If growth of residential areas was not accompanied with availability of
mass transportation facilities it will be cause traffic congestion not only in
Jakarta, but also in Bogor, Depok, Tangerang and Bekasi (Greater Jakarta area).
Developers had been focusing on housing development in Greater Jakarta area,
but they did not pay attention to mass transportation facilities. A synergy
between regional government and developers is necessary to prevent traffic
congestion.
Suroyo Alimoeso, Director General of Land Transportation gave an
illustration of demand of travel by all land transportation modes in Greater
Jakarta area. Based on data of Greater Jakarta Public Transportation
Implementation Strategy (Japtrapis), in 2010 demand for travel by land
transportation in Greater Jakarta reached 53 million travels per day. While,
daily travel of provincial agencies of some buffer regions to DKI Jakarta
reached 7.7 million travels per day.
Land-based transportation in Greater Jakarta had been facing problem
since 1980. For example, land-based public transportation served by private and
state-owned enterprises not yet met expectation. Private enterprises were
stronger in facing competition because approximately 80% of their
transportation facilities are for commercial purpose, and the remaining are
low-cost transportation. Transportation served by state-owned enterprises, such
as Perusahaan Pengangkut Djakarta (PPD), is less competitive that the one owned
by private enterprises as it is mostly oriented toward low-cost transportation.
In the master plan for land-based public transportation in Greater
Jakarta applied until 2020, the Directorate General of Land Transportation
proposed 30 busway routes and 15 feeder
transportation routes. With demand that could reach 738 units of articulated
buses with projection of passengers transportation at 2.7 million units per
day. While, construction of supporting infrastructures for land-based
transportation consist of construction of busway corridors, park and ride
facility, integration of inter-mode transportation, and passersby and bicycles.
But, he did not mentioned about the budget requirement of the land-based
transportation developers.
There was a different opinion from L. Danny Siahaan, Acting Head of
Development and Research at the Ministry of Transportation, stating that
development of land and railway-based public transportation in Greater Jakarta
must pay attention to public demand. The masterplan must be adjusted to supply
and demand sides. Therefore, public transportation must be accompanied with
construction of public facilities, such as offices, educational centers, and
shopping centers to attract people to reside in Suburban areas.
According to him, development of public facilities in some buffer areas
will prevent traffic congestion in the cities. Therefore, development of mass
transportation and public facilities should be done with the involvement of the
government and residential area developers to solve traffic problem.
The government has made a masterplan for land-based transportation in
Greater Jakarta to be operated from 2014 to 2020 for busway on 17 routes to be
operated by the central government, then feeded buses on 10 routes to be
operated by the central government. While, regarding demand for articulated
buses, 738 units are required and demand for 169 units of feeder buses are to
be provided by the central government.
Besides the government, private investors were encouraged to engage in
land-based mass transportation project in Greater Jakarta Area with a total
fund requirement of Rp.300 trillion up to 2020. From this amount, for demand
for railway project of 585 km length the government needed fund of Rp.108
trillion and state-owned and private enterprises Rp. 191 trillion. Procurement
of railway-based transportation project covers a quite large interest. This
condition was also open for regional governments in Greater Jakarta area who
will invite foreign investors to develop this project. (E)
Business News - March 13,2013
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