Old Japanese buses proposed for busway feeder<\/p>\n
Damar Harsanto, The Jakarta Post\/Jakarta<\/p>\n
Jakarta bus operators proposed on Thursday that the city
\nadministration use imported secondhand buses from Japan to help
\nimprove existing busway feeder services.<\/p>\n
"We cannot afford new buses of the same quality as the busway.
\nBut, we can replace the existing buses with better ones," said
\nAip Syarifuddin of Jakarta chapter of Organization of Land
\nTransportation Owners (Organda).<\/p>\n
Organda have prepared around 300 secondhand buses to provide
\nfeeder service for the 12.9 kilometer busway corridor from Blok M
\nin South Jakarta to Kota in West Jakarta.<\/p>\n
"Those buses will connect several points along the corridor,
\nlike the Semanggi cloverleaf, Hotel Indonesia traffic circle, and
\nHarmoni intersections, to other areas across the city," Aip said
\non the sidelines of a seminar titled: In search of plan for
\nbusway feeder services.<\/p>\n
The TransJakarta Busway Management had terminated the
\ncontracts of two busway feeder system operators, namely Kopami
\nJaya and PT Metromini, due to their failure to comply with
\nregulations.<\/p>\n
The management said passengers had complained that bus
\nconductors on the feeder buses refused to accept feeder bus
\ntickets and instead demanded cash.<\/p>\n
With the contract termination, only six operators have been
\nproviding feeder services since Feb. 1. They are PPD, Steady
\nSafe, Kopaja, Bianglala, Pahala Kencana and Mayasari Bhakti.<\/p>\n
Data from the management shows the 383 non air-conditioned
\nfeeder buses owned by the eight operators accommodate only a few
\nhundred passengers a day, far from the average number of busway
\npassengers of about 62,000 per day.<\/p>\n
Governor Sutiyoso even asserted that the feeder buses should
\nbe as comfortable as the busway. "At least, the buses should be
\nair-conditioned".<\/p>\n
Aside from the first busway corridor, the administration also
\nplans new busway corridors from Pulo Gebang in East Jakarta, to
\nKalideres in West Jakarta, via the National Monument Park
\n(Monas).<\/p>\n
The Pulo Gebang-Monas corridor is slated to be operational
\nnext June, while the Monas-Kalideres route in October 2005.<\/p>",
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