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Saturday, May 22, 2010

Monorail Jakarta

Monorail Jakarta was a Mass Transit System with single rail train, which is under construction in Jakarta, Indonesia. Monorail is a transportation system that uses a single track, where trains run to follow the track rail. Called the Light Rapid Transit for light construction and walking on a special track, with a capacity in the serve a lot of commuter traffic. There is two lanes are being built: Green Lane serve Semanggi-Casablanca-Kuningan-Semanggi, and Blue Lane serve Kampung Melayu-Casablanca-Tanah Abang-Roxy. The project was confronted by financial difficulties and technological changes alternately. This project in 2003 was originally given to Malaysian company MTrans, KL Monorail builder, construction began in June 2004 but postponed only after walking a few weeks. MTrans MoU was canceled, and then the project given to a consortium of major projects in Singapore Omnico, which proposes using maglev technology by ROTEM of South Korean companies.

In July 2005, the project changed hands again with the new MoU to a consortium of Indonesian companies PT Bukaka Technique Utama, PT INKA, and Siemens Indonesia. Omnico oppose this, and the lates schedule of 2007 is unlikely to happen. But in October 2005 the construction still continues, with the assumption that the basic foundation "piles" and pillars can be used by the consortium that won the tender and technology.

But the monorail’s piles that stands in Jakarta increasingly obscure fate. In the current financial crisis, DKI Jakarta’s Provincial Government was very pessimistic going to be able to build a monorail that has long held by Malaysia and Thailand. The global financial crisis makes Jakarta’s Government difficult to find lenders that willing to finance the monorail projects which is worth of 600 million U.S. dollars.

Now that piles just only make another traffic jam in Jakarta. The vehicle that want to pass was blocked by the piles. This project that should be the solution of Jakarta’s traffic problem even become a new problem of traffic jam in Jakarta. The Government just waste money by doing this project. They should estimate the problem that may be appear when project uncomplete. The government seems not think about the resources that we have before implementing this project and not think whether we can or not implement this project. And then in the end all just be in vain.

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