JAKARTA - DKI Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan has begun to aggressively persuade the public to use bicycles as a means of transportation. Not only providing bicycle lanes, non-folding bicycle facilities can enter MRT stations and trains, Anies took another step.
In commemoration of World Bike Day and PNJK 2021 Kick Off, Anies asked every company in the capital to provide incentives for their employees who go to the office riding bicycles.
"What we want to encourage is that we hope that every office company will provide incentives for those who ride bicycles," said Anies on Friday, June 4.
According to Anies, the incentives that can be given are insurance premium subsidies to facilitate activities in the office, to bicycle credit incentives.
"So, we have a common interest to make residents healthier, the city cleaner, and later we will feel the atmosphere of an urban city which is generally healthier," said Anies.
To employees who feel they cannot use bicycles on their way home and to work, Anies suggested they use bicycles for short distance activities. The bicycle can be placed in an office environment.
"Prepare a bicycle to go to lunch, ride a bicycle. Go to a nearby meeting, ride a bicycle. Short distance activities, use a bicycle. So, even if you can't ride a bicycle to the office, at least there is a bicycle in the office to come to the meeting." meeting. That way, we can really use bicycles as a means of transportation," he explained.
In addition, Anies asked the building managers in DKI to have an obligation to provide bicycle parking spaces of at least 10 percent of the available parking spaces specifically for bicycles.
"We also recommend that a place to rinse be prepared. Thus, making it easier for workers who choose to go to work using the bicycle, there is comfort because they arrive there are parking facilities and other support," he said.
Anies also has a plan to continue working on a 101-kilometer bicycle path until the end of 2021. The current total bicycle lane is 63 kilometers. Anies hopes that the capital city will have a bicycle lane with a total length of 170 kilometers by the end of this year.
Not only ordinary bicycles, Anies also plans to create a special lane for road bike cyclists on Jalan Jenderal Sudirman to MH Thamrin. Previously, DKI had also tested the road bike route at the Kampung Melayu-Tanah Abang JLNT on Saturday-Sunday.
Later, the racing cyclists will get a special lane every Monday to Friday morning at Sudirman-Thamrin, starting at 05.30 WIB to 06.30 WIB. Other cyclists are not allowed to cross and can only pass through the permanent bicycle lane on the left side of the road.
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