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Fauzi gives agency September deadline to finish busway

Governor Fauzi Bowo demanded Friday the Jakarta Transportation Agency to finish the ongoing construction of busway lanes and shelters by September

Tifa Asrianti (The Jakarta Post)
Jakarta
Sat, April 5, 2008

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Fauzi gives agency September deadline to finish busway

Governor Fauzi Bowo demanded Friday the Jakarta Transportation Agency to finish the ongoing construction of busway lanes and shelters by September.

He threatened to replace agency head Nurachman if the deadline was not met.

"If the new busway lanes are still not functioning by September, we'll replace Nurachman," Fauzi said.

The construction of Corridor 8 (Lebak Bulus to Harmoni), Corridor 9 (Pinang Ranti-Pluit) and Corridor 10 (Cililitan-Tanjung Priok) has been delayed several times.

The corridors were scheduled to be finished in September 2007, or before former governor Sutiyoso ended his term. However, work was hampered by residents demonstrating against the project.

A new deadline of this April was set, however construction of the busway shelters continues at a snail's pace.

Nurachman promised the agency would have the new corridors ready for operation by August or September.

"The construction of Corridor 8 is 40 percent finished, Corridor 9 is 60 percent and Corridor 10 is 58 percent. We'll finish them in June," he said.

Fauzi said the administration would hold a tender to procure buses for the corridors after construction was completed.

"Once we've finished the tender and picked the consortium for the new corridors in June, we can get buses by the end of this year. While waiting for the new buses, we'll use buses from existing corridors on the new corridors," he said.

Nurachman said the procurement of 87 new buses for corridors 4 to 7 would be completed by July. Among these 87 are 13 articulated buses that will join the 10 articulated buses parked at Kampung Rambutan terminal awaiting deployment.

He said his agency was considering two options for the 13 new articulated buses; they could be used exclusively on Corridor 5 or distributed among corridors 1 to 7.

He added the remaining 74 new buses could be used on corridors 8 to 10, while waiting for the completion of the procurement process for the new lanes.

"I'm sure they (the 74 buses) will be able to serve the new corridors, with each corridor having more than a five minute headway," he said.

Nurachman said the 10 articulated buses at Kampung Rambutan would be put into service once the discussion on rate per kilometer was finished in May.

Fauzi also demanded officials provide more compressed natural gas (CNG) stations for TransJakarta buses, to guarantee the operation of those buses that run on CNG.

The majority of the TransJakarta fleet uses CNG. Only buses on Corridor 1 use gasoline.

Fauzi said the CNG buses had to make frequent and time-consuming trips from their corridors to the nearest CNG station. TransJakarta buses depend on three CNG stations, all of which are located on the outskirts of the city.

"I received a report that on average, the buses use three hours for every 17 operational hours just to fill their tanks. The inefficiency is around 20 percent, it's not good. I've asked officials to solve this problem before the launching of the new lanes."

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