Jakarta will have a public transportion system name MRT (Mass Rapid Transit) soon. This transport is important to reduce the own car rider. With this transportation mode, more passenger can be travveling to their destination more quickly.
The trains planned for use in the MRT project will travel at an average cruising speed of 26 km per hour and will be able to carry 400,000 passengers a day from Lebak Bulus to Dukuh Atas within 32 minutes.
As a mass transportation system, this system is plan to integrated with other transportation mode such us bus way, city bus, monorail, waterway (watertaxi).
"This project will eventually integrate with other transportation modes,such as Jakarta's busway, monorail and waterway (taxi)," said steering committee vice chairman Fauzi Bowo, the incumbent Jakarta Deputy Governor and winner of the recent city gubernatorial election, ass written by tjejakartapost.com. 
The central government and the city administration plann to start work in 2010 on an ambitious project to develop a Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) system for Jakarta.
Unveiling the time schedule for the project Monday, Transportation Ministry secretary general Wendy Aritenang, the chairman of the MRT steering committee, said construction was expected to complete by the end of 2014. 
We should be happy with this plan. Its seem to late if we see malaysia, thailand, moreover singapore that have a mrt system earlier. but, late is better than nothing. We always to hope, have a mass transportation, that safe, comfortable, quick, cheap.
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Tuesday, August 21, 2007
Jakarta Mass Transportation, Construction of Jakarta MRT to start in 2010
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