Tips to solve traffic jams

Tips to solve traffic jams

From Kompas

As a new resident in Jakarta, I have noticed how passengers in
the city are so submissive in the face of traffic jams that there
seems to be no innovation to solve the problem.

It takes one to three hours to travel from Bekasi to the House
of Representatives building. Based on my first observation, the
sources of congestion are centered in areas around toll gates.

On the roads near toll gates, various types of cars are packed
during the same hours, including box vans, oil tankers, cattle
trucks, buses and other heavy-duty vehicles.

Therefore, travel hours should be arranged so that students
are scheduled for earliest trips, private and government
employees follow later, while large and heavy-duty cars are
reserved for non-working hours or night trips.

Roads leading to freeways should not be too close to toll
gates and the distance between one gate and another should not be
unnecessarily too short either, with the number of gates being
reduced.

Meanwhile, the fairly big income derived from toll road
operation should also be spent on the construction of more
flyovers and underpasses to ease traffic congestion. In this way,
toll roads will truly function as freeways instead of being
jammed themselves.

H.M. KAFRAWI R.
Jakarta