Get ready for more traffic jam! Yesterday I passed S. Parman street in front of Slipi Jaya Plaza just found that workers were preparing for busway lane construction. It must be a heavy traffic since this main road is very crowded during day. It must be Busway Line 9: Pinang Ranti – Pluit. Can you imagine that is a main path from North to the South East? Although it will cover all the city with busway, but I just can’t imagine how my way is to city if I don’t take toll-road starting from tomorrow.

Although it is expected to operate on September 2008, new buses for those corridors have not been ready yet. So they are considering to open one or two corridors or delay all of them until end of the year.

So the govenment is building new lines:
Line 8 Lebak Bulus Terminal – Harmoni Central Busway Length: 18 km
Lebak Bulus-Ciputat Raya-TB Simatupang-Pasar Jumat-Metro Pondok Indah-Iskandar Muda-Teuku Nyak Arif-Letjen Supomo-Jl Panjang-Daan Mogot-S Parman-Tomang Raya-Kyai Caringin-Balik Papan-Suryopranoto-Harmoni.

Line 9 Pinang Ranti Terminal – Pluit Length : 15 km
Terminal Pinang Ranti-Pondok Gede Raya-Raya Bogor-Mayjen Sutoyo-Mt Haryono-Jl Gatot Subroto-S Parman-Prof Latumeten-Jembatan Dua-Jembatan Tiga-Pluit

Line 10 Cililitan -Tanjung Priok Terminal Length: 15 km
Terminal Cililitan-Mayjen Sutoyo-DI Panjaitan-Jendral Ahmad Yani-Yos Sudarso-Enggano-Terminal Tanjung Priok.

See my recommendation  and see the new corridor map:

Lane 8 still becomes public debate since Metro Pondok Indah street will be passed by the bus. Current narrow and crowded street will become more crowded if we don’t want to say it as a jam. I just can recomment you to use Ciputat Raya street as an alternative, then use Kartika Raya street to get into Pondok Indah.

Lane 9, I just can recommend you to take Tol Dalam Kota (inner-city freeway) if you want to go from Pluit-Grogol to Sudirman-Kuningan-Cawang if you don’t want to stuck in the middle of city. Possible jam will be in front of Grogol, Rumah Sakit Harapan Kita, Semanggi, and MT Haryono.

Lane 10, also you should use freeway above jalan bypass.

You can see that all the main access in Jakarta will be covered by Jakarta Busway Network, so either you want to stuck in traffic jam or you have to surrender and become street walker taking the bus. If the latter you choose, that’s what the government wants you to do.

See my recommendation:

Lane 8 still becomes public debate since Metro Pondok Indah street will be passed by the bus. Current narrow and crowded street will become more crowded if we don’t want to say it as a jam. I just can recomment you to use Ciputat Raya street as an alternative, then use Kartika Raya street to get into Pondok Indah.

Lane 9, I just can recommend you to take Tol Dalam Kota (inner-city freeway) if you want to go from Pluit-Grogol to Sudirman-Kuningan-Cawang if you don’t want to stuck in the middle of city. Possible jam will be in front of Grogol, Rumah Sakit Harapan Kita, Semanggi, and MT Haryono.

Lane 10, also you should use freeway above jalan bypass.

You can see that all the main access in Jakarta will be covered by Jakarta Busway Network, so either you want to stuck in traffic jam or you have to surrender and become street walker taking the bus. If the latter you choose, that’s what the government wants you to do.

Just found the new 2007 map (corridor I-IX) from a forum, you can download it from here

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