I'm Governmentally Sick of Traffic

6th of October, 2010, Wednesday; by noon, the skies were covered by a blight of water waiting to pour on the city of Jakarta and its surrounding areas. It is an usual event for Jakarta to experience heavy rain and flood, yet what was unusual about the 6th of October, 2010, was the UNBEARABLE traffic. We have posted this previously, yet this is how the government is reacting to it.

The problem was not the flood, the problem was the massive amount of vehicles and the social patterns of drivers. Imagine an intersection, flooded with vehicles on four sides of the crossroad, but also imagine the conundrum when all four sides are merging into one hive of vehicles (from public to private cars and... the motorcycles) in the middle of the intersection. No one is moving, everyone is barking at one car to the other, the traffic light’s count down seem to die down in function. Another unfortunate fact is that our beloved president and his cronies are one of the culprits. Everyday after office hours, the president would return to his abode in Cikeas, Bogor; causing a traffic halt; imagine the addition to the traffic on the 6th of October.

One sees plenty of government plated vehicles in the road violating multiple traffic laws, ie: running a red light, cutting off people illegally, etc. etc. The unspoken truth is their ignorance and underestimation of the traffic control, hence, no traffic. In addition, what the hell (excuse our french) are the police doing with all this??? They're not doing anything useful...

People in the city are suffering. From office employees to students:

“Its annoying to see 6 government official cars just holding off traffic, like I don’t have anything better to do, like they’re doing something important anyway! Isn’t it their job to serve us and guide us? What the f*ck?” said one of UNTAR Management student

“It took me 4 hours to get back to north Jakarta from South Jakarta, because the MPR building held off the traffic for the longest time, just because they’re ‘important”. said Intan, CIMB NIAGA bank Manager.

 mana rakyatnya gak ngelunjak,instansi Badan Pengawasan Gedung DKI aja msh mlanggar pnggunaan isyarat lampu | @TMCPoldaMetro @TrafficJakarta 8:04 AM Sep 29th via ÜberTwitter

Rio Octaviano, Chief of Road Safety Association tweeted.

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