Jakarta MRT Ordinance is Approved

The dream to have a public transportation is looking to true. The City Council of Jakarta on Tuesday approved two ordinances that will become the legal basis for the development of the city's Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) system. This choice is eliminate other idea about MRT, subway that look need high cost. The other project is Jakarta monorail, that stopped because lack of budget.

Following month-long deliberations, the council's seven main parties agreed in a plenary session on the establishment of PT MRT Jakarta -- a city-owned company -- and the city's investment in it. The ordinances were initially scheduled for approval in early May but were delayed because of opposition from the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS), the National Awakening Party (PKB) and the National Mandate Party (PAN).

The US$800 million project is part of a joint effort by the administration and the government to address Jakarta's abysmal traffic conditions. About 85 percent of the funding (Rp 8.3 trillion) will come from loans from the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC).

The government will pay for 42 percent of the loans at an annual interest rate of 0.4 percent. The administration will cover the remainder.

The project's first phase, estimated to cost Rp 200 billion, consists of feasibility studies, the establishment of MRT Jakarta and the construction of a 14.3 kilometer line from Lebak Bulus in South Jakarta to Dukuh Atas in Central Jakarta.
The second phase of development will be the construction of a line from Dukuh Atas to Kota in West Jakarta.

The MRT is expected to be in operation by 2015. If this project is finished, we will have two mass transportation moda, busway dan MRT.

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Home Sweet Home with Modern Furniture

We need a house, for rest, safety, propherty, or investation. Modern house is a place for many fuction, not only for sleeping. To support many function, an house need many accesories, and the main needed is furniture. It's can be a table, desk, bedroom, sofa, chairs, etc. For a big house, if we able, we can suply our house with many furniture. But if we have just a small house, we have to make a priority. So, the best furniture is a choice.

There are many modern furniture sell online by internet. You just type of modern furniture or contemporary furniture, and you will get million result from that keyword. As an online trader, they use an high security process, so we have not to be worry to make a transaction with that website. Commonly, they accept many credit card and google echeckout on transaction.

As I have visited, there a website that sell many modern furniture, also Italian furniture. Now, the choices is up to us. It is depend on a need, priority and sure, a cost. But, we can make a transaction easier with online marketing.
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Make Your House More Fresh with Plant

Nowadays, a house is not only a building, but have many function, for family living, as place to come home, pleasure, family reunion, celebrating some event, etc. The main use is for living everyday. To support this, house must have not only a phisical building but with many accesories, like kitchenware, houseware, and to make our house fresh, we need a green yard. A comfortable house can make us more comfort, relax, enjoy, make a positif think and so increase a productifity. A beautifull house is a combination of good building and a beautifull garden.

In the city, where air polution is high, the need of plant for house is very important. To cultivate many plant, we need a quality planters. Indoor planters for plant in the house, and outside the house, like terace, backyard, or garden, there is outdoor planters. There are a various quality planter provide by platerixchange.com. There are indoor planters and so outdoor planters.

This product is made from a quality stuff, designed as an unique artistic shape, it is the better choice for a planter purpose. You can order online by visited a decorative planters distributor, is dedicated to bringing the widest selection of high quality residential and commercial planters to the internet. Make your house, yard green, feel your house more fresh, comfortable. And enjoy the life.
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A Unique Mailbox for Your House

However in the information technology era all purpose can be handle by internet, like mail, but in some purpose there is something can not be changed. Like on sending a christmas card, birthday card, wedding card, invitation card, we need a mail service. To receive the mail, surely, we need a mailbox. An antique, artistic mailbox is a good for your house accessory.

There are many unique, high Quality and artistic residential and commercial mailboxes provide by mailboxixchange.com and can be order by internet. There are about 2500 type and model of mailbox and curbside decor products. I think all product is designed for art, with antique shape, and beautifull color, make this mailbox look so sweet. It can be an acessory to complement your front gate with a beautifull mailbox.

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Toward A Healthy City

Jakarta is the largest city in Indonesia. With population about 7 milion and 5 million commuter that work in Jakarta cause this city not only dense, crowded, hot, dirty, and so not health to living. Traffic jam is become a common looking on the street arround Jakarta. River with a disty brown water to. Is city with this condition is helath for living? I think not.

By WHO, (1992) describe the healthy city as a city that all project is rooted in a concept of what city is and a vision of what that is living, breathing, growing and constanly changing. A healthy city is one that improve its environment and expands its resourcess so that people can support each other in achieving their highest potential.

Many way is taken by Jakarta Goverment to reduce air polution, water polution, traffic jam, crime, etc, nut the result is still far from succes. May because so many problem is stuck Jakarta, like no way to solve a problem. As a capital of Indonesia, Jakarta become a central for many bussines office, national and multinational branch office, make this city is a source for money for many Indonesia Citizen.

So, when Jakarta is comfortable for living? May be need a long tim eto get this result. But, all have tro participate on pursuing this. It is not only a task of goverment, but all Jakarta citizen. What can we do? Throw a waste into a trash bin, dont't throw into the river. Obey all rule when riding. With our participation, and a good will from goverment, a healthy city will come true.
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Transportation in Manila, Philippines

As a capital city of Republic of Philippines, Manila become a dense city. As a big city Manila have many problem, once is traffic jam. In this post we will know about transporation system in Manila to provide a good transportation for it's citizen.

Transportation in Manila divide into some moda, Buses, jeepneys, LRT, and taxis are readily available for use in getting around the city. About 14 percent of the 158,810 km (98,110 mi) of roads in the Philippines are paved, this is in spite of the difficult mountainous terrain.

The most popular mode of transportation in Manila is the jeepney. As the name implies, it is basically a colorful jeep that looks like those used by the Americans during World War II. They have regular stops, as do buses, but will also stop if they are flagged down.

A modern transportation moda is LRT (Light Transit System). This moda is provide transportation in Metro Manila, Capital City of Manila. Metro manila or the National Capital Region (NCR) is the greater metropolitan area of the city of Manila, the national capital of the Philippines. Its residential population of 11,099,800 (2007 estimate) makes it the eleventh most populous metropolitan area in the world and the Second largest in Southeast Asia. However during the daytime its population well exceeds 16 million.[citation needed] Metro Manila is one of the three defined metropolitan areas in the Philippines, the others being Metro Cebu and Metro Davao.



The Manila LRT is the first metro system in Southeast Asia, built earlier than the Singapore MRT by three years. The system is not related to the Manila Metro Rail Transit System, or the Blue Line, which forms a completely different but linked system.

This moda is the fastest, cheapest way to go. Because of the fastest and cheapest, LRT become a favourite for tourist on travelling Manila. Metro-Manila, the metropolitan area of the capital of the Philippines is home to some 10 million people. A light metro system (Mass Rail Transit - MRT), which runs mainly elevated, is being developed.



There are about 4 line of LRT, LRT 1 to LRT 4. LRT 1 extension south 12km. The first phase stations are named (from Baclaran) Redemptorist, Manila International Airport, Asia World, Ninoy Aquino, Dr. Santos, Manuyo Uno, Las Pilas, Zapote, Talaba, and Niyog.

LRT 2. This line is elevated between Doroteo JosE (LRT 1) to Cubao (MRT 3) in Quezon City, and further on to Santolan in Pasig. It will run along Recto Ave, Magsaysay Blvd and Aurora Blvd.

MRT 3 (popularly called METROSTAR) runs elevated along EDSA (Epifanio de los Santos Ave.) ring road (except Buendia station which is underground). The central section opened on 16 Dec. 1999, the southern section, which connects to LRT 1 followed on 20 July 2000. The total length is now 16.8 km, once the northern section is built the line will be 24 km.

MRT 4 running northeast from Doroteo Jose/Recto into Quezon City connecting with North Ave. Stn. on line 3, with 20 stations have been completed by 2007.


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Bangkok, Thailand

Bangkok, the capital of Thailand Kingdom, in thai called as Krung Thep Maha Nakhon, is the 22nd most populous city in the world. Bangkok province or the areas bounded by the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA), has a registered population nearing 7 million people, and the Bangkok Metropolitan Area.

Which covers five provinces surrounding the capital province in the central region of Thailand registers a little over 10 million. However, like many large cities, the city has seen a great flux of immigrants who are not properly listed in the city's administration. The population is therefore much more realistic in the band of 15-20 million.



An elaborate network of canals known as khlongs gave Bangkok the nickname "Venice of the East" at a time when most transportation was by boat. Today, nearly all of the canals have been filled in and converted into streets. While many khlongs still exist with people living along them and markets often being operated along the banks, most are severely polluted.[7] A notable khlong market is the floating market in Taling Chan district. Through downtown Bangkok runs the Khlong Saen Saeb, which has a canal boat service, the most extensive of which is the Chao Phraya Express Boat with as many as thirty stops along the both banks of the Saen Saeb. However, there are limitations as the further north the route is the farther apart the stations are, impeding the ability of this water taxi to function as a true mass transit system.

Roads

Several elevated highways, newly rebuilt intersections, and many partially finished road and rail projects dot the landscape around greater Bangkok, but have done little to overcome the notorious traffic jams on Bangkok's surface roads as private vehicle usage continues to outstrip infrastructure development. Many city residents complain that they spend more than half their waking day on the streets on an open-air city bus.

Bangkok also includes many shopping and business roads like the Sukhumvit Road which includes highrise business buildings, apartments, and shopping malls, Sukhumvit Road is where many foreigners like to come shopping. The Wireless Road or Thanon Wittayu include the Stock Exchange of Thailand and many business buildings like the All Seasons Place Complex which includes the Conrad Bangkok, a shopping mall, and many other business offices. The Thanon Khaosan or Khaosan Road is also well-known by foreigners. One of the popular shopping roads for teenagers is Rama I road, which has the Siam Paragon, Siam Square, and the Siam Discovery Center.

Bangkok may be known as one of the worst cities in the world for traffic, but it has built an expressway or second-level road on almost every road in the city center, and there continue to be plans for new expressways monthly. The government has also tried many times to improve the state of the traffic in the city center, which can sometimes take an hour just to move one kilometer.[citation needed]

Rail systems

In 1999 an elevated two-line Skytrain (officially called BTS) metro system was opened. The remains of a failed elevated railroad project (the Hopewell project) can still be seen all the way from the main railroad station out towards Don Mueang Airport. Due to the Asian financial crisis of 1997 construction was halted and the concrete pillars were left unused.



The MRT subway system opened for use in July 2004. The MRT connects the northern train station of Bang Sue to the Hua Lamphong central railway station near the city center, while also going through the eastern part of Bangkok. It connects to the BTS system at BTS stations Mo Chit, Asok, and Sala Daeng. Many stations have various designs and concepts with many to install retail shops and transit malls to draw more income from commuters.

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