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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/30/a-bus-is-open-to-everyone-regardless-of-class-riding-the-worlds-biggest-network>
"In 2004, Ananda Putra Fajar, or Nanda to his family, was among those trying
out Jakarta’s newly launched first bus fleet. Jakarta had long been infamous
for its traffic congestion and air pollution, and in the search for a solution
it had turned to Colombia’s capital, Bogotá, which had developed a system
called Bus Rapid Transit, or BRT, a kind of high-concept bus network that has a
central spine of frequent, rapid buses with their own infrastructure, which
passengers can reach via feeder buses that connect deep into residential areas.
Bogotá had put the system in place a couple of years before: Jakarta’s version
was called TransJakarta and initially ran through a 12-kilometre dedicated
lane. Now, 19 years later, Nanda has grown to rely on the bus to commute to
work, while TransJakarta has grown to become the world’s longest BRT system,
spanning more than 251 kilometres (156 miles), with up to 1 million passengers
daily, in a city with a population of 11 million.
“I feel very comfortable commuting with TransJakarta,” said Nanda, now 29 and a
recruiter in Jakarta’s main business district. “There’s no need to use a
private vehicle.”
The fare is Rp3,500 (about 18p) a trip, which has not gone up since the launch,
thanks to government subsidies. A feeder system of hundreds of microbuses and
cars helps the BRT reach 88% of Jakarta’s sprawling neighbourhoods and
satellite cities. There are now 240 routes across the city, compared with 22
routes a decade ago. In the same period, TransJakarta’s fleet has quadrupled to
4,642 buses."
Via
What Could Go Right? December 7, 2023:
https://theprogressnetwork.org/homelessness-2023/
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
