In a move that will hopefully make it much easier and cheaper for people to travel into Jakarta from its satellite cities (as well as cut down on the number of cars entering the capital each day), the Transjabodetabek bus service that connects Bogor, Depok, Bekasi, and Tangerang to Jakarta will add 20 new routes to its services and 60 new buses.
Pande Putu Yasa, the director of Passenger Transportation Housing Djakarta (PPD), Transjabodetabek’s operating company, said the new routes will be spread throughout Jakarta’s satellite cities.
“Since we will have 600 new buses, we will add 20 new routes. We will begin to comb housing complexes in Bogor, Depok, Bekasi, and Tangerang [for the most effective routes],” Pande said on Thursday as quoted by Kompas.
PPD is receiving the 600 new buses from the Ministry of Transportation to strengthen the services of the Transjabodetabek buses, as requested by Jakarta Governor Basuki “Ahok” Tjahaja Purnama.
Currently, Transjabodetabek only has 88 buses and serves just four routes, so this will be a massive expansion of their services.
In addition, Ahok has also asked PPD to integrate their payment system with that of the Transjakarta so that passengers would only have to spend Rp 3,500 on a combined one way trip using both bus systems.
