Chief of Traffic Bureau Senior Commissioner Royke Lumowa on Friday said areas with the most traffic jam spots were in East Jakarta, South Jakarta and West Jakarta. Other areas with high number of traffic jam locations were North Jakarta, Central Jakarta, Bekasi, Tangerang and Depok.
He said traffic jams happening in Jakarta was mainly due to bad driving habits, a large number of meeting points and constriction of road lines and also the presence of street vendors and illegal parking space.
Royke added the uncontrollable sales of vehicles in the city that`s not equal to the capacity of the roads also contributed to the traffic jams in Jakarta.
According to data from Jakarta Metropolitan Police Office, about 20.7 million of people were crossing the streets in Jakarta every day during 2010. The total number of vehicles recorded last year was 11,362,396 units consisting of 3,118,050 cars and 8.244.346 motorcycles.
(T.A014/A051/HAJM/O001)
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