Busway, is began to fade Primadona

Busway, is began to fade Primadona


Busway. The word is the more familiar sounds and ejected from the mouth of the Indonesian people, especially residents of Jakarta. Yes, bus Transjakarta or better known as this busway, is one of the mainstay of public transport DKI government which began to be excellent.

Busway is a Bus Rapid Transit system (BRT) or bus rapid transport system that began officially operated by the government of DKI Jakarta on January 15, 2004. Busway is an alternative solution to mass public transportation offered by the government in large cities for its citizens to enjoy public transport that is fast, convenient, and safe. Besides in Jakarta, the busway has also been applied in other big cities in Indonesia, namely Yogyakarta (Trans Jogja), Bandung (Bandung Metro Trans), Bogor (Trans Pakuan), Pekanbaru (Pekanbaru Metro Trans), and Palembang (Trance Musi) . Over the past 6 years, the busway in Jakarta has been serving eight bus corridor with a fleet of 426 units over a total length of 123.35 km track (longest path in the world in BRT system) and has 141 stops. Although the time to cause the pros and cons, in fact the busway began to be seen from the number of passangger.

Busway not simply be a means of mass transportation only, but also serves as a bus tour through the city due to various central government facilities, such as Jalan MH Thamrin, the National Monument (Monas), Jakarta government offices, Gedung Kesenian Jakarta, Gambir Station, and so forth. So no wonder, based on data from official site Transjakarta (www.transjakarta.co.id), busway in Jakarta until April 2010 has been carrying passengers on average 250,000 people per day.Operation of the busway is also a local government strategy to reduce congestion on major roads in big cities, especially the capital city. Hence, the busway is equipped with special facilities and infrastructure, including shelter (bus stop for the busway), an electronic ticketing system, and also deliberately given a special line of (actual) should not be passed by other vehicles.

There are 4 main reasons why residents of Jakarta busway does preferring to use public transport than others, namely the lower prices, to connect the various places in Jakarta with a faster, more convenient compared with other public transport, as well as better security. Air-conditioned bus fare (air conditioning) for Rp3.500, - per trip is considered citizens quite affordable, especially for long-range goals for passengers and transit lanes on the busway station need not pay any more, provided it does not come out from the stop. Unfortunately, for 6 years developing and managing the busway does not match the expectations of its users.

The most common complaints expressed by loyal busway passengers today are old and long queues at the bus stop and shelter, especially during the hours of solid (especially entry and exit office hours). Passengers also must be willing to overcrowding on the bus. The main cause is the number of buses and busway transport capacity that can not offset the number of passengers resulting in the accumulation of passengers. This condition is exacerbated by the annexation of other road users into the busway lane so that increasingly hamper the pace of the busway to get to the bus stop on time. As a result, long queues and scramble into action to push each other so the bus stopped at the stop was inevitable.

Less optimal care is also felt quite disturbing for the passengers on the busway. Unscrupulous drivers who sometimes like to reckless or who does not turn on the notification destination stop so that the guards are yelling pintulah stop destination to make passengers feel like a ride busway bus. Moreover, the absence of an image map on the bus to make passengers who are not familiar with busway routes, mainly foreign tourists, into confusion.The map was displayed on the stop-busway station is not rare letters and pictures are too small or located too high so that passengers still have to ask the officers guard the door.

Busway passengers also complained about the poor facilities, equipment, and infrastructure. Sometimes the passengers should avoid droplets of water falling from the roof of the bus stop that leak when it rains or from the roof of the bus because of a broken air conditioner. Pedestrian bridge that is too long, far, and high, sometimes perforated, it is not friendly to children, pregnant women, elderly people (seniors), especially for the disabled.Although there are several bridges in the elevator, but his condition has been damaged and unfit for use. The absence of safety belts, special space for a wheelchair, or braille are some examples of the incompleteness of busway facilities. The atmosphere stops the hot, sultry, sometimes unkempt and shabby also make passengers increasingly uncomfortable. Not to mention the stop-stop and the bridge is neglected because it is still unused despite long-established, as happened in the infrastructure along the Tanjung Priok Prumpung toward or from cawabgtowardgrogol.

Related to security, to date criminal cases in the busway practically still rare. Conversely, the case of woe which was often the case.The case of the most common accidents mainly caused by the lack of public discipline, in this case road users in road traffic, such action serobot other vehicles as well as the people who carelessly cross. Most of them are still often ignore regulations with a special track pilfer Transjakarta bus. Act of annexation of this path is not only potentially cause an accident, but also create traffic jams.Meanwhile, the case of the burning and exploding busway is due to electrical interference on the AC cord ampere dynamo.Sometimes there is also a busway driver who parked his bus at the stop with the door wide enough distance, so that when the full stops and passengers jostling each other, the risk of falling from the lips of a tall door is very large. As a solution, the existence of the busway, especially in Jakarta, is now even considered to be the cause of congestion and accidents.

Indeed, busway operators and local governments have been and are trying to provide better services, particularly to reduce congestion and queues of passengers. For example, the addition of Transjakarta fleet units, feeder bus (feeder bus that connects several areas to the stop-nearest busway station), as well as the construction of shelter and gas refueling stations (SPBBG) done in stages. In addition, in some areas also built an electronic portal and manual busway lane in anticipation of annexation. Bridge facilities, shelters, and buses are also trying to repair damaged.However, the root of all the above problems is not simply due to lack of maturation of the concept planning, development, and management of infrastructure, facilities, advice, and busway infrastructure, but without the development of quality human resources development and management thus becomes unorganized. Hence, it is very important to do activities to improve human resources and cooperation between governments, operators and workers busway, as well as society as a busway users.

One of the activities of human resource development can be done is the holding of training for operators and drivers busway thus have the awareness to provide the best possible public service to the community, especially the training of drivers so that the drivers who obey traffic rules and concerned with safety and passenger comfort. On the other hand, local governments are making and make the policy must also have a sensitivity to accommodate the needs of its citizens, especially for those who have special needs, into the design and construction of transportation facilities, especially the busway. The government should also be able to act decisively against violations committed by users of the road, such a steal and a busway lane crossing the road carelessly. Another solution to reduce congestion and long queues at bus stops, the busway station at rush hour is to increase the government's ability to regulate and improve the quality of other public transportation facilities, such as Metromini, bajaj, microbus, and so forth.Increased public awareness for the orderly pass-cross is absolutely necessary. In addition, community care to be involved in maintaining the cleanliness and maintenance of facilities, facilities, and public transport infrastructures, are also significant.

With still many complaints from its consumer, it seems that the existence of the busway has not been successful in realizing its vision, namely making the busway as public transport is capable of providing public services are fast, safe, comfortable, humane, efficient, cultured and internationally. Busway is only one of many examples of a solution that even considered a new problem.Therefore, we all still need a lot of clean up for the busway is not an example of that so quickly faded belle prestige due to lack of awareness and quality of human resources of Indonesian citizens.