what is up everybody I am on the side of this busy busy road for one reason today and that is this
I am going to explore the MRT in here in Jakarta for the very first time I've been
trying to follow some advice from our followers and our subscribers of things
here to do in Jakarta and this has come up a lot so I'm going to go down here now down
the dungeon and we're going to experience the MRT for the very first time let's go
so the first thing you have to do is scan and just check in with Pele Linguini or
whatever it's called belly Linguini and then put it back through and then
here you go can anyone please sound like actually say this word it's
actually a really convenient station look there's a Starbucks here on everything
delicious okay here's the ticket machine I'm gonna try and master this purchase so I figure English
and then multi-trip ticket please select ticket quantity and then balance amount
what ticket quantity and what balance amount do I need uh yeah I'm trying to
get to the scvd yes CBD yeah is this going to be enough 75
so this is really good right now I've clearly been struggling for a moment and within a minute
take my money gosh fast magic
thank you have a nice day well I'm taking that as a success one ticket I've got no
idea how long this will last week but I even know where I'm going let's check in
foreign
so I'm gonna get ah that must be me here so I'm here and I'm going one two three four stops to
his store and mandiri so one good tip that I would give you is to use Google Maps to try and help you
organize yourself my top tip today use Google Maps to help you with this but I think my train is here
so I'm gonna get on
but I guess that I'm at the start of the line here and that's why it's
empty imagine if you get busier as the train goes through the tracks stations
hello I'm not alone
first observation is how quiet it is
super clean look how clean this is it's like everything in Jakarta is like super clean I
feel like Singapore has this reputation of being like the uh the cleanest city
I think Jakarta would give it a run for its money I feel like people from Jakarta
they came to London or New York they'd be horrified of the state of the uh the Metro
foreign
T actually stands for Mass rapid transport and this is like a reaction to jakarta's
population and a transport problem it was actually not open too long ago in
March 2019 and the idea is that we're trying to try and promote people using
public transport rather than cars or taxis bikes and things which will just
cause chaos on the roads in Jakarta for so long but as I can tell you right now
it's not really working there's no ones on it foreign
communication between passengers or by phone we apologize for any inconvenience
I did not know that
well that was actually quite a short ride I was only on there for maybe 10 minutes and traveled
quite a big distance through the city so really an efficient way of traveling through the city
Lane because in the car that would have taken a lot longer that was a really good experience I
think that was uh really seamless really clean like everything in Jakarta really modern but
yeah it looks brand new looks absolutely brand new I'm really impressed I like all these glass
doors that they have at this at the front as well to stop people from uh falling onto the tracks
or anything like that okay let's see how uh how accurate they are with their times if you can see
it there it is but it's going in this room here there's one minute to Quarter Two and the train is
due at quarter two so I've got one minute walk oh look at that it's just clicked on what have we got
well I think you'd call that perfect timing uh it did just occur to me I wonder how many people use
this on a daily basis because it really does seem quiet so I just Googled it and apparently
around 40 000 people use the MRT every single day which is actually a relatively small number
considering the amount of people that live here like I say 10 million people in the Jakarta area
alone and then another four million that use the uh transport to get into Jakarta so 14 000 a day
is actually really small I'd be curious to learn how many is in like London or Jakarta sorry or New
York I'm gonna try and find out that and then put the numbers on the screen now uh but yeah
I can see well I've never seen this before is queue of people waiting to use this grab
machine you know the ones in the arcade with the grabby claw literally there's a queue
of people waiting to use it so let's go and see what you could win this must be amazing
is it free yeah oh it's free
yes come on which one's the easiest
so it's quite quick here ready
that's got my name all over
here
foreign
we want t-shirts we've had a great time but that is the end of my first MRT experience
pretty good would recommend high five thumbs up high five whichever bye