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City proposes parking fee hikes
In a bid to accommodate more traffic, the Jakarta administration is proposing to increase on-street parking fares in its review of the retribution bylaw
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n a bid to accommodate more traffic, the Jakarta administration is proposing to increase on-street parking fares in its review of the retribution bylaw.
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Governor Fauzi Bowo said the proposed fee hike should be seen as an effort to prioritize facilitating smooth traffic.
“If necessary, the city should have no on-street parking at all so roads [occupied by parking lots] could be used for traffic,” he said Thursday.
Increasing parking fares has always been an unpopular decision that has met with resistance from the public, who rightfully claim they had no reliable public transportation to turn to.
The bylaw draft said that insurance schemes would have to be implemented for parking in buildings, open-air spaces and dedicated parking areas.
“Parking on public streets would be expensive and not protected by insurance, so people would be encouraged to park their vehicles off the streets,” said Selamat Nurdin, head of the City Council’s Commission B overseeing transportation.
He said the fee hike would also encourage the private sector to build parking buildings.
Azas Tigor Nainggolan of the Jakarta Transportation Council (DTKJ) said his organization proposed zoning-based parking, in which fees in the city would be differentiated in central, medium and peripheral zones based on how busy the streets were. The DTKJ has proposed a 30 percent hike in taxes for off-street parking, which was managed by the private sector.
The police said they had issued ownership documents (BPKB) for 11.3 million vehicles for Jakarta residents as of last month while the amount of road in the city increased 0.01 percent in the same period.
The Jakarta Public Works Agency said the capital city had 7,650 kilometers of roads covering a total area of 40.1 square kilometers, 0.26 percent of Jakarta’s total area.
