I found your September/October 2005 cover story "Cities of the Future" informative and well done. I believe, however, that some of the information regarding Jakarta, where I lived for several years in the early 1990s, is dated, and in some cases superficial. Jakarta had the "three passengers in one car" policy for vehicles traveling into the inner city during business hours when I was there more than 10 years ago, so it is by no means a "new" program. But I seriously doubt it is any more effective now than it was then. My driver and I would merely pull off the main thruway and for a few rupi-ahs could hire one of the multitudes of ever-present children to be the "third" in our car. As a traffic or pollution control measure it was nearly useless, although it was some help to the impoverished children.
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