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Transjakarta to operate 1,000 more buses later this year
City-owned bus management company PT Transportasi Jakarta (TransJakarta) will operate 1,000 buses later this year in an attempt to improve the public transportation mode, said the company’s operational director, Daud Joseph, in Jakarta on Friday.
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A Transjakarta bus with a slogan: 'Merdeka atau Macet' (Freedom or Congestion) on its side windows passes through the Hotel Indonesia traffic circle. The slogan is part of the effort to persuade motorists to shift to public transportation. (Antara Photo/Akbar Nugroho Gumay)
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ity-owned bus management company PT Transportasi Jakarta (TransJakarta) will operate 1,000 buses later this year in an attempt to improve the public transportation mode, said the company’s operational director, Daud Joseph, in Jakarta on Friday.
He said that currently his company operated some 1,400 buses along the 12 TransJakarta bus corridors and the routes that serve feeder buses.
“So we hope to operate 2,400 buses by the end of this year. But we need some 3,000 buses to optimally serve all corridors,” said Daud, adding that the deployment of more buses would improve the TransJakarta service, as reported by tribunnews.com.
He said his company had terminated its cooperation with five bus operators because the condition of their buses was no longer roadworthy.
“They only have old buses. There are holes on their floors and their roofs. We have terminated our contracts with five operators,” said Daud, adding that there were still 50 buses whose condition was substandard being operated by TransJakarta.
Those substandard buses would cease operating when the new buses arrived, he added. (bbn)
