Hit the Brakes on Car-Centric Cities | Alfred Sitorus | TEDxJakarta

Have you ever gotten yourself to a point of stress or discomfort whenever you hit the road in your vehicle riding through the city, especially during peak hours? In Jakarta, this feeling is not only experienced by motorists, but also pedestrians trying to escape the chaos to the less than ample sidewalks. Even then, they often become the victim of endangering activities of people in their vehicles, such as motorcycles to avoid traffic, as well as street vendors. Alfred Sitorus, an avid cyclist, humanist, commuter, and one of the founders & initiators of the Jakarta Pedestrian Coalition, will discuss his efforts to protect the home of the pedestrians and avoid its misuse, the sidewalk. Alfred and his peers founded the coalition back in 2011, which arises from the question of ‘who does the sidewalk actually belong to?’. Ever since, the coalition has set their goals as to return the sidewalks to its rightful owners.

This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx Alfred Sitorus is an avid cyclist, a humanist, commuter and is one of the founders & initiators of the Jakarta Pedestrian Coalition. As with their name, they are a small but fierce group that are always fighting for the rights of all pedestrians in Indonesia. Alfred along with a couple of his peers and fellow pedestrians founded the coalition in 2011, which arises from the question of ‘who does the sidewalk actually belong to?’ when at the time, it was very common to see motorcycles and street vendors using the sidewalk and endangering pedestrians using it. Ever since, the coalition has set their goal as to return the sidewalks to its rightful owners. To achieve this, Alfred alongside the coalition has various campaigns from guerilla ‘sidewalk sightseeing’ campaigns to raise awareness, supporting for the advent of National Pedestrian Day to emphasize the importance of pedestrian safety to social audits which will uphold the standard of quality of the public facilities built by the government. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

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