Bike To School

Syahrul Effendi, South Jakarta mayor, promote students from state high school SMA 6 to use bicycles from their homes to school. He also campaign on Sunday with SMA 6 students to rode from their school on Jln. Mahakam, passing through Senayan and ended at Central Jakarta on Hotel Indonesia traffic circle.

If the distance between students homes and school was less than 3 kilometers, Syahrul Effendi said residents should use bike as transportation. He has been done it with SMA 6 and Lab School students, so he encourage the use of bicycles to all schools at South Jakarta.

Nowadays, cycling to work or school has become the choice for many peoples. It is happened because of the bad traffic congestion. A Cycling Community Bike to Work in Jakarta has successfully pushed more than 5,000 peoples in greater Jakarta to leave their vehicles and use bicycle to work.