Parking lot for shoppers provided<\/p>\n
The Jakarta Post, Jakarta<\/p>\n
City administration is preparing a 2.9-hectare plot of land in
\nthe Waduk Melati area, Central Jakarta, as a temporary parking
\nlot for visitors to Tanah Abang market in order to ease the flow
\nof traffic around the market and surrounding areas.<\/p>\n
It is also to provide 10 shuttle buses to take visitors from
\nthe parking lot to the market, free of charge.<\/p>\n
Governor Sutiyoso stressed that starting Monday, all cars
\nbelonging to shoppers would be prohibited from parking at the
\nmarket and on side streets leading to the market.<\/p>\n
\"I do not want to see cars parked at the market and on the
\nstreet, especially on Jl. KH Mas Mansyur, as they cause serious
\ntraffic problems,\" Sutiyoso said after visiting the parking lot
\non Monday.<\/p>\n
He ordered officials at the City Transportation Agency to tow
\nany cars parked in prohibited areas, if their owners did not heed
\nwarnings.<\/p>\n
The 2.9-hectare land is part of a 5.3-hectare plot in Waduk
\nMelati owned by the Indonesian Bank Restructuring Agency (IBRA)
\nthat has been leased to the administration. The temporary parking
\nlot will be used until Tanah Abang market has been restored,
\nwhile the administration will build a business center on the
\nremaining 2.4-hectare land.<\/p>\n
President Director Prabowo Soenirman of city-owned market
\noperator PD Pasar Jaya said the parking lot would hold about
\n1,500 cars.<\/p>\n
Prabowo said the reconstruction of Tanah Abang market would
\nbegin in early December after the Idul Fitri holiday and is
\nexpected to finish within 14 to 16 months.<\/p>\n
About 2,400 kiosks in the market, deemed the largest textile
\nmarket in Southeast Asia, were destroyed by fire in February.<\/p>",
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