Lihat Peta Lebih Besar
Every
morning thousand people from outskirt of Jakarta must struggle to come in their
office on time. Many years ago they depended on only limited transportation
facilities, like private car, bus and motor cycle. Few people went by poor train, dirty and often
delay. They must prepare around two or three hours before they can arrive on
time in their office. Since 2008 there was a great change.
On 2008
Indonesia government built double track rail at most of outskirt lanes. There
was changing how people move from home to their office. Every morning they don’t need to prepare long
time to arrive in their office. It just takes 30 minutes or one hour. People
just go to nearest station and waiting around 5 minute to catch commuter or suburban train.
In
beginning of its operation, only few people switched from private car and bus
to commuter train. Many people worried about their safety because many accidents
in train before. They don’t know how train operator served its customers. It
took almost two years when people realized changing on suburban transportation.
When
more passengers enjoyed train service and told their experience to colleges, another
people followed to switch their vehicle. According to train operator there are around
new 50.000 passengers in the train. Commuter train has attracted people. It is fastest
transportation for those who live about 50 kilometers until 100 kilometers
outskirt of Jakarta.
Now
train operator increase their commuter train service. They import more coach to
multiply train schedule. Train range schedule is every 15 minutes in the
morning and 30 minutes after 09.00 am. It will be shorten in every 10 minutes
and 15 minutes.
However
among suburban trains, there is cheapest train. Its cost is only Rp 1,500, or
less than 10 cent US dollar for single trip, beside Rp 6,000 (around 70 cents
US dollars) for air conditioned coach. Government still operated this train to
help poor people to access public transport. Government subsidized this train
operation cost.
It is called economic train but
people often call Supermarket Train. Why did people call it?
When passenger
comes in the coach, they will see many people selling inside. They offer from
food, fruit, newspaper, cigarette, drink, household utensils, book, and so on. Most
of products come from China, even fruit. If you want to see how great China
economic you just see and seat in this Supermarket Train.
People
enjoy this train when they want to go to Jakarta and in the same time they want
to buy something without they have to go to market. Or, sometime people fail to
get air conditioned train, they choose Supermarket Train because this train
come earlier.
So, let’s
enjoy one of Jakarta side through Supermarket Train.
