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Complex issue of air pollution, simple solution: Walking

Most Indonesians only walk 3,500 steps a day despite medical research recommending 6,000 steps a day at a minimum.

Sausan Atika (The Jakarta Post)
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Wed, August 21, 2019

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Complex issue of air pollution, simple solution: Walking A man walks on the newly opened skybridge that connects the LRT Jakarta Velodrome station to Rawamangun Transjakarta bus stop on July 26. While the government speeds up infrastructure projects for public transportation, the Greater Jakarta Transportation Agency (BPTJ) has teamed up with the Health Ministry to promote health aspects of sustainable transportation, walking. (JP/Seto Wardhana)

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evere air pollution in the city, believed to largely come from vehicle emissions, has lead the government to turn to a healthy push by encouraging people to walk more and switch from using privately-owned vehicles to public transportation.  

Many are still reluctant, however, to use public transportation because of poor end-to-end infrastructure.

The Greater Jakarta Transportation Agency (BPTJ) has teamed up with the Health Ministry to promote health aspects of sustainable transportation. 

“The easiest ways to curb air pollution is walking and [using] public transportation, which are part of sustainable transportation,” BPTJ head Bambang Prihartono said during a discussion in Central Jakarta recently.

Sustainable transportation is one of the pillars outlined in the Greater Jakarta Transportation Master Plan, he cited.

A 2018 study for Greater Jakarta Urban Transportation Policy Integration (JUTPI) recorded 88 million trips a day in Greater Jakarta, a surge from 45 million in 2010. 

Only 8 percent of the number were people using public transportation to travel to their work places. The figure is far below the 60 percent of commuters that are expected to use public transportation regularly by 2029. 

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