AT each lunch hour Esra Simatupang prefers to stay at her office. The wristwatch retail company employee in the Jalan Jenderal Sudirman area professes to have been reluctant for the past month to have lunch outside the office because outside I cant breathe.

The reason is the widening of the fast lane of Jalan Sudirman-Thamrin, which is being done by removing the boundary between the fast and the slow lane.

The Rp30-billion project, started in early