TRANSJAKARTA FEEDER- BUS ROUTE SET FOR BEKASI

The jakarta transportation agency will on Wednesday launch a new feeder

-bus route to support the transjakarta busway beetwen Bekasi and the pulo gadung
Terminal in East jakarta.

Jakarta transportation agency chief udar pristono said that the route will start
at the pulo gadung bus terminal and pass through Jl. Raya bekasi, the jakarta outer Ring
Road, the jakarta-cikampek toll road and Jl. Cut Mutia before ending at the bekasi
terminal.

The route will use bus stops in front of the social ministry office and the Bekasi
trade center, whice are both on Jl. Muladi joyomartono, and in front of the Bank Mandiri
office and the hiba utama bus depot on Jl. Raya Bekasi, udar said during a press
conference in jakarta on Tuesday
Each passenger will have to pay a fare of Rp 9,500 (US$1,05), comprising Rp 6,000 for
the feeder bus and Rp 3,500 for the transjakarta bus.
The bus is a high-deck-type with a capacity of 85 passengers, like a transjakarta bus.
But unlike its transjakarta counterpart, the feeder bus will be powered by diesel fuel, not
compressed natural gas (CNG) “fifteen buses will serve the route, with a total capacity 0f
17,340 passengers per day,” udar said.
He said that he hoped the feeder buses would see commuters from bekasi who usually
used cars or motorcycles to get to jakarta be converted into using publik transportation.
“it cannot absorb the passengers as targeted if commuters still use cars and motorcycles
instead of taking public transportation,”he said.
Udar gave the example of the feeder-bus route that stops in front of city hall, which only
has seen around 100 passengers a day utilize the service.
“we have provide the facility but people do not want to use it,” he said.
The agency also demanded that the bekasi administration provide adequate facilities for
passengers, such as parking lots and restaurants, to support the region’s growing bus
system.
Based on research from the greater jakarta urban transportation policy integration
project (JUTPI), the number of people commuting from bekasi to jakarta grew more
than 60 percent in eight years.
There were 423,000 people commuting daily from bekasi to jakarta in 2010, compared
to 262,000 in 2002.
From the 243,000 bekasi-jakarta commuters, 51.1 percent used motorcycles and 29.1
percent drove their cars.
Just 16.3 percent of commuters used bus service and 3.1 percent, or 13,113
passengers,traveled by train each day.
Anisa titisari, 23, a bekasi resident who frequently goes to jakarta to meet with
friends,said that she was pleased with administration’s plan.