The transportation problem of Jakarta is traffic jump which has long been a nightmare
for the resident and people who has important assignment to the capital city.
The worriedness of the great problem has born a theory hat in 2014 Jakarta's traffic
will collaps, due to the growth of car is faster and that the capacity of the
road. It is like frightening myth but logically sure it could happened. Under
Mr. Sutiyoso, kown as Bang Yos, a revolutionary idea has been done to free the
people from the myth. With his talented staff Mr. Rustam Effendi the governor
Sutiyoso developped " Macro Transportation Scheme ( JMaTS )" This program
integrates all public transportations which have been existing long time as government
companies such as Busway, light rail Transit ( LRT ), Mass Rapid Transit ( MRT
), River - Lake - Strait Crossing ( ASDP ) with JMaTS which uses 3 basis of transportations
: land, rail, water and traffic restraint. This integrated program is expeced
to complete by 2007 or latest by 2010. First step toward the realization of this
great idea is the Trans Jakarta Busway which was started in 15 January 2004. The
program of JMaTS has a great mission of educating people to be disciplin in traffic
and using public services which is actually the foundation of a nation to reach
the advancement in all aspects of life.
At the beginning the idea of integrated transport system of Jakarta was critized
of being corrupt project or unrealistic idea and others. Despite the fact hat
so many critics to the project the governor of Jakarta with his clear vision on
the future of traffic of Jakarta he made his resolution that the problem of traffic
can only be overcome if it is started from now physically and educationally. So
many cities in Indonesia have entered the problem like Jakarta, but no leader
that has the quality like Bang Yos, who really care about the future of his country.
It was said that Bang Yos also did a study to Bogota, the capital city of Columbia
at South America concerning the busway, a third world also facing the same problem
of city traffic.
The management of Busway is given to Badan Pengelola Trans Jakarta under the head
of Irzal Djamal. According to Rustam Effendi, the number of car in Jakata is 5,4
million units with growth rate of 11% per year. In 2003 every day 138 new car
/ motor registrations were issued. If it is configured that on the road every
car running on every road need space 50 cms between them, so it will need 6 meters
per unit, which logically everyday need additional extension of road up to 828
meters. In the year of 2004 the addition of car/motor jumped up to 269 unit per
day which necessate 1.614 meters additional road. This is not yet included the
projection of cars that enters Jakarta from Bogor, Tanggerang, Bekasi and others
which reached 600.000 units or 1.3 million passengers on 2003. This group also
experienced growth rate quiet high which reached 700.000 units in 2004. The problem
of traffic in Jakarta disclosed to be too complicated when a research indicated
that the ratio of private owned car to pblic car is 98 : 2 per cent, with the
number of passengers being transported by 98% compared to 2% have the same number.
It is hoped that governor Sutiyoso can be an example of how future leaders of
Indonesia handle this country's problem of development which is far legged behind
by advanced countries. |