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rayman · Joined: 24 May 2003 Posts: 427

Having been out of the country for a period, I'm curious to hear how construction of the new busway lines are coming along. Particularly the one running along Rasuna Said. Have the stations been built? Any idea on a completion time?

xsbir · Joined: 09 Oct 2006 Posts: 81 Location: The Big Durian

Busway fares to go up by month's end
JAKARTA: The city administration is planning to raise busway fares at the end of the month when four new corridors start operating.

Although the city's transportation board has yet to decide how much the fare will be raised by, the Jakarta Transportation Agency has assured it will continue to apply a single fare system.

"The increase is necessary to prevent the subsidy straining the city budget due to the high cost of operating seven busway corridors," board chairman Soetanto Soehodho said Thursday at City Hall.

Agency head Nurrachman said the cost of subsidizing the transportation service this year would be Rp 382 billion due to the operation of the new corridors.

He said that by raising the fare from Rp 3,500 to Rp 5,000, for example, the administration could reduce the subsidy cost by 73 percent. -- JP

That's the latest news in today's Jakarta Post. I use the busway everyday to get to work, and I think it's the best thing that's happened in Jakarta in the past 10 years.

gugelhupf · Joined: 24 Jan 2004 Posts: 575 Location: Jabotabek

If you live near a busway station and work near another it is undoubtedly a godsend. The first Jakarta mass public transport that actually works. Unfortunately for most people the time taken to get to a busway station by any other means makes it no quicker.

In the same edition of the Jak Post is a story that motorbikes are to be banned from major thoroughfares in Jakarta so as to make room for more cars. I'm sure there is some logic in there somewhere but I'm too thick to see it.

alicantik · Joined: 05 Dec 2004 Posts: 23 Location: Brisbane

What about the monorail? Is that up and running? (no pun intended)

happy_me · Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2007 3:31 pm Post subject:

Thank me I am not in that city anymore, and i hope i never have any need to live there any time in my life!!!
Sorry its just not a nice place, FOR ME!!

Atoms for Peace · Joined: 06 Feb 2006 Posts: 135 Location: NKRI

Jakarta governor Sutiyoso is trying to ban motorbikes from main streets in Jakarta, presumably because he wants to be popular with all those car drivers who will then vote for him as governor in the forthcoming election.

Like most ex-military pigs, Sutiyoso cannot see the big picture, ie that there are more motorbike owners (and users, if you count 'ojek' passengers) than rich car drivers, and they get to vote too...

The busway is a good idea, but with only 50 buses in total for the three new routes, is not being used to its full potential.

The money for the monorail has temporarily dried up, but the city administration hopes to have it finished by the end of this year, and in operation by next. Let's hope the fact that the concrete-reinforcing rods on the unfinished supports have been exposed to the elements for months hasn't caused them to rust...

No wonder the pushbike is coming back into fashion...