Today's Wall Strteet Journal showed a photo of workers installing rebar in pylons for Jakarata's monorail now under construction.
http://jakartamonorail.com/
http://www.answers.com/topic/jakarta-monorail
Sloan
Full Version: Jakarta, Indonesia
Not anymore. 
Too bad too because a monorail's footprint takes up little land. Hard to fathom what kind of mode Indonesia will use to replace monorail....and what to do about civil works already in place.
Sloan
http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2011/09...a-governor.html
Too bad too because a monorail's footprint takes up little land. Hard to fathom what kind of mode Indonesia will use to replace monorail....and what to do about civil works already in place.
Sloan
http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2011/09...a-governor.html
Amazing that the project got so far along that piles were driven. Somebody has some money to burn. Usually all funding sources are identified before a shovel is put in the ground.
From Monorail Society website:
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Indonesia prototype revealed (05/10/13)
Jakarta, Indonesia. A prototype vehicle for the long-delayed Jakarta Monorail has been revealed to the public. The state-owned PT INKA built the prototype in advance of a planned restart of the Jakarta Monorail project. On hand at PT INKA's Madiun Diluncurk, East Java plant was the Minister of State Owned Enterprises, Dahlan Iskan. The track appears to be of a classic Alweg design. Details of the bogie design have not been revealed yet.
Jakarta, Indonesia. A prototype vehicle for the long-delayed Jakarta Monorail has been revealed to the public. The state-owned PT INKA built the prototype in advance of a planned restart of the Jakarta Monorail project. On hand at PT INKA's Madiun Diluncurk, East Java plant was the Minister of State Owned Enterprises, Dahlan Iskan. The track appears to be of a classic Alweg design. Details of the bogie design have not been revealed yet.
See photos of new monorails here:
https://www.kaskus.co.id/post/518782401ed71...ed719a575000007
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