Jakarta – the Indonesian capital - share huge similarities with Lagos state, Nigeria.

Jakarta is officially home to about 10 million people, but the population of the greater metropolitan area swells to 30 million.

Just as Lagos, Jarkata, the population explosion occurring in this urban city has created infrastructural deficits especially for basic amenities.

One of the basic infrastructural deficits is seen in the transport sector. This has led to incessant traffic congestion in this urban city making it one of the traffic gridlock capitals of the world.

Over the decades, traffic congestion in Jakarta relentlessly worsened because of an increase in car ownership. Yet, the road infrastructure remained relatively unexpanded. This has left the resident to spend more hours in traffic.



According to the transport ministry, the average peak hour speed has “significantly decreased” to 10 kilometers an hour (6.2 miles per hour). It often can take two or more hours to move 5 kilometers (3 miles) in some pockets of the city.

Combating the huge traffic challenge in Jakarta has been on for several decades.

However, the first and long-awaited subway in Indonesia was commissioned last Sunday in Jakarta.

Indonesia is the 4th most populous nation in the world.  It has a population estimated at 269.54 million in 2019.




This metro-line is planned to help relieve crippling traffic gridlock in Southeast Asia’s biggest economy.

The project has been planned since the 1980s, but its construction was delayed by political crises, red tape and funding disagreements.

Trips across the 16-kilometer (10-mile) transit line from the southern neighborhood of Lebak Bulus to Jakarta’s downtown and is expected to take less than 30 minutes.

The subway includes seven elevated and six underground stations. Two consortiums of local and Japanese companies built it.

Passengers can ride for free until the end of the month, after which operator PT MRT Jakarta has said tickets will cost the equivalent of between 70 cents and $1.



This subway line, the latest of many infrastructure improvements across Jakarta, is aimed at helping it catch up with other Southeast Asian capitals such as Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, and Bangkok in public transport.

While inaugurating the transit line, President Joko Widodo also presided over a groundbreaking ceremony to mark the beginning of the second phase: an 8-kilometer (5-mile) northward line planned for completion by 2024.

The two projects are being built at a cost of $2.6 billion.

In Lagos, a similar metro line project has been ongoing for years. Its completion dates have been postponed severally. The Blue line which is being constructed will be 27km long, connecting Okokomaiko to Marina. The first two lines of the urban rail project were estimated to cost $1.4bn.

Source:

https://autojosh.com/jakarta-a-city-with-traffic-similarities-as-lagos-launches-its-first-subway-system-photos/

nice, am not sure there is a subway in the whole Subsaharan Africa. oh there is one Subway in benin where boys normally smoke Weed

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Every country making strides. Nigeria is busy dragging tribal dominion and regional ineptitude. If it smells like sh!t, it normally is sh!t

NICE ONE.

Na only looting our leaders know how to do...No good news come out of Nigeria..only thing making youths happy is football and beer...Instead to revolt and put an end to the looting that has crippled the whole economy from top to bottom which is caused by this leaderswe areblaming yahoo yahoo boys for your calamity as if na yahoo boys destroy economy for you...

Your Dino melaye deh flaunt G wagons and Mclarens..u know his house u no go suicide bomb am..Na person weh no want make hunger kill am for house u deh rant on...

Men and women soppose roam around the street looking for jobs for 10 years and go back hom on an empty stomach ni.

Awon oloshi....Eni te bi ma pa ku lenwa.

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Masun

KendrickAyomide:
nice, am not sure there is a subway in the whole Subsaharan Africa. oh there is one Subway in benin where boys normally smoke Weed

at least we have a subway.....

Nice one

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Gudt 4 d indonesians...

The day Lagos government cough out about building a subway,ehhh lagosians should be ready to hear 5 billion dollars.

How does this news affect new minimum wages?

The only

Hope they get Nigeria working.

It will be unrealistic in lagos

The only thing lagos needs. Intracity train.

AdaNri1:
Every country making strides. Nigeria is busy dragging tribal dominion and regional ineptitude. If it smells like sh!t, it normally is sh!t

Are you not part of tribal bigot on nairaland ?

Failed generation

Bizibi:
The day Lagos government cough out about building a subway,ehhh lagosians should be ready to hear 5 billion dollars.

and Lagos state political Godfather will corner $1B of the proposed sum.it is a must otherwise the governor will not return for 2nd term. Nigeria and Corruption are twins

...... and you think traffic in Lagos is not maddy than this Jakarta own so?

think am twice ooo

Nigeria wept.

waiting for Nigeria subway

That is a city that has foresight and absorbs the plight of her people at Heart.

Can same be said about my country? definitely not, here we have cities where the governors see themselves as mini-presidents and Demi-gods.

Where a proxy will dictate the kind of infrastructure he wants in the city and the pace of its development.


Me I'm tired ooo, looking for asylum in any country biko, won't even mind South Sudan *tears in my eyes*

Ambode first governor with no sense.

Humility017:


and Lagos state political Godfather will corner $1B of the proposed sum.it is a must otherwise the governor will not return for 2nd term. Nigeria and Corruption are twins

the Governor must be mad to give the owner of Lagos 1b dollars, the Governor won't complete his first term.

KendrickAyomide:
nice, am not sure there is a subway in the whole Subsaharan Africa. oh there is one Subway in benin where boys normally smoke Weed

where in Benin?

Hmm.

better than lagos by far

Bizibi:
the Governor must be mad to give the owner of Lagos 1b dollars, the Governor won't complete his first term.

jagaban is the one that will tell the governor how to share the money seff

well that is strange

Edodefender:
jagaban is the one that will tell the governor how to share the money seff

woe betide any Governor that trick Lagos king of his right on that day.the Governor's predicament will be 10 times worse than ambode's own.

2.6 billion? it will never be well with whoever that did this to Nigeria

Unless my eyes are deceiving me,but I am seeing 16km and a planned additional 8km subway in 2024!
It's like moving from Ikoyi to VI and to AJAH,or From Oshodi to Bolade.This is what Indonesia is celebrating achieving in 2019 when it's neighbours are building 100km -300km superfastrails.
What is there to celebrate in that!!