On one of my rare visits to Jakarta, I noticed the traffic situation was definitely getting worse, and this makes me believe that the city administration and traffic police do not have the will to solve the problem and will just let motorists muddle their own way home.
The authorities keep coming up with schemes that cost lots of money, which makes everyone suspicious, and never implement simple, cost-effective solutions.
Just see what happens in many intersections. At a Lebak Bulus crossroad near Pondok Indah in South Jakarta for example, traffic moved very slowly. When the traffic lights turned green, only one or two cars could move, as the main street was already blocked by motorists. It makes traffic lights totally ineffective and a waste of electricity.
Now there is a very simple and cost effective way to solve the situation which most of the world has already applied. Just go to the hardware store and buy yellow paint and paint an illegal stopping box across the crossroads with resulting fixed fines for offenders.
You do not need a policeman there. Just install a camera which gets plate numbers of offenders plus date and time and send the fixed fine by post to the offenders. If you impose financial penalties strictly, it should instill discipline.
By applying such a simple solution, I believe it would help to ease problems in crossroads.
Cliff
Bogor
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