Jakarta Car Free Sunday: Everything you need to know about experiencing this massive event. This is the complete guide. Jakarta Car Free Day or ‘car-free Sunday’ has turned into an epic weekly event in the nation’s capital city! If you ask people who are from outside of Indonesia what they have heard about Jakarta, the usual answer is ‘terrible traffic!’ Nobody is going to deny the fact that Jakarta has some traffic issues that the city is trying to overcome. However, with the recent opening of the MRT system, things are looking brighter in Jakarta.  Another really interesting weekly event
  • FundMECFS@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    15 days ago

    How can a city with well over 10 million people have no cars on Sunday?

    How can the city with massive traffic jams have car-free Sunday?

    It sounds weird but that’s what makes car-free Sunday in Jakarta such an interesting event to check out while you are in the city.

    How can Jakarta have no cars on Sunday?

    The first thing that you have to realize when we talk about car-free Sunday is that not all the roads throughout the city become ‘car-free’. 

    Actually, there are designated zones within the city that are completely blocked off to motorcycles and cars. These designated zones are where thousands upon thousands of participants go to experience this event.