Publication Date:
Tue, 2011-09-20 18:14
Municipal spokesman Cucu Achmad Kurnia said Tuesday that officials had failed to find investors for the $630 million venture.
Construction of the monorail began in 2004, with huge concrete pillars dotting the city, and was supposed to be completed by 2007.
But no work has been done on it for years.
Jakarta, a sprawling smog-filled city of 11 million people, has some of Asia’s worst traffic.
The monorail project, which was to have two lines totaling nearly 17 miles (27 kilometers), had long been touted as the best solution.
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