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Rail company to reopen two lines
State-owned railway company PT Kereta Api (PT KA) announced Sunday it would resume the operation of two old railway lines in the city in anticipation of higher demand
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tate-owned railway company PT Kereta Api (PT KA) announced Sunday it would resume the operation of two old railway lines in the city in anticipation of higher demand.
One of the two lines connects Senen, Central Jakarta, to Tanjung Priok, North Jakarta, and the other links Kota, West Jakarta, to Ancol, North Jakarta.
Spokesman for PT KA's Greater Jakarta branch, Sugeng Priyono, said the two lines had been closed for 15 years.
He did not give details of the exact date of the relaunch of the services.
He said his company was currently constructing fences along the rail lines.
The company will also try to persuade squatters living along the lines to move, Sugeng said.
"We have given them two options - either to voluntarily dismantle their homes or let us do it for them," Sugeng said as quoted by vivanews.com.
Commuter railway routes in Greater Jakarta are operated by the company's subsidiary PT KAI Commuter Jabodetabek (KCJ).
KCJ manages 56 railway stations and 170 kilometers of railway lines, including tracks linking the city's main stations to Serpong, Bogor, Depok, Tangerang and Bekasi in Greater Jakarta.
Approximately 400,000 passengers from Greater Jakarta use trains every day, an increase from 325,000 last year, KCJ reported.
The KCJ targets to attract 1 million passengers per day by 2012 and 3 million passengers per day by 2014.
It also said it would replace all non-air conditioned economy cars with air conditioned ones by 2011 to make the service more appealing.
