Bicycle parking in Jakarta / Parkir sepeda di Jakarta

Sorry! The list now is at: http://changingtransport.wordpress.com/2012/02/08/bicycle-parking-in-jakarta-parkir-sepeda-di-jakarta/

Jakarta needs more people? Jakarta?

Glodok area of Jakarta

Tonight I attended a presentation by a couple of researchers from the World Bank. One of them made the “counterintuitive” assertion that Jakarta’s public transportation required greater density. He then mentioned, among other places, Curitiba, Brazil – the home of Bus Rapid Transit – as a model. When I spoke with him afterward, he again contended that 1) greater density, by itself, would lead to improved public transit in Jakarta and 2) Curitiba was denser.

So what’s wrong here?

All cats, no monkeys

Before coming to Jakarta, I imagined that I would hear birds sing and squawk, see squirrels scamper and lizards wriggle, battle giant bugs, and perhaps occasionally glimpse wild monkeys in a park. My actual experience has been almost completely different. Here, it’s lots of skinny cats and giant rats and not much else. Both are amazingly easy to find – often in close proximity to each other because the rats are much too big for the tiny cats to kill.