Public Transportartion
Public transportation at Indonesia that I had experienced is busway, taxi, ojek, other public bus, metro mini, bajaj, and others. My group has experienced each of the public transportation and we all really excited to experience that. After we experienced all of them, me personally decided to divide it into subcategories of the most excited, the cheapest, the most expensive, the fastest, the most flexible, and the most comfortable.
For the most excited, we pick bajaj. Because in bajaj we really feel that we can get free “massage” from the vibration itself and natural air conditioner. This kind of transportation has existed before I was born, so it has different atmosphere if we use that. We can feel its “oldness”, smell, and flexibility on the road. Oh yeah, I almost forgot, the price to use this transportation is negotiatable
Now, move to other transportation that got 2 awards which are the cheapest and the fastest, which is busway. Yeah, this transportation price is fixed and divided to 2 price period, for 6.00 – 9.00 am the price is 2.500 rupiah and 9.00 – 22.00 the price is 3.500 rupiah. For the fastest part, it happens because busway has its own route that cannot be disturbed by other vehicles. But, at Indonesia you can find lots of people that break the rule “to not to use the busway route”, never the less, it’s still the fastest public transportation.
We got another transportation that got 2 awards, which are the most expensive and the most comfortable, which is taxi. I think it’s a fair price, you pay high, and you got something good. So this kind of public transportation is transportation that not everyone can pay its price. Because of Indonesia is still a developing country, which means only a small percent of people that can use this transportation.
The last award is the most flexible, which is ojek. At Indonesia, you can find ojek in every corner of the street, they offer they motorcycle and services and the price is negotiatable. But mostly ojek in Indonesia always put the highest price to use the service and it is up to us to negotiate it to get a lower price.
On top of that, Indonesia still facing the traffic problem and the most popular one is traffic jam. Our group has decided to cover that problem and how to cope that is with improved busway. It is because busway is cheap and fast because it has its own route. Most of people in Indonesia are always prefer a transportation which is cheap and fast. The real problem itself is coming from people control and maintenance the bus itself. In this case it’s the government itself. The government should have improved the bus stop, the amount of the buses, and more security. Because at the bus stop itself have no air conditioner, people have to wait approximately for 1,5 hours for the bust to coming, and there are lots of theft in the bus. So the government must fix and improve the busway. Because it is the preferable choice for lots of people to use and there will be mass of people every day that use busway.
I think that’s all I can give to you :D