Photos Around The Bus

Again, I think picture can do more talking than I am so here goes

Let's Go Jogging

It turn out there are many transit bus stop for busways in Jakarta that will make you sweat. They have long corridors and give us two possibilities. First, we can get healthy because we have to jog all the way through the long corridor. Or we are going to get tired and cramp for the long walk. Here are pictures taken from bus stop at Pramuka :)

Panjang yaaaah.... Lumayan kalau lagi kebelet atau lagi hujan atau malah lagi puanaasss buanget....

Anyway, I also want to send wishes and greeting to those who celebrate The Lunar Year :) May you have great celebration and the new year will bring us prosperity.

Rainy Season

And here the rain season comes again! There is always mixed feelings for me whenever the rainy season has arrived again. Jakarta, with or without heavy rain always have this terrible traffic jam. And it gets worst whenever rains pouring down hard on earth. Perhaps, after the rain all those cars run slowly for fear having an accident due to slippery road. So, there the traffic jam for hours and hours even after the rain has stop. I remembered there once this heavy rain hit Jakarta. And afterwards, many people sort of "staying overnight" on the road. Totally stuck, awful traffic jam. You just stay there, at the exact spot for hours. That is why sometimes I see no different in driving your own car with using public transportation. Once you get stuck in the middle of traffic jam, the stress will be the same. You can't go anywhere else, just stay there. Waiting for the miracle to happen.

Guidance

One day you got a call to have job's interview or have this important matters to attend. And for that you need to go to a place which you have no idea where.

Though nowadays we can ask almost about everything to Google but not everyone able to read map or understand directions stated on Google maps. So, what clue we need to know first while using public transportation or our own car?

What I usually do is naturally asking whether the place located near the busway stop? If yes, then what is the name of the busway stop? Which side of the road if I am here at the busway stop now? Right or left? Or sometimes the busway stop only first clue for you before continuing with other public transportation. It's a good thing if the person you asked able to give you that kind of information.

So, what happen if this place is far away from the busway stop? Usually I asked them whether the place is far from a certain bus terminal. And which bus to take if I decided to go from that certain bus terminal. If you are such a forgetful person then make sure to write it all the information. Don't loose it until you arrive at the exact place. Don't hesitate to ask around though try not to look so nervous. Yeah, you have no idea where you are but doesn't mean you are having amnesia and forgot your whereabouts. People loves taking advantages on people who looks daze and confuse.

P.S. For those of you in Jakarta and using busway regularly, I recommended you to download TransJakarta on Blackberry so you will have a list of corridors for busway in Jakarta. Or perhaps you should get a map on bookstores. Or just download from their website.

Close to the nature

At bus stop for busway located at Dukuh Atas, it getting us close to the nature. Give us realization that the sun shining on to us softly or viciously. And how cloudy sky help us to cool down plus able to make us totally wet when cloudy sky changing into rainy day. Prepare yourself, your heart, your boots, raincoat and umbrella to enjoy sightseeing at bus stop Dukuh Atas.

Stay the same

Few days ago I took a busway to my destination around 3 PM on regulard day. From the nearest bus stop I got not-so-crowded busway. Relly my type as I was still able to have a seat.

However, when I arrived at the bus stop for transit, oh dear... Felt like already 5 PM after office hour. There was this long lining up... Not to mention the waited-busway took more than 30 minutes to finally arrive at the bus stop. Wondering is it because those new corridors with no additional busways? Or is it because the road being repaired effect the frequencies of the coming busways?

What a drag... I thought everything has changed for the better in the year 2011... It turn out something stay the same...

Happy New Year 2011

Good morning all! First of all, want to wish you HAPPY NEW YEAR 2011! Hopefully is going to be another best year ever to us...and of course in terms related to public transportation.

Well, I have not been using much of buses and busways recently. The buses seems to be running slow as most of their passengers already on holiday. On the other hand, passengers on busways were escalating during the holiday which made me feel...swamped...

With the opening of two more corridors frankly I still have doubts whether is going to solve any transportation problems here in Jakarta. During December road for busway at Sudirman street was damaged and need repairing. As the result, busways have to use regular street along with other cars and traffic jam happened. Again. I sincerely hope that with the new year, they will have more buses for busways so we could avoid standing in line for hours and reach our destination sooner.

Any hopes for regular buses? Nope... With them, getting safely at my destination already a bonus and expecting nothing more.

Anyway, I have been browsing here and there and found this interesting site about Trans Jakarta aka Busway... You may want to take a quick peek at it...

See you at another day :)

Busway corridor

Previously I read in Jakarta Globe about busway corridor that will link at least 9 malls, 6 universities and 8 hospitals. To be certain you may want to visit the website...

Hahahaha, what a coincidence as a few weeks ago I took photos of these loooong busway corridor located near Plaza Semanggi...and I was thinking what these corridor become in the future?

Wow, how exciting if there is a busway corridor go straight to the mall ;)