Busway : Bus Rapid Transport in Jakarta

Jakarta has the most modes of transportation planned in Indonesia. The government have been planing to implement river transport like in Venesia, bus services with their own lane in the street called Busway, monorail, and subway. But at the present time, only one mode has worked: The Bus Rapid Transit system or Busway. River transport is fail because the river is fully by trash and shallow. Monorail is delayed because lack of budget. Busway has attracted strong opposition from transportation experts and observers since it was first introduced by the Jakarta administration in early 2002. Today, busway project still carry on. Sometimes this project make the traffic more crowded and jammed in business hours. The busway take one line of the road. The experts argued that the busway would not be able to resolve chronic traffic congestion in the capital and poor-quality public transportation services. The administration proposed only Rp 60 billion (US$7 million) from its 2002 budget to buy some 60 buses to be used on the 12.9-kilometer corridor from Blok M, South Jakarta, to Kota, West Jakarta. A promise to operate the busway in October 2002 was broken because the administration had yet to prepare facilities, from bus shelters and pedestrian bridges to lane dividers. But the best thing from bus wat are it is cheap. For one ride you only pay IDR 3.500. You must pay it in the locket before take the busway. No like other bus transportation, in busway you can find woman driver the bus. Feeder bus services, to support the busway, will not have air-conditioned buses as promised earlier, which could discourage private car owners from using the buses.