sighs,
Today I took a walk around Cikapayang bridge (under, that is). Actually, I was on my way back to campus from Annex Building in Tamansari. I had to do some administration stuff there in Annex. But that's not the point though. It was, when I walked under the bridge and around the streets of Tamansari, I didn't feel the atmosphere anymore. As I walked under the highway and several steps towards Annex, I already felt exhausted and sweaty because of the heat of the day caused by the intense ray from the sun, and of course those thick dust and smog coming out from cars as the street at that time was on a traffic jam.
Why? It's Bandung. The city isn't like it used to anymore. I mean, ten years ago when I lived in Cimahi -and several years after when it was my early year of living in Cirebon- Bandung was so nice. The image I got from Bandung was some big green trees in each side of the road with shades covering us from the heat of the sun. Now, you can only find that kind of atmosphere mostly in residential areas whereas commercial districts are now stuffed with shops and buildings.
When I was living in Cirebon, I always couldn't wait to go back to Bandung (although right now I still do) since everytime I went there, each time I came out from Pasteur, there were those bunch of big palm trees. I've always been amazed by those trees. But where are they now? All I could see was just some billboards and that fly-over highway.
Indeed that this kind of thing (development) is inevitable. It may be good for the city that it actually developed with its rapid growing of infrastructure. But it has changed the image of Bandung itself where it used to be a green, cool, and fresh place into some not-another-Jakarta kind of city. It seems that the development of the city only concentrating itself on commercial sectors and to some point, industrial sectors. I just felt that, Bandung isn't suited anymore for walking pleasure. You'd be needing at least a motorcycle to enjoy strolling around roads in the city.
Today I took a walk around Cikapayang bridge (under, that is). Actually, I was on my way back to campus from Annex Building in Tamansari. I had to do some administration stuff there in Annex. But that's not the point though. It was, when I walked under the bridge and around the streets of Tamansari, I didn't feel the atmosphere anymore. As I walked under the highway and several steps towards Annex, I already felt exhausted and sweaty because of the heat of the day caused by the intense ray from the sun, and of course those thick dust and smog coming out from cars as the street at that time was on a traffic jam.
Why? It's Bandung. The city isn't like it used to anymore. I mean, ten years ago when I lived in Cimahi -and several years after when it was my early year of living in Cirebon- Bandung was so nice. The image I got from Bandung was some big green trees in each side of the road with shades covering us from the heat of the sun. Now, you can only find that kind of atmosphere mostly in residential areas whereas commercial districts are now stuffed with shops and buildings.
When I was living in Cirebon, I always couldn't wait to go back to Bandung (although right now I still do) since everytime I went there, each time I came out from Pasteur, there were those bunch of big palm trees. I've always been amazed by those trees. But where are they now? All I could see was just some billboards and that fly-over highway.
Indeed that this kind of thing (development) is inevitable. It may be good for the city that it actually developed with its rapid growing of infrastructure. But it has changed the image of Bandung itself where it used to be a green, cool, and fresh place into some not-another-Jakarta kind of city. It seems that the development of the city only concentrating itself on commercial sectors and to some point, industrial sectors. I just felt that, Bandung isn't suited anymore for walking pleasure. You'd be needing at least a motorcycle to enjoy strolling around roads in the city.
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