The Chronic Traffic Congestion in Jakarta

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The chronic traffic congestion in Jakarta Jakarta, which is known as the capital city of Indonesia, is popularly known as one of the worst congested city in the world. With the unbalanced capacity of the vehicles, it becomes the main factors why Jakarta is facing the chronic traffic congestion. Therefore, most of people still prefer to take their personal vehicles rather than taking the public transportations. It is really a sad reality that Jakarta commuters have to getting used for spending hours on the road every single day. There are many factors why the traffic congestion becomes the major problems in Jakarta. First, the limited capacity of road is not enough to take the amount of vehicles. . According to the recent data, around 9.9 million vehicles take to the capital streets each workday. [1] The overall length of road only 7.650 km and the wide of roads only 40.1 km or approximately 0.26 percent of the area of administration. Ironically, the growth of road length is only 0.01 percent per year compared to the growth of the transportations. Supposedly, the length of streets in Jakarta must have a total length of 12 thousand kilometers. [2] The second factor why congestion happening in Jakarta because the lack number of public transportations in Jakarta. According to recent data, the streets of Jakarta dominated by private vehicle users as much as 98 percent. Then, remaining of 2 percent is used by public vehicles carrying 66 percent of the total population of Jakarta. [3] Other than that, the public transportations still also have a lack convenient service and facilities to the users which make most people prefer using their personal transportations. The third factor is bringing the biggest influence to the cause of traffic congestion in Jakarta. The government still really did not take a role for organizing the city as well. Necessarily, there are

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