The Jakarta city administration mulls the possibility of limiting the number of motorcycles in certain areas during peak hours in order to help settle the city's acute traffic jams.

The plan to limit the number of motorcycles constitutes one of the topics discussed in the assessment for the application of electronic road pricing system.

The idea to limit the number of motorcycles is based on consideration that the growth rate of motorcycles in the city has reached 900 units per day.

The application of road engineering through traffic regulation is based not only on technical factor to settle traffic jam problems, but also on comprehensive approaches linked to socio-economical considerations covered in the city's macro transportation scheme concept.

"I emphasize, for a city as big as Jakarta, transportation development constitutes the main priority in the development agenda. It's not negotiable. At the moment we're in the process of building mass transportation system based on mass rapid transit (MRT) and bus rapid transit (BRT)," Jakarta Governor Fauzi Bowo said aa quoted by kompas.com news portal on Monday.

Fauzi said that he has ordered Jakarta Police Traffic Director and Jakarta Transportation Agency head to order the use of motorcycles, many of which pass through whichever lanes.

There is a possibility that the assessment will also apply free motorcycle hours in certain areas in the city, the governor said.