A Capital City Without Traffic Jam

I believe every single person totally agree with this writing..

Last Sunday (Sept 20th), was the day we called "Hari Raya Idul Fitri", which is actually the 1st day of Syawal in Arabic Calendar, the glory day after a month of fasting in Ramadhan. Indonesian people have tradition to come to their hometown to meet the elders and having some kind of gathering with relatives (The Muslim celebrate this day by asking for forgiveness to others).

So many people will take advantage of this glory day, not only Muslim but people with other religion might also visit their hometown because government had set almost a week off. It means a week of holiday, who doesn't want to use this chance to do what they can't do during normal working days?

And guess what happen to the capital city since so many people having a week of holiday in their hometown, yes, Jakarta regain its beauty once again.. Can you imagine a capital city without traffic jam??! Beautiful! Since i don't usually visit my hometown i can see a very significant decrease of cars and motorcycles during this holiday. The public transportation still operating, doing their duty, of course it is reduced since not too many passengers will use them. Yeah, beautiful days with only acceptable amount of motor vehicles on the streets of Jakarta. I believe everyone would love to have this kind of traffic condition everyday.


A city without traffic jam.. Who doesn't want it? We all want no traffic jam. This nation is actually lucky to see an example of solution for a severe traffic problem. The solution is actually much more simple than you think: Stop using your private cars!! Use public transportation and your bicycles. This will surely take the traffic jam we all hate away from this lovely city. Too bad, since they are not in Jakarta to see how wonderful Jakarta is in last few days.. They can't see this simple solution of traffic jam.

Most people will be back to Jakarta tomorrow, and in Monday, Jakarta will be the way it used to be.. Traffic jam.. everywhere.. I wish people can see through these last few days, how wonderful a city can be by controlling the number of cars in the street. I wish everyone can rethink about how to commute everyday, start to do some walking, take the public transportation to their office, or use their bicycle to go around, and experience a city with no traffic jam, a city with its beauty..

But I also believe no one agrees with the idea of not using their cars to commute.. XD

No-Sweat Bike-Commuting

After reading some blogs about bike commuting which tell us how to not be soaked by our own sweat, i decided to give it a try, and... quite satisfying result.. hehe..

Want to know how did i do it?

1. The first thing to keep the sweat away is : NO BACKPACK! Seriously, put your bag on the rack.. or if you have no rack, change your backpack with some kind of bag with a concept of messenger bag. So you can easily move your bag to the front of your body without dismounting the bag from your back. When you feel it is about to sweat, you can just move the bag away from your back.
2. Sit in upright position. Adjust your bike so the saddle is lower than the handle bar so you can sit in upright position. With this position you can ride your bike with more relax, and the sweat will of course reduced.
3. And the important thing to keep you out of sweat is..... to slowdown. Come on, stop pushing yourself too hard. Just relax, slowdown, and enjoy the ride. Riding a bike is actually the same with walking, both use your own power. But one you can do with your bike is, coasting. Some people say coasting is a bad habit, okay, somehow i agree, but it is a very useful feature to keep you sweat-less. Or you don't have to do the coasting part, just ride it in a slow to moderate speed. Why so hurry when riding your bike? We all know the joy of riding a bike, so enjoy it.

Those are three main things to commute by bike without sweat i found in some blogs. The first two tips can be done with not much problem i believe. But in Indonesia, it's not easy to slowdown, because we share the lane with motorcycles.. And another issue is our tropical climate. The heat will definitely make you sweat. That's why it is not easy to keep your body out of sweat if we have to go by bike in midday, but still very feasible if we commute in morning time.

Well, i hope the tips will be useful..