The All City Big Loss, Need Immediate Public Transport

The more often we hear complaints about the congestion that often widespread and major cities such as Makassar, Bandung, Medan, Surabaya, Manado, Palembang, Yogyakarta, Semarang, Bogor, and others.
I have no statistics to confirm the complaints above. (This figure is probably already available on the Ministry of Transportation or the specific research centers.) But simple reasoning and experience sufficient Jakarta gave lessons.

Economic growth and the new middle class by itself increase the number of private cars and motorcycles in the cities. Plus there is no public transport system of interest, the reliance on private vehicles even bigger.
The bureaucrats and technocrats who thought naive always say, the number of private vehicles much faster than the accretion broad and roads. Therefore, the Public Works Department should build more roads. And faster.
This is the true way of thinking fosters jammed. The race between expanding with increasing road car will just continually increasing number of cars. The car also requires parking lots, gas stations, garages, and others have certainly spent the urban land for objects that are a source of heat and pollution.
In Jakarta, the health costs related to air pollution has reached Rp38 trillion per year, according to a study.
Back in Jalan Thamrin, Jakarta, there are two green line in the middle. Now no. There used to be two gas stations on the bridge clover. Today was really the difference when they have been removed and replaced the park. Both changes can hone our sensitivity about the urban space and its not healthy.
Mobility is one of the most important things in the life of the city. These basic needs population, determine the economic efficiency and sosialitasnya. Horizontal mobility in the physical space of the city can be said to be an important support for vertical mobility in the social space of the city.
And in fact the whole world already knew, at least since the late 1960's, that the answer to mobility is the public transit system. Not a reliance on private vehicles (which ever haunt Europe until the 1970's, and still do in some U.S. cities such as Los Angeles - Los Angeles but now there is more public transport than in big cities in Indonesia).
The car was initially increase personal freedom. But we know now that freedom is false, because if all the Indonesian middle class indulgence in it, the result is lack of freedom. Author Ayu Utami, because it says, "Even though I have a car, I want FREEDOM to go everywhere with a good public transport."
Why is the government at all levels is always late to build public transport systems, and faster to build toll roads?
Simple: build a public transport system is more difficult, requiring political will and higher skills, more concerned about the management and systemic thinking. Meanwhile, make the road easier, too easily corrupted, in my estimation.
Residents of cities in Indonesia have come together to increase the demand for public transport systems immediately. Therefore, it will determine the convenience and competitiveness of our cities. And the government must immediately comply.



Source: http://id.berita.yahoo.com/blogs/newsroom-blog/