Tuesday 2 April 2013

26.0 Jakarta Flooding and Traffic Jam - Related Solutions?

The major infrastructure problems of Jakarta of flooding and traffic jam, is it possible that there exists a solution that could at least partially solve both issues?  In recent times, major flooding happens at least once every 5 years due to a number of reasons of which distruption of the main water ways is one of them.   While traffic jam as we all know is a daily occurance.  So certainly the 2 big probelms of Jakarta are of top priority and are important enough to consider a long term solution that may take 10 years or so to execute but would be a real light at the end of the tunnel with additonal positive impacts.

THESIS

Widen and deepen the full length of the Ciliwung river from Bogor to the Java Sea, clean up the water, make it an attractive feature that becomes a prime living location that patially solves the flooding issue and is then used for Public Mass Transit in the form of River Boats. 



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