buses like Kopaja etc; bus way took one whole row out of 3 rows in a road. Due to not many buses are passing through the bus way, but only few of them per day, often I observed a situation of having serious traffic jam, while none of buses are on the bus way. For example, in Korea, we do have a bus way for both local and going far buses (they share the same line). However, due to they didn’t block the line between bus way and normal car way, other cars are allow to use a bus way when there aren’t any buses around them.