No gas-powered buses stall busway project expansion<\/p>\n
Damar Harsanto, The Jakarta Post\/Jakarta<\/p>\n
The new busway routes are unlikely to start operations by the
\nyear-end deadline because the Jakarta administration has yet to
\nstart constructing the compressed natural gas (CNG) stations for
\nthe buses.<\/p>\n
\"I have the impression that the relevant city officials have
\nfailed to accomplish their tasks on time ... I know that there is
\na lot of work to do, which is still incomplete,\" Jakarta Deputy
\nGovernor Fauzi Bowo told The Jakarta Post at City Hall after
\nFriday prayers.<\/p>\n
Fauzi slammed the officials in charge, calling them
\nincompetent and unable to work to schedule.<\/p>\n
\"What a waste. We had even sent them to study at higher
\neducation institutes. Unfortunately, they have failed to
\nperform.\"<\/p>\n
Assistant to the city secretary for development affairs Hari
\nSandjojo said the administration had not yet appointed any
\nprivate companies to help finance the construction of the CNG
\nnetwork.<\/p>\n
\"So far, we are still selecting the companies, who are
\ninterested in investing in the CNG supplies,\" Hari told the Post.<\/p>\n
Four private companies have expressed interest in building gas
\nnetworks connecting the city's existing CNG pipeline to the two
\nplanned CNG stations on Jl. Perintis Kemerdekaan in North Jakarta
\nand at Rawabuaya, West Jakarta. The two CNG stations will cater
\nfor 200 buses on routes linking Pulogadung in East Jakarta to
\nHarmoni in Central Jakarta and from Harmoni to Kalideres in West
\nJakarta.<\/p>\n
Earlier in April this year, the administration, state oil and
\ngas company PT Pertamina and gas distributor PT PGN signed a
\nmemorandum of understanding to supply CNG to the busway, as part
\nof efforts to gradually replace high emission-vehicles using
\ngasoline with CNG-powered ones, which have lower emissions.<\/p>\n
The MOU is also a follow-up of the plan to require all public
\ntransportation vehicles to use CNG in order to reduce air
\npollution in Jakarta --the world's third-most polluted city after
\nMexico City and Bangkok, in line with the implementation of Bylaw
\nNo. 2\/2005 on air pollution control endorsed in February.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Jakarta Transportation Agency head Rustam Effendy
\nSidabutar revealed that a consortium of local companies in charge
\nof procuring the buses, was currently ordering chassis from a
\nprivate company in South Korea.<\/p>\n
\"It has ordered for the first round, 71 chassis out of the
\nplanned 200 for the buses. Those chassis will be reassembled at
\nthe New Armada workshop in Magelang, Central Java,\" Rustam said.<\/p>",
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