It has been written about it much. I try sometimes. But I think it must have even seen. The nightmare in this city is the traffic. Such chaos is actually for a European is not inconceivable.
It is not the sheer number of vehicles that make the road to hell here. A variety of factors. There are no public mass transportation such as subway or train. There is only one functioning bus with a separate bus lane, the Transjakarta. Which is indeed very good, fast and quite cheap price (2500, ie about 0.20 €). There are a lot of bus lines with small and medium-sized buses. As the buses are in very poor condition which both traffic safety and driving. The smoke from the exhaust is sometimes so thick that you can not see the bus. The buses are also no relief for the road but one of the biggest problems. There are bus stops that are not generally used. The bus drivers comply with any traffic laws. It is the heart stopped on the street. Second or 3 Series is not unusual. Even in the middle of intersections stops, so that only goes sometimes nothing at all. But the drivers do not interested in the buses. The use of buses is obviously associated with some risk of injury or death. And not just because of the many pickpockets and other thieves.
The next problem is the enormous amount of motorcycle riders. If she had given to the times of ancient Egyptians even had they been counted, undoubtedly, the biblical plagues. You may also well have been the model for the kamikaze. It is driven without regard for their own health. The other much less interested.
Let us turn to another problem, the general behavior. I've watched this now almost 4 months. There seems to be a really only valid traffic rule: Hit the brakes first, as a second drive! It is criss-crossed and stopped. To stand in the thick of traffic in the middle of the road and negotiate the price with a dealer for several minutes is normal. Flashing left turn about 3 tracks from the far right is not normal. Traffic lights are observed according to taste. Is it likely that Green will be in the next few minutes, it runs just already going on sometimes. Is not longer than 1 minute red, which is still considered to be green.
Although there are officially driving on the left that meet a wheel or moped driver is completely normal. This can sometimes even apply to cars. In streets where there is no structural separation of lanes, driving anyway where he has any desire. Then the streets even by dealers who walk between the cars on the road and are used by dealers with their mobile stalls. Quite often block the comfortable step towards the middle of a lane or come in the thick of traffic circulation.
Driving here is a constant struggle of all against all. It is so ruthless that it could almost be described as the war. Thank God I have not even go here. We have round the clock drivers. The best thing that has read and ignores what is happening outside the car in front of him. If one of the constant criss-cross brake and accelerate is not bad, do you manage to read a lot.