[sustran] Re: Jakarta close to deciding on congestion pricing?

[Lee Schipper]

Hope it succeeds. Schemes like odd-even lead to acquisition of 2nd cars
and are never sustainable
Cross your chopsticks!
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> This may still fail to make it through the political process. It will be
> interesting to see.
> Paul
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>
> One legal boundary to go for Jakarta ERP
>
> Andreas D. Arditya, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Sat, 06/25/2011 10:48 PM
> http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2011/06/25/one-legal-boundary-go-jakarta-erp.html
>
> Jakarta came one step closer to implementing the much-anticipated
> electronic
> road pricing (ERP) system after a regulation was signed by the President,
> but the city administration says there is still a long way to go before
> the
> system becomes a reality.
>
> Transportation Minister spokesman Bambang S. Ervan confirmed on Friday
> that
> President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono had signed Government Regulation (PP)
> No.
> 32/2011 on Traffic Management and Engineering on June 21.
>
> He said the PP regulated steps to be taken by the regional administration
> to
> implement the ERP, which includes planning, managing traffic, procurement
> and preparing road facilities.
>
> “The regulation lists a number of requirements for the ERP, including that
> the system can be implemented where the number of vehicles are higher than
> the road capacity,” Ervan said Friday.
>
> However, Ervan said that the PP did not state that Jakarta was obliged to
> implement the ERP.
>
> The PP also mandates that regional administrations handle traffic problems
> by limiting the number of private cars, cargo vehicles, motorcycles and
> parking spaces, he added.
>
> The city has proposed that the ERP system discourage motorists from using
> private cars and instead opt for public transportation.
>
> The initial plan for the scheme is for the ERP to be applied on roads in
> the
> current “three-in-one” car pooling zones.
>
> Under the 3-in-1 system, enacted in 1994, private cars must have at least
> three people in them to enter main thoroughfares from Blok M in South
> Jakarta to Kota in West Jakarta during morning and afternoon rush hour on
> weekdays.
>
> The ERP would replace the 3-in-l system, and with it the infamous
> passenger
> surrogates, known locally as jockeys.
>
> Motorists can cheat the system by paying jockeys — who wait on the side of
> the roads leading to 3-in-1 zones to ride in their cars in the zone for a
> fee of Rp 25,000 (US$2.9) to Rp 30,000 per ride.
>
> Separately on Friday, Transportation Agency chief Udar Pristono said that
> although the President had approved the technical frame for the ERP’s
> implementation, it was unlikely that the system would be implemented in
> the
> near future.
>
> “We are still waiting for another PP currently being drafted by the
> Finance
> Ministry regarding a number of policies related to the ERP,” Pristono
> said.
>
> He said one of the main obstacles holding back the implementation of the
> ERP
> scheme was that the road-pricing levy was not included as tax or
> retribution
> in the 2009 Regional Tax and Retribution Law.
>
> “The new PP would solve this problem by categorizing the ERP fees as a tax
> or retribution,” he said.
>
> Pristono said that even after the PP was approved, the city would still
> need
> at least one year to procure the equipment needed for the system.
>
> The agency chief, however, said the city would hold a trial on a
> smaller-scale private vehicle limitation in Jakarta.
>
> “Later this year, the city will co-host the Southeast Asian Games. We will
> need to engineer the traffic so the event can be successful,” he said.
>
> Among the options under consideration are limiting the number of cars
> entering a number of roads based on license plate numbers, car color or
> special stickers.
>
> Pristono said that imposing an even-odd license plate monitoring system
> would require technology to read car license plates.
>
> Cars with license plates ending in a certain digit would not be allowed to
> travel on specific days.
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