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Cars · by Tola Ibrahim · 2026-10-01

Sometimes the ordinary view is enough in Jakarta

Sometimes the ordinary view is enough in Jakarta

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Amelia Hughes · 24 likes

I am skeptical. The idea sounds good, but the maintenance cost is real. A little friction removed goes a long way

Urban Noodle · 3 likes

Big fan of this approach. I noticed the same thing in Warsaw

Aarav Sharma · 1 likes

helpful correction

Midnight Otter · 1 likes

Totally agree, especially for beginners

Minji Kim · 0 likes

anecdote beats theory here

Urban Noodle · 1 likes

good clarification — I read it differently at first

Ananya Rao · 2 likes

what happened after the first week? I am curious whether sometimes stayed easy. I keep a note about classics for exactly this reason

Midnight Runner · 1 likes

Fair point but I had the opposite experience

Rapid Comet · 0 likes

the context helps. Without it I would have assumed the opposite. I learned that one the expensive way