Sartika

Traffic In Denpasar Denpasar is the metropolitan city in Bali and also the capital city of Bali. As metropolitan city, Denpasar has many problems such as population, infrastructure, and traffic. Among those problems, traffic is the crucial problem and need to solve soon. Base on data of sanglah general hospital, everyday more than 15 people be carried there because they get an accident on the road around Denpasar and 75% of them is die. it show traffic in Denpasar very bad. Denpasar hasn't good and comfortable public transportation so people in Denpasar drive or ride their vehicle like car, scooter, and other mode transportation by themselves. annually,  number of vehicles are increase that make traffic more crowded. Now, traffic condition in Denpasar is volume of transport more than the capacity of road. it isn't ideal condition for traffic. every morning when people go to work and school, most of main road have traffic jam. Beside that, the same condition is happen in the afternoon when they come back to their home. The bad of traffic condition in Denpasar  is compounded by drivers behavior. Most of drivers can't patient to get forward position although the traffic is very crowded. Sometimes they violet the driving rule, such as :  break through stopped light, ride scooter on the sidewalk,  overtaking  by left way, etc.

media type="youtube" key="uABVRjFNYnU" height="191" width="234" The video show what a crowed traffic on one of Denpasar road. There are scooter, car, and truck on the road. Drivers are driving their car and crossing a crossroad. there are traffic light in crossroad but it's doesn't work so the traffic become more crowded and drivers are going before each other for passing crossroad.