City project to face hitches

City project to face hitches

JAKARTA (JP): The municipality's planned pilot project to do
away with fences between various high-rise buildings situated
within one city block will face many hitches, a leading city
planning expert said.

Uras Siahaan said, "This is because there will be many changes
made in the city's planning methods," reported Antara yesterday.

The head of City Supervision and Development of the
Municipality, Soeharto, announced on Monday that the main
objective of the project, known as the urban design guideline
project, was to redesign the area and make it more pedestrian
oriented.

He said the project will first be tried on the city block that
houses Wisma Antra, the Bangkok Bank building and the new Migas
building which is still under construction.

He said eventually the three buildings will not be separated
by fences. "This will make it easier for pedestrians in the area
to move around."(bas)