Public Transportation in Jakarta

In big cities like Jakarta, time is an expensive thing. Many employees in Jakarta struggle every day from their home to their office. They stuck in a jungle of traffic in the morning and in the evening. Everyone use many kind of transportation during their travel to the office. Some people use car or motorcycles. Another people use public transportation.

Mostly, people who are work in Jakarta come from areas surrounding Jakarta like Bekasi, Tangerang, Bogor, Depok etc. They wake up early morning to take on bus or train which will bring him to Sudirman, Gatot Subroto or Kuningan. Highly demand in public transportation unfortunately is not come with excellent services.  Train is almost always going delay every day.  Bus is not comfort transportation for travelling. Even Transjakarta Bus is not friendly for women because of criminal harassment.

Using car or public transportation is a choice. For people who is using car, they prefer do that because of the lack of public transportation in their resident. Using car is more comfortable than any public transportation. But, for people who have easy access to train station or terminal they choose using public transportation going to their work. Using it is sometimes faster than private car. They can continue their sleep at the bus during their travelling from Bogor to Jakarta.

Nowadays, Jakarta government is ready to develop many of public transportation as much as other cities in South East Asia. The planning of Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) Jakarta will be stretch approximately ±110.8 km, consists of Southern corridor to Northern corridor (Lebak Bulus - Kampung Bandan) about ±23.8 km and Eastern corridor to Western corridor about ±87 km.

Today, PT MRT Jakarta still doing first part of Southern corridor to Northern corridor which connecting Lebak Bulus – Bundaran HI. This line consists of 7 elevated stations and 6 underground stations which are targeted to operate by 2018.