Being an extremely low lying city with average elevation no more than 8m above sea level, Jakarta is rapidly sinking. Jakarta has sunk by 4 m in the last 30 years and it is estimated that 95% of north Jakarta will be underwater by 2050. North Jakarta is under greater threat as it has sunk by 2.5m in the last 10 years alone. That’s twice the
The two projects are under way at a cost of $2.6bn. “Today we will begin a new civilisation by operating the first phase of mass rapid transit in Jakarta,” Widodo told several thousand guests
The calculation involves two traffic routes, namely routes from Cilandak, South Jakarta to the National Monument (Monas), Central Jakarta, and from Pasar Minggu area to Manggarai. Heru said that in 1985, the calculation result showed that it only takes 38 minutes to go from Cilandak to Monas with an average speed of 24.7 Km/h.
In 2004, Jakarta was the first city in Asia to build a Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system. Transjakarta is now the world´s longest BRT and key to Jakarta´s efforts to curb emissions, clean the air, and lower traffic congestion, which is one of the most severe of all cities in the world. . 470 435 204 454 230 392 70 24