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In Jakarta, the city where I live the, the traffic is terrible. It gets worse during the rainy season. To overcome this, the local government has applied a new transportation system which is called the BUS WAY. It’s a system of roads special for designated buses crisscrossing the city from all direction. The idea was derived from a similar system in Bogota, Columbia. But, instead of relieving the traffic, it makes the traffic even worse.

To create the bus lines, the local government reduced the already congested road. For example, before the bus way exist there were three lanes after that one lane was transformed into a lane for bus way. Three lanes bad traffic, two lanes? (I don’t understand the way those guy think.

To make matter worse, in some areas cars, motorcycles and other buses are allowed to use the special lanes.

The bus way separators are also dangerous. They are small and barely seen by motorists. Several accidents have been reported. Some even died.

Although it's quite comfortable to ride in one of those buses, still the side effects are dissastorous.