Traffic: Order, please!

From Neraca

Can we hope for the city authority to bring order to the chaotic traffic on the road in front of the campus of Christian University of Indonesia (UKI) in Cawang?

On June 27 I witnessed a tragic accident there. In the midst of the rush hours a PPD 900 A city bus serving the Depok-Pasar Baru route ran over the thighs of a man who unfortunately fell while jostling to get onto the bus.

Hundreds of people who saw it were obviously shocked and aghast, but none of them hurried to help the bleeding man. Nearby was a police guard post, and several police were close by directing heavy traffic. But they did not act to help and carry him to the UKI university hospital, only scores of meters away in the campus compound.

On my part, I was already late for work and, besides, I couldn't stand to watch the blood drenching the injured man's lower part.

Who was to blame? Not the bus for it was only moving slowly.

The fact is that the location in front of the UKI university has become a hub of public transportation traffic, with all sorts of people coming from and going to many places constantly forming crowds there. A picture of the daily scene there had once appeared in the papers.

I would say it's now time for the authorities to bring order to the chaos.

ANOM SUSANTININGTTIAS

East Jakarta