Your comments on the need for building bicycles lanes in Jakarta, which will be integrated into the city transportation system.
The answer is, yes absolutely! However, the government must intervene and create a special breakthrough by providing proper bicycle lanes and sidewalks. This infrastructure is relatively cheap, very easy to build, and the maintenance is very also very easy.
They should be comfortable, wide, safe, clean and strictly free from motorists or parking vehicles. Pedestrians and bicyclists deserve top priority on the road compared to motorists.
Let’s take the Netherlands as a perfect example.
It’s a good idea to assign a team to perform a comparative study with the Netherlands, where sidewalks are very comfortable and bicycles are very widely used. Also important is the culture of the Dutch, who highly respect pedestrians and bicyclists. If such an advanced, highly educated and wealthy society can do that, why can’t Indonesians?
Another example is Surabaya before the 1960s.
At that time, electric trams, sidewalks and bicycle lanes were available all across the city. Now more than 50 years later, sadly, they are only part of the memory of the beautiful and romantic Surabaya of the past.
Without bicycle lanes and sidewalks, bicyclists and pedestrians will be easy prey for motorists in an unfair competition to win the road, exactly as is happening now. In this situation, myself and other people will return to our cars and make the roads even more crowded and jammed.
Please keep in mind that bikers and pedestrians deserve good treatment with proper facilities because they have sacrificed the comfort of driving their cars. These special tracks should be strictly clean from motorcycles let alone parked cars.
Robby Kaware
Jakarta
Bicycle lanes will never work in Jakarta. They will be used by motorbikes. Until Indonesians are more disciplined, maybe just maybe it will work.
John Olson
Jakarta
I think it’s a good idea. But until driver discipline changes here, there’s no use. Currently the busway lanes are full of motorcycles, cars, buses and trucks.
Bicycle lanes would be just as dangerous for cyclists as currently, as other road users would see the empty lane and then pass through it.
D.T.
Bogor, West Java
It’s a great thought to have bicycle lanes, but is Jakarta citizens can’t even respect the busway lanes, why should they ever respect a bicycle lane??
It will be full of motorbikes instantly. Those motorbike riders have no respect for law and order at all.
I’ve spent much time in Taipei, where they have a huge amount of motorbike riders too.
But the city of Taipei has arranged special lanes for the motorbikes, it works fine and traffic flows nicely. But that’s all about respecting law and order, last but not least, respect for each other.
Per Aldrin
Jakarta
The bike lane idea is excellent. The problem is whether the authorities have both the political will and the discipline to consistently enforce the regulations to keep vehicles and, especially, motorbikes out of the bike lanes.
Jerry Cole
Jakarta
No doubt. Please build bicycle lanes, but in a “serious way”, not just “false” lane as in Yogyakarta.
Bicycle lanes should be separate lanes on both sides of the road, near the pavement.
However, I always doubt the capability of the local government to build such transportation infrastructure, as it proved to the public, with the “glorious” monorail project still unfinished.
Stefanus Angga
Yogyakarta
It is a very good step toward saving the world from the taint that humans and technology have given to the earth.
Who needs cars to travel on a daily basis just to go do the shopping? Cars should be banned around the globe in capital cities and replaced with bicycles.
The world has been so damaged by pollution. You can’t undo what is done. Our globe will soon burn out and we can only blame humanity for such destruction.
Why not going back to the old days, when people used to walk and bike to work. Now world has become lazy and the result you can smell in the air. Humans have created this. The day will come when this planet will vanish forever.
BB Leo
Melbourne
We need bicycle lanes to reduce accidents.
Riyadi
Makassar
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