November 7, 2007

the traffic in jakarta is stooopidly insane

somebody with a motorcycle just shouted repeteadly announcing something that i could only catch 'warga pondok indah..', but the voice sounded fierce. it's 11pm now and i bet it has something to do with the construction of the new busway lanes on the main road of pondok indah - which means that all the 25-30 year old palm trees that stretch for around 5km (or more, somebody do the math here) must be cut down. some of the residents do protest but it seems that the pemda jakarta (that is, jakarta local govt) care none.

but then you go, so what do you expect, build new lanes in tanah kusir? or jalan fatmawati? de facto, pondok indah is less trafficky compared to the other two streets. but do you really think that building new busway lanes in pondok indah would solve the problem?

na-ah.

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