Jakarta – As the increase in the number of roads is not corresponding with the increase in the number of cars, by 2014, some cars might never make it to the open road, a survey on the city's land transportation showed Saturday.

Head of the Transportation Ministry's land transportation directorate Sugihardjo said roads were being constructed at a rate of less than 1 percent a year. This slight addition could not accommodate the rapid growth of the car population in Jakarta, Detik.com reported.

"There will be a traffic standstill. People will buy new cars but there will be nowhere to drive them," Sugihardjo told a seminar on transportation comfort in Jakarta on Saturday.

Sugihardjo said that by 2014 there would be an estimated three million cars on 45 million square meters of road every day. Today, 600,000 cars are on city streets daily.

"To address this problem, if there is a limited budget to build new roads, then people must use public transportation, like the busway, to save fuel and to reduce traffic congestion," he said.