Jakarta Encourages Surrounding Regions to Provide Park and Ride Facilities to Boost Public Transport Usage
The Jakarta provincial government will collaborate with surrounding regions to provide parking facilities for private vehicles, or ‘park and ride’ services, to encourage the use of public transport as an effort to reduce the habit of people using private vehicles.
“I hope that people will not drive their private vehicles from home and then switch to Jakarta’s public transport. I hope that park and ride facilities will be available near their homes,” said Jakarta Governor Pramono Anung at City Hall on Wednesday (February 25), as quoted by Antara.
To this end, Pramono said that his administration will work with surrounding regions such as Bekasi, Tangerang, Depok, and Bogor to provide park and ride facilities in these areas.
If this can be realized, Pramono believes that traffic congestion in Jakarta will decrease significantly.
He also hopes that the surrounding regions can create comfortable Transjabodetabek bus stops for the public, so that the number of traffic jams can be reduced by increasing the number of public transport users.
“Please, don’t let everything become Jakarta’s burden. Because now all the transport facilities are fully provided by Jakarta. Including the subsidies, which are fully provided by Jakarta. I just hope that the bus stops can also be prepared well. So that anyone who wants to get off doesn’t get too hot or wet,” said Pramono.
Previously, Pramono had also affirmed that Transjabodetabek will continue to operate even though there are complaints about the lack of bus stops in some surrounding regions.
According to Pramono, the increasing public interest in Transjabodetabek is a positive signal for the development of public transport across regions.
However, this condition must be balanced with the readiness of facilities and infrastructure, especially in surrounding regions such as Depok.
Connectivity of 92 percent, regular users of 23 percent
On that occasion, Pramono said that the connectivity of public transport in Jakarta has reached 92 percent. However, the number of regular public transport users in Jakarta is still around 23.6 percent.
According to him, this is because there are still residents who choose to use private vehicles to the nearest bus stop or station and then park their vehicles at the ‘park and ride’.
Pramono admitted that he wants people to eventually have the habit of using public transport from their respective homes.
He also hopes that the surrounding regions can also help build transportation facilities such as comfortable bus stops. Thus, it is hoped that more people will switch to using public transport.
Even though not many people use public transport yet, Pramono believes that the habit of people using public transport is becoming more orderly.
“Hopefully, the affordable transport options, good facilities, and punctuality are also important. That will make people switch to using public transport,” he said.
He said that the habit of people using private vehicles is still the main reason why policies related to public transport have not been fully successful.
“The main problem is that people are still used to using private transport, so the integration that has been carried out, including the integration of transport, vision, policies, tariffs, operations, so that people use public transport, has not been fully successful because it must change habits,” said Pramono.
Despite this, Pramono said he continues to strive to change this habit by creating various policies. One of them is to provide free public transport for 15 groups of people.
In addition, Pramono also issued a Governor’s Instruction (Ingub) number 6 of 2025, which requires all State Civil Servants (ASN) and employees in the Jakarta Provincial Government to use public transport every Wednesday.
Pramono also created Transjabodetabek so that residents of the surrounding regions who work in Jakarta can use public transport.
“And it has been proven that in the one year of my administration, there has been a significant increase in the number of people using public transport,” he said.
(antara/kid)