Jakarta Mass Rapid Transit
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| Overview | |
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| Owner | Government of Jakarta |
| Locale | Jakarta, Indonesia |
| Transit type | Rapid transit |
| Number of lines | 2 |
| Number of stations | 13 (North-South line - first phase) |
| Headquarters | Wisma Nusantara, 21st Floor, Jl. M.H. Thamrin 59, Jakarta 10350 - Indonesia - Telp (62)21 3103629, Fax (62) 21 3155846 |
| Website | MRT Jakarta |
| Operation | |
| Operation will start | August 2017 (Est.) |
| Operator(s) | PT MRT Jakarta |
| Number of vehicles | 16 six-car trainsets of Nippon Sharyo 3000R series |
| Headway | 5–10 minutes (planned) |
| Technical | |
| System length | 15.7 km (9.8 mi) (initial) |
| Track gauge | 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in) |
| Electrification | 1,500 V DC overhead catenary |
The Jakarta Mass Rapid Transit (Jakarta MRT) is a rapid transit system that currently is under construction in Jakarta, the capital city of Indonesia.
A groundbreaking ceremony was held on October 10, 2013, with Phase 1 of the project (Lebak Bulus to Hotel Indonesia Roundabout) to be opened to the public by August 2017.
Jakarta is the capital city of Indonesia, harboring over 9 million inhabitants. It is estimated that over four million residents of the surrounding Jabodetabek area commute to and from the city each working day. Transport issues have increasingly begun to attract political attention and it has been foreseen that without a major transportation breakthrough, the city will have complete traffic gridlock by 2020.
Since 1980, more than 25 general and special subject studies have been conducted related to possible Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) systems in Jakarta. One of the major reasons for the delays in tackling the problem was the economic and political crises of 1997-99. Before the crisis, a Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) scheme was considered as part of a new MRT calling for private sector involvement. After the crisis, the plan to rely on a BOT to provide financing proved unfeasible, and the MRT project was again proposed as a government-funded scheme.
Currently, public transportation in Jakarta serves only 56% of commuter trips. This figure urgently needs to be raised, as the city's 9.5% average annual growth rate of motorized vehicles far exceeds the 0.01% increase in road length between 2005 and 2010.
Public transportation now mainly consists of various types of buses, starting from the very small bemo and pickup-truck sized mikrolet, to slightly larger minibuses such as the widely used MetroMini and Kopaja minibuses, full sized city buses, and the TransJakarta bus rapid transit system. There are also both two and four wheeled taxis and the Jabodetabek Commuter Railway system.
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