Medan, Led By Bobby Nasution, Becomes A Pilot Project For Urban Transportation Management

MEDAN - The city of Medan, North Sumatra, was chosen as a pilot project for urban transportation arrangement, because the city government is considered to have commitment, fiscal and financial capacity.

"Finally, two metropolitan cities were selected that really met the criteria, namely Medan and Greater Bandung," explained the Director General of Land Transportation of the Ministry of Transportation, Budi Setiyadi in Medan, quoted by Antara, Friday, October 29.

The choice of Medan City, according to him, is the result of the central government's policy to organize cities in Indonesia, and to refer to the metropolitan city as a pilot project.

Director of Road Traffic of the Directorate of Land Transportation, Suharto, explained that this program was initiated by the creation of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) indicating the initial commitment of the regional government and the central government.

"After the MoU, we will carry out a review of the Detail Engineering Design and Feasibility Study, and we will implement it in 2022. We hope that in the medium of 2022 the construction process will begin, or no later than early 2023 until 2025," he said.

The infrastructure development, he continued, includes, among others, corridor stops and bus lanes. "We will build it like a factory with an information transport system. We will build a kind of pool or a place to store buses," said Suharto.

The Mayor of Medan, Bobby Nasution, expressed his gratitude for making Medan City a pilot project for the urban transportation arrangement program. "This is indeed what we have been waiting for," said Bobby Nasution.

The Mayor of Medan said that this program would encourage people in this area to switch from using private transportation to using public transportation.

"Good and quality public transportation facilities will certainly make people more happy to switch to public transportation," said Bobby Nasution.