Jakarta's Traffic Jam

Jakarta’s Traffic Jam

Traffic Jam is one of big problem for most of Countries include our country, Indonesia, especially Indonesia's capital town, Jakarta.

Since Jakarta is Indonesia's capital town a lot of people around Jakarta like Bekasi, Bogor, Depok and Tanggerang will come to Jakarta everyday to go to their work, school or their campus. But they have a big problem whenever they go to Jakarta, it's the traffic jam. Traffic jam will always be a part of Jakarta and it makes a lot of people stress, wasting their times, tired, etc. This traffic jam also makes the air pollution increases and it will makes Jakarta's citizens get sicks easily because they always inhale a polluted air.

Some of disease that caused of air pollution are :

1. Bronchitis chronic.

2. Bronchopneumonia.

3. Asthma bronchiale.

4. Lung Cancer.

Jakarta is included in "The World's 20 Cities With The Worst Traffic Jams" and Jakarta is on the 14th. While the first is Tokyo, Japan. Even though they already had monorail but they still have traffic jam's problem.

Causes

There are a lot of reasons that caused this traffic jam. Some of the reasons are :

1. Because Jakarta has a lot of citizens, even a lot of people from the outside of Jakarta are comes to Jakarta each day and it makes the traffic jam getting worse because there are so much people there. Maybe more than Jakarta's citizens itselves.

2. There are too many vehicles. Year by year, vehicles in Jakarta are increase rapidly while the areas are not big enough to handle those vehicles. And it makes the traffic jam uncontrolled especially in busy times like when people go to work in the morning and when they go home in the afternoon until evening.

3. Indiscipline Drivers, I think most of drivers in Jakarta are indiscipline, they don't care about the traffic light, the rules of driving and else. All they think about are how to get to their destination without being stuck by the traffic jam so they against the rules and drive however they want like there are no rules. Meanwhile, their action are just make the traffic jam getting worse and worse.

4. Too Long Traffic Light Length, Sometimes a traffic light have a too long length, I've ever seen a traffic light with almost 1000 seconds length and it was on busy time. The traffic light is functioning to organize the vehicle but with a too long length, I think it's not effective.

5. Busway, I don't think that Busway can reduce the traffic jam, because Busway's line is take almost a half of a road. Busway were made to reduce the traffic jam and decrease the vehicle users. But it's not really success, because most of “rich” people feels it’s embarrassing to take a public transportation so they choose to use their own vehicles. and Buswa’s line makes the road becomes smaller and the capacity of vehicles comes down, the government should take care of it if they want Busway becomes effective.

Solution

I personally think that traffic jam in Jakarta is really difficult to solved. It's even getting worse day by day. But I think the government should take care of it and find the right solution to reduce this traffic jam. I have some solution for it, and here they are :

1. Busway, Busway is one of government's plan to reduce the traffic jam but like I’ve wrote before, it’s not really effective because the government didn't do it seriously. If the government really want to reduce it and makes Busway as the main transportation to control the vehicle users, I think they should make a new rules for it. Maybe makes some punishments for those people who don't want to use Busway.

2. Enlarge the road, I think government should enlarge the road especially in the central of traffic jam which is always used by vehicle users like Semanggi or the other complicated intersection.

3. Makes more highway, highway is really useful to reduce the traffic jam. The government should makes more highway so those people who has their own vehicle especially car can take the highway and for public transportation and the other vehicle like motorcycle can take the public road.

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