Thanks John, definitely a bad news from a country which is planning to have EST strategy.. If this is true than this looks like worst kind of discrimination .... anybody has seen the transportation bill to find what is the exact language used? can somebody share this? thanks Sudhir <div class="gmail_quote">2009/6/29 John Ernst <<a href="mailto:johnitdp@gmail.com">johnitdp@gmail.com</a>> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Toyota has long led the automobile market in Indonesia with the locally manufactured 'Kijang' utility vehicle. Yamaha dominates the more rapidly growing motorcycle market, with Honda catching up from a later (local manufacturing) start. (So, yes, it is not coincidental that most of the plans for Indonesian highway expansion are developed with assistance from JICA.) Several Indonesian NGOs lobbied for an improvement in the transportation bill as it was reauthorized this year, and the article posted represents the general disappointment at lack of progress -- and regress concerning requirements for the physically challenged. Note that the 'expert' calculation of total gridlock for Jakarta in 5-years is based simply on projecting vehicle registrations against square meters of road space and noting that Jakarta will be able to fill up every square meter of road space by having every car owner come out at once and park on the street. Not exactly an 'expert' analysis, but it was successful in giving the media a handle on the problem. The figure was probably initially developed to lobby for more road construction, but has been equally effective at pointing out the hopelessness of trying to build enough roads to keep up with motor vehicle growth. What is not noted in the article is that the current, sub-optimally implemented, BRT in Jakarta uses road space about 8 times more efficiently than car traffic (roughly 4000 vs 500 passengers per hour per direction at peak hour) . There is potential to double the BRT efficiency fairly easily, meaning adding 1 lane of BRT equates to adding 16 lanes for cars. Although Jakarta has over 100km of BRT operating, its poor quality implementation has kept it from catching the imagination of the press. A good lesson for other cities. Best, John Ernst Vice Director, SE Asia ITDP - The Institute for Transportation and Development Policy Promoting environmentally sustainable and equitable transportation worldwide <a href="http://www.itdp.org" target="_blank">www.itdp.org</a> <div class="im"> At 07:42 PM 6/28/2009, Todd Edelman, Green Idea Factory wrote: >Which automobile makers are among the most active in Indonesia? Or >with the highest sales? </div><div><div></div><div class="h5">-------------------------------------------------------- To search the archives of sustran-discuss visit <a href="http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=014715651517519735401:ijjtzwbu_ss" target="_blank">http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=014715651517519735401:ijjtzwbu_ss</a> -------------------------------------------------------- If you get sustran-discuss via YAHOOGROUPS, please go to <a href="http://list.jca.apc.org/manage/listinfo/sustran-discuss" target="_blank">http://list.jca.apc.org/manage/listinfo/sustran-discuss</a> to join the real sustran-discuss and get full membership rights. ================================================================ SUSTRAN-DISCUSS is a forum devoted to discussion of people-centred, equitable and sustainable transport with a focus on developing countries (the 'Global South'). </div></div></blockquote></div> -- Sudhir Gota Transport Specialist CAI-Asia Center Unit 3510, 35th Floor, Robinsons-Equitable Tower, ADB Avenue, Ortigas Center, Pasig City Metro Manila, Philippines 1605 Tel: +63-2-395-2843 Fax: +63-2-395-2846 <a href="http://www.cleanairnet.org/caiasia">http://www.cleanairnet.org/caiasia</a> Skype : sudhirgota