Pasar Minggu layout to undergo changes

JAKARTA: The South Jakarta municipal administration plans to make changes to the spatial layout of Pasar Minggu district, in a bid to ease chronic traffic congestion and to clear the area from sidewalk vendors.

"Without a comprehensive plan, it would be impossible to ease the traffic and to make the sidewalk vendors occupy the kiosks that have been provided for them," Mayor Dadang Kafrawi said on Monday.

The municipality's development body will first hold a feasibility study on the construction of a shop-bridge passing over Jl. Raya Pasar Minggu and plans to connect the railway station with the bus terminal. -- Antara