Macet (traffic) is really the understatement of the century. Imagine leaving Bali (pic above) and coming back to mayhem. We didn't really want to leave Bali, it took alot for us, truly. We decided to come back to Jakarta at 6pm thinking that we would at least beat a bit of the Monday night traffic - but we were so wrong...on so many levels.
Terrible traffic to last into late evening
The Jakarta Post | Mon, 10/25/2010
Hectic traffic conditions in Jakarta, following three hours of heavy rains, will likely last well into Monday evening, a Jakarta Police Traffic Management Center officer says.
First Insp. Kasno told tempointeraktif.com that the traffic would begin to ease between 10 and 11 p.m., considering the massive queues of vehicles heading toward Depok, Bekasi and Tangerang.
The police said the worst traffic snarls were on Jl. Thamrin and Jl. Sudirman, the Senayan traffic circle, Jl. Latuharhari, Palmerah junction, Jl. Rasuna Said, Jl. Senopati, Blok O and Dharmawangsa.
The heavy rains caused a number of rivers in Jakarta to flood, inundating several major streets and felling a number of trees, bringing rush hour traffic to a standstill.
So we were in the taxi for roughly a little over four hours...on a ride that would normally take 35 minutes. There was one stage where we were on the toll and not moving for a good hour. It was painful, we felt bad for our taxi driver. He just got to the airport and we were his first customer, so basically his whole shift was just us. We asked what he would do after dropping us off (as he is expected to go back to the airport and pick up more passengers) and he told us that he was going to just sleep.
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