Bobby Nasution Reveals The 6th Most Congested Medan City In Indonesia, Ready To Fix It With BRT

Candidate for the Mayor of Medan Bobby Nasution (Instagram bobbynst)

MEDAN - Candidate for Mayor of Medan Bobby Nasution paid attention to congestion problems. The congestion which had a negative impact was promised by Bobby, who was paired with Gerindra cadre Aulia Rachman, to be fixed.

“Medan is one of the busiest cities in Indonesia. This problem has had many negative impacts, ranging from disrupting residents' activities to hampering the city's economy, ”said Bobby Nasution, Friday, October 30.

Quoted from the #KolaborMedanBerkah infographic, Bobby shows the 2017 Traffic Scorecard data (Inrix Research Institute), in which Medan City is the 6th most congested city in Indonesia.

Bobby Nasution-Aulia Rachman, candidate pair number 2 in the Medan Pilkada said that one way to overcome congestion in big cities is the implementation of the Transit Oriented Development system, which is to develop the use of mass transportation such as busway / bus rapid transit (BRT).

The Traffic Free Field Program initiated by President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) 's son-in-law was carried out by optimizing traffic management with an intelligent transport system (ITS) in Medan City.

Then carry out the construction and revitalization of BRT mass transportation, construction of motorcycle taxi shelters, realizing 20 thousand CCTVs, digitizing parking and building Transit Oriented Development (TOD).

"We improve the city planning first so that all areas in the city of Medan are integrated and this will certainly unravel congestion," said Bobby Nasution on his Instagram account bobbynst.

Sakasanwira Field Program

Bobby Nasution-Aulia Rachman also initiated the Medan Sakasanwira program, aka One Urban Village, One Entrepreneurship Center. This idea was carried out by setting up a management, management and marketing center in each village.

There are also incentives for MSMEs, the creative economy and the creative community. Bobby Nasution also wants to present Kolabin.id as a medium for developing and marketing MSMEs.

"We are collaborating to build Medan City by increasing the local potential of the community. In order to create jobs, a healthy entrepreneurial climate to improve the quality of human resources, "said Bobby.