Nasty Traffic in Jakarta
How much time have we all wasted sitting idly in traffic in Jakarta? Time that we can use to generate more revenues for our companies, time we can use to spend with our families, time we can use to grow this nation? Instead we are spending more and more time within the confines of our car looking at the same sceneries every single day going back and forth to our offices.
On several occasions, my driver has asked other drivers about how long on average their travel times are to and from the office. On average for people going into the sudirman area it takes about 2 hours one way. If they start going at 9 o’clock i n the morning, they’ll arrive at the office at 11. With that long of a travel time, they could already be in Bandung.
If say you consider that you spend 2 hours going into the city and about 1.5 hours going back, that’s 3.5 hours per day. Say you work 5 days a week, in one month you’d already be spending 17.5 hours in traffic. In a year you’d end up wasting around 210 hours. That’s roughly equal to 26 days of work days, or about one month worth of work time.
Imagine that ! Out of the 12 months that you go to work, you actually spend one month sitting in traffic. Can you think of other more useful ways of spending one month worth of your time ?
December 12th, 2007 at 11:16 am
Dien,
Your view is the same with me of how NASTY the traffic in Jakarta. Please visit to my blog at http://dutanada.blogspot.com.
The Traffic Jam will indeed NOT only decrease productivity, but also create Work Stress and Bloated Fuel Costs.
Nice Blogs….