TheJakartaPost
Please Update your browser
Your browser is out of date, and may not be compatible with our website. A list of the most popular web browsers can be found below.
Just click on the icons to get to the download page.
Popular Reads
Top Results
No results found. Please check your search term and try again
Can't find what you're looking for?
View all search results
Popular Reads
Top Results
No results found. Please check your search term and try again
Can't find what you're looking for?
View all search resultsJakarta to 'clean up' on-street parking spots, fine violators
With a huge number of vehicles on the road and worsening traffic congestion in Jakarta, the city administration said that it planned to gradually close at least 30 on-street parking locations across the city
Change text size
Gift Premium Articles
to Anyone
Share the best of The Jakarta Post with friends, family, or colleagues. As a subscriber, you can gift 3 to 5 articles each month that anyone can read—no subscription needed!
With a huge number of vehicles on the road and worsening traffic congestion in Jakarta, the city administration said that it planned to gradually close at least 30 on-street parking locations across the city.
'There are too many on-street parking locations in Jakarta. We have to take action, but step by step, as we can't immediately shut them all down at once,' Deputy Jakarta Governor Basuki 'Ahok' Tjahaja Purnama said at his office on Friday, as quoted by kompas.com.
'We need to regulate this because on-street parking takes up a significant area of the road, thus causing traffic jams."
Ahok said that the cleanup would start in five locations, namely near the Kalibata City apartments in South Jakarta, Jakarta Kota train station in West Jakarta, the Tanah Abang market area in Central Jakarta, Jatinegara in East Jakarta and Marunda in North Jakarta.
To contain the number of on-street parkers, he said the city administration would immediately tow away cars parked on the road, and charge the owners Rp 500,000 (US$42.5) per day until they paid up as a punishment.
'The plan is to implement this towing regulation by Monday. Car owners would have to pay Rp 500,000 per day, and the total depends on how long the cars stay at our compound,' he added.
Every car towed would be compounded at the Jakarta Transportation Agency's base in Rawa Buaya, West Jakarta, as well as the Pulogebang and Tanah Merdeka cargo terminals in East Jakarta and North Jakarta.
To help cope with the city's increasing number of vehicles, he said the administration would also start trialing an electronic parking system by the end of September, around Jl. Agus Salim in Central Jakarta.
'The full implementation will start in early 2015. We are going to test it first this month and see the impact on the traffic,' he explained.
He said he was hoping that the two regulations would push vehicle owners to stop parking their vehicles on the streets, which contributes to the frustrating traffic gridlock in the capital. (fzm/nfo)
