If we juxtapose this blog post with earlier ones about the lack of public toilets in Jakarta, the moral is "watch your pees and queues".
Yes, busway (and subway and monorail) first, than we can think about giving those brave cyclists their own lane.
I don't think that many people want to cycle their way in the hot tropical air from their home in Bekasi or Tangerang to Central Jakarta, do they?
I have to agree with Bozos in this.
Course they don't want to bike that far, Reijin, which is why I'm repeating the suggestion of having bike storage at various terminals.
And I'd far rather bike on a nice relatively pollution-free road than sit in one of those ekonomi non-AC bus wrecks which is now my usual mode of transport.
As for the proposed subway, would it be viable under a city that has sunk almost a metre in 20 years (thanks to the depletion of groundwater)?
But J, those pretty ladies in high heels who wear tight skirts to go to office and ibu-ibu with big hair (you know the type, who are usually strolling around the mall with Louis Vuitton bag in one hand and shopping bags on the other) cannot be expected to ride bikes, they'd become another distraction and before long everyone slows down just to watch ladies on bikes. You can't expect all ladies wear trousers either, how boring your office would be if everybody wears pants...
**Anita - who immediately connects bicycle and fashion for no apparent reason **
'Matrons' would be a good English word for ibu-ibu, Anita. Incidentally, for we Brits 'pants' refers to 'underpants' rather than trousers, or trews as you probably say now you're in Scotland. I'm not sure, therefore, about your notion of an office full of ladies in pants.
As for your association of ideas, I thought that everyone knew that fashion goes in cycles.
I thought the Scots called 'em "breeks", trews are what soldiers in Highland regiments wore.
Culture vultures may like to know that Miko is right ~ breeks or brakes are generally used when referring to trousers.
I assumed trews because I remember a song popular on the radio some - ahem - 50 years ago, called Donald, Where's Your Troosers sung by Andy Stewart ~ later re-released with a version that included a rock and roll take ... The title referred to Scotsmen wearing kilts (skirts ~ think of the films Braveheart and Rob Roy).
Donald, Where's Your Troosers?
I just got in frae the Isle of Skye
I'm not very big and I'm awfully shy
The ladies shout as I go by
"Donald where's your trousers?"
Chorus
Let the winds blow high,
Let the winds blow low,
Down the street in m' kilt I go
And all the ladies say "Hello
Donald where's your troosers?"
2. A lady took me to a ball
And it was slippery in the hall
I was afraid that I might fall
'Cause I had nae on me troosers!
Chorus
3. They'd like to wed me everyone
Just let them catch me if they can
You canna put the breeks on a highland man
Who doesn't like wearing troosers.
Chorus
4. To wear the kilt is my delight,
It isn't wrong, I know it's right.
The highlanders would get a fright
If they saw me in troosers.
Chorus
5. Well I caught a cold and me nose was raw
I had no handkerchief at all
So I hiked up my kilt and I gave it a blow,
Now you can't do that with troosers.
Chorus
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