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Jakarta - Motoring advice....of sorts

Jakarta - Motoring advice....of sorts

Rigval

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How do you feel when you see VW rims on Skoda?  

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Some of you readers may have noticed that I have not been posting regularly as of late. This is basically because I have been traveling a fair bit recently and I was over on the island of Java for nearly a week's worth of R & R after attending a (non-motoring) business event in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta.

 

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Now Jakarta is indeed a place which all of you should go to if given the chance.

This metropolis is the largest city in the region and it is indeed an eye opener. It is a city where there is a love for statues and monuments of a grand scale and it is also a city that is also epic when it comes to motoring in and around it. It should be, as Jakarta has over twenty million people living in it.

 

When you have a city that has that many people and haphazard town planning (as the city has basically grown to enormous proportions and engulfed the surrounding areas where tiny roads cannot cope with the growth) traffic jams are the norm. When I first touched down I was ushered into a Toyota Kijang Innova




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Jakarta's traffic is really terrible. 8 million bikes & 3 million cars squeezed into a land area only 14% larger than Singapore. By comparison, SG has 600,000 cars only.

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Is a matter of time Singapore will the same as them. Unless we have a "better" transport Minister . . LOL . .

 

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