As we all know that public transportation is really important to support the economy of each countries, I personally think that Trans Jakarta helping us in decreasing the traffic. Bus way is the government solution for citizen to decrease the amount of cars and pollution.
“Back to the TransJakarta project. Everybody knows that this idea was adapted from Bogota, Colombia. But in Bogota, they add the lane for the busway, NOT using the existing lanes as it is in Jakarta. Less car lanes, more traffic. The TransJakarta is meant to reduce the traffic and encourage car owners to use public transportation. Is it really happening? The way it seems, now the traffic jam occurs not only during the week days on Sudirman, but also during the weekends. Imagine if the busway operates on Rasuna Said: two fast lanes only. Imagine 5:00 PM weekdays driving through Rasuna Said and Warung Buncit. Nightmare.” Retrieved Monday, August 9, 2010, from http://parvita.wordpress.com/2006/08/26/jakarta-busway-getting-better-or-bitter/
I personally disagree with this statement that mention Trans Jakarta or Bus way not helping the society in increasing the traffic. Firstly if the Trans- Jakarta not helping, why people still use it? And secondly government makes this trans Jakarta because government tries to reduce the uses of private cars. If you think logically when the amounts of cars reduce slowly, the traffic will reduce slowly too. Imagine if government not make trans Jakarta, will Jakarta free from traffic. And in addition I personally believe this Trans Jakarta really helping people who not using private cars, but need some safety, comfortable, and save time, just like people who brings their own cars. Thirdly government not add the lane for Bus way because, if the government adds the new lanes for Bus way, which road will be take for the lane? Do you agree if government cuts or take lanes from the building beside the road? I do believe that take the lane is the best solution and also I do believe this regulation or Trans-Jakarta help to decrease the amount of traffic.
“The number of Transjakarta passengers keeps increasing over time. From January to November 2009, Transjakarta served approximately 6.8 million passengers per month, which is an 11 percent increase from the same period last year.” Jakarta post, The (2010) retrieved Tuesday, August 10, 2010, from http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2010/01/09/transjakarta039-transforms-jakartans039-travel-behavior.html
