Monday, June 16, 2008

Jakarta

Another big city with a wealth of transport options.
Although the city streets are some of the most crowded on earth.

Visit the abandoned Monorail. Real life meets The Simpsons?

There is also a series of busways under the banner of TransJakarta.
They operate as a series of seperate road corridors crossing the capital, it is a quick and easy method of getting a high density service without having construction costs of something like light rail. I understand that that kind of system does have some drawbacks, the desity of service cannot match that of light rail and unless you modify the buses you can only handle small peak loads.
Brisbane, Australia has a very similar system.

The commuter rail system is famouse for its images of people riding the roof, front side of the trains, although during the day you would not normally see this, peak hour in a city of millions tend to have that effect.

Found another source of information, skyscrapercity, originally about, you guessed it, skyscraper development it now branches out into all things on the development front including transport. It occured to me that I need to work on including more links. As for every post I might visit 30-40 web sites there is alot of quantity missing.

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