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        "msgid": "fees-raised-to-keep-cars-off-the-street-1447893297",
        "date": "2005-01-15 00:00:00",
        "title": "Fees raised to keep cars off the street",
        "author": null,
        "source": "JP",
        "tags": null,
        "topic": null,
        "summary": "Fees raised to keep cars off the street The Jakarta Post, Jakarta The city administration plan to triple the price of on-street parking is aimed at encouraging motorists to keep their vehicles at home in order to ease traffic congestion in the city, an official says.",
        "content": "<p>Fees raised to keep cars off the street<\/p>\n<p>The Jakarta Post, Jakarta<\/p>\n<p>The city administration plan to triple the price of on-street<br>\nparking  is aimed at encouraging motorists to keep their vehicles<br>\nat home in order to ease traffic congestion in the city, an<br>\nofficial says.<\/p>\n<p>\"We hope there will be less cars on the streets if we impose<br>\nhigh parking prices, and people will use more public<br>\ntransportation,\" said deputy head of city parking operator BP<br>\nParkir Bambang Rahmanto after a meeting with the City Council's<br>\nCommission C for financial affairs.<\/p>\n<p>Executives of BP Parkir were summoned by the commission on<br>\nFriday to shed light on the planned parking hikes.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, the price of on-street parking is Rp 1,000 (US$0.1)<br>\nper hour. The new price will be Rp 3,000 for the first hour and<br>\nRp 2,000 for each following hour.<\/p>\n<p>Governor Sutiyoso also agreed to the plan on Friday, saying<br>\nthat the current price was way too low compared to other world<br>\ncities. He claimed that New York had prices of US$10 per hour<br>\n(about Rp 90,000) for such parking.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy chairman of Commission C Pria Ramadhani said<br>\ncouncillors had not made a decision on BP Parking's requests,<br>\nsaying that more meetings were needed to discuss various issues,<br>\nincluding efficiency in operation of the company.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, there are around 4.5 million vehicles in the city,<br>\nmostly private cars. The administration blames the large number<br>\nof private cars for the traffic congestion.<\/p>\n<p>Bambang said the planned hike of on-street parking was part of<br>\nan overall traffic master plan, which includes the three-in-one<br>\ntraffic policy imposed along the busway corridor from Blok M in<br>\nSouth Jakarta to Kota.<\/p>\n<p>\"If we earn more revenue from the price increase, it will be<br>\ngood,\" he added.<\/p>\n<p>According to Pria, city revenue from on-street parking should<br>\nreach Rp 19 billion this year.<\/p>\n<p>If the proposal is approved, the city may earn Rp 29 billion<br>\nfrom on-street parking. Meanwhile, the city budget has allocated<br>\nRp 17 billion for BP Parkir.<\/p>",
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