TEMPO.CO, Jakarta – The Bogor administration has issued a policy barring students from driving their motor vehicles to school in a bid to ease traffic congestion in the city and keep schools from being packed with such vehicles.
“Not all schools have large parking lots that can accommodate their students’ motor vehicles,” Bogor Deputy Mayor Usmar Hariman said on Tuesday, March 3, 2015.
He added the lack of adequate parking lots had prompted students to park their vehicles outside of their schools, thus triggering gridlocks.
Usmar said the Bogor city administration planned to provide bus schools free of charge to transport students to and from schools. “We will furnish free buses so they don’t have to ride their motor vehicles,” he said.
Usmar said the city’s parking issues had been categorized as an emergency, and that the city government was also planning to adopt the hydraulic parking system as a solution.
“We are still kicking around the plans. Among the solutions is the construction of parking lots using the hydraulic system, which I will communicate to related agencies,” he said.
M. SIDIK PERMANA