Management aborts feeder contracts<\/p>\n
Damar Harsanto, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta<\/p>\n
TransJakarta Busway Management has terminated the contracts of
\ntwo busway feeder system operators due to their failure to comply
\nwith the required services for the 12.9-kilometer busway corridor
\nfrom Blok M in South Jakarta to Kota in West Jakarta.<\/p>\n
The termination of the contracts takes effect on Monday.<\/p>\n
\"The two operators, Kopami Jaya and PT Metromini, failed to
\nimprove their services, even though we already reprimanded them.
\nWe have received lots of complaints from the feeder bus
\npassengers on their poor service,\" busway management spokesman
\nAdjar Aedi told The Jakarta Post on Sunday by phone.<\/p>\n
He said passengers had complained that crews on the feeder
\nbuses routinely refused to accept feeder bus tickets, instead
\ndemanding cash.<\/p>\n
\"We hope the annulment of the contracts will serve as a
\nwarning to other operators to improve their services,\" he said.<\/p>\n
Kopami and PT Metromini served five routes: Cidelug-Blok M
\n(with the Metromini S 69), Ragunan-Blok M (Metromini S 77),
\nPondok Labu-Blok M (Metromini S 610), Lebak Bulus-Blok M
\n(Metromini S 72) and Senen-Muara Angke (Kopami Jaya P.02).<\/p>\n
The other feeder system operators are state-owned bus operator
\nPPD, Steady Safe, Kopaja, Bianglala, Pahala Kencana and Mayasari
\nBhakti.<\/p>\n
\"We are still discussing with the City Transportation Agency
\nthe possibility of getting new feeder service operators to
\nreplace the two whose contracts we terminated,\" Adjar said.<\/p>\n
Representatives of PT Metromini and Kopami Jaya could not be
\nreached for comment.<\/p>\n
Busway management head Irzal Z Djamal has acknowledged the
\nfailure of the feeder system to provide adequate service to the
\npublic.<\/p>\n
He said the eight feeder system operators have failed to
\nprovide an adequate number of buses as specified in the agreement
\nthey signed.<\/p>\n
Data from the management shows the 383 feeder buses owned by
\nthe eight operators accommodate only a few hundred passengers a
\nday, far from the average number of busway passengers of about
\n62,000 per day.<\/p>\n
Irzal said the number of passengers using the feeder services
\nhad continued to decline since the operation of the feeder buses
\nbegan on Feb. 1.<\/p>\n
The transportation agency, however, plans to continue with the
\nexpansion of the busway, with the construction of new corridors
\nfrom Pulo Gebang in East Jakarta, to Kalideres in West Jakarta,
\nvia the National Monument Park (Monas).<\/p>\n
The Pulo Gebang-Monas corridor is slated to be operational
\nnext June, while the Monas-Kalideres is expected to open in
\nOctober 2005.<\/p>\n
With at least nine months to go, however, the Post observed on
\nSunday no construction work along the proposed new corridors. The
\nCity Parks Agency, which is responsible for removing trees along
\nthe median strips along Jl. Perintis Kemerdekaan and Jl.
\nSuprapto, has yet to begin the work.<\/p>\n
The City Public Works Agency has also yet to widen the narrow
\nparts of Jl. Perintis Kemerdekaan and clear it of on-street
\nparking and street vendors.<\/p>",
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