Transportation in Jakarta
Jakarta is a very busy city with high population. Traffic jam always happen everyday. Traffic jam is caused by too many transportation and the bad habit in driving. Most of them are public transportation such as bus, metromini and bajaj . Beside that, personal transportation such as cars and motorcycles also contribute a lot for Jakarta's traffic. Traffic jam waste not only the car solar but most importantly is also people's time and energy. The crowded street makes people even more stressful, considering they already have a busy day in mind. People have to wake up earlier in the morning if they don't want to be caught into traffic and they also come home late, which means they have less time to rest after having such a busy day of work. Less time to rest means people will get more tired, have less focus and concentration on doing their work on the next day. These leads to poor quality of labour and so poorer quality and also quantity of the products they produce. In conclusion, traffic is one thing that most of Indonesian citizens come into everyday and it has been happening for years. However, we don't realize that this simple thing can make a huge impact to Indonesia's economy, and it is often neglected by the government. In fact, this can be avoided by reducing the use of personal transportation, and maximize the use of busway, building terminals for buses and metrominis so that they do not to stop in inappropriate spots. We wish the goverment gives more attention to the traffic problems especially at the most crowded streets and overcome this problem as soon as possible.
Vern Nadia Aulia
Transportation in Jakarta
BalasHapusNowadays, people in Jakarta most likely use busway for their transportation.
Busway
There are many kinds of transportation which are used by the people around Jakarta, such as taxi, metromini, bajaj, motorcycle, bycycle, and busway. The commuters preference choice of public transport would be busway, due to its comfort, safety, and security reasons. Therefore, People are willing to pay more expensive and prefer to use busway than other transportation. Now, i would like to explain more about busway and the reasons why people choose busway for their transportations. Busway or Transjakarta is bus rapid transport system which is a public transportation in Jakarta established by government sector. There are several reasons why busway is more often used as a means of transportation. The first reason is busway can safe cost. For example, if we compare between busway and taxi, busway is cheaper than taxi because it leads to the same place, direction or destination and both provide comfort and security. Busway only pay once just 3,500 rupiah, but taxi must be paid according to the meter fare. Next, busway allows to save our transport cost by not having to pay any maintenance fee. Unlike a private car, busway is provided by the government so we do not have to pay the taxs and the insurances. Furthermore, busway does not pollute the air compare to other transportations. We can reduce pollution and maintain greenery in Jakarta by reducing the use of own vehicles or private cars, and other transportations which are used diesel fuel. In conclusion, busway is one of a good public transportation for the citizens in Jakarta because it is more faster and it is more efficient. People do not go far away to approach road busway station because it has been available for pedestrian bridges for people who want to ride and buy a ticket. Busway station is also easy to find because it is located strategically in every district or shopping centre.
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