City to keep to minimum toll road entry, exit gates<\/p>\n
Damar Harsanto, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta<\/p>\n
To prevent even worse traffic chaos along the trajectories of a
\nnumber of planned new inner-city toll roads, the Jakarta
\nadministration says it intends to keep the number of entry and
\nexit points to the roads to a minimum.<\/p>\n
\"The idea of expressways is that they should be free of
\nobstructions from point A to point B. That's why we have to
\nreduce the number of entry and exit points. This is based on our
\nexperience with existing toll roads, where long lines of vehicles
\nat the gates are common,\" Jakarta Deputy Governor Fauzi Bowo said
\nover the weekend.<\/p>\n
He added that the expressway projects would also involve the
\nconstruction of alternative roads for public transportation and
\nthose who did not want to pay tolls.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Hari Sandjojo, the development affairs assistant to
\nthe city secretary, said that the administration would prioritize
\nthe construction of toll roads from Bekasi to Kampung Melayu in
\nEast Jakarta and from Kampung Melayu to Kemayoran in Central
\nJakarta early next year.<\/p>\n
The 14.36-kilometer Bekasi-Kampung Melayu route will cost Rp
\n3.6 trillion, while the nine-kilometer expressway from Kampung
\nMelayu to Kemayoran will cost Rp 2.7 trillion.<\/p>\n
\"PT Jakarta Propertindo is preparing a feasibility study for
\nthe projects to see whether they are in line with the city's
\nmaster plan on transportation, and whether they make economic
\nsense,\" he added.<\/p>\n
PT Jakarta Propertindo, which first suggested the projects,
\nhas been appointed as the main developer. It is expected that the
\nnew roads will be mostly elevated.<\/p>\n
The administration said that it was confident the projects
\nwould be attractive to investors as they promised an internal
\nrate of return (IRR) of 17.5 percent per annum.<\/p>\n
Currently, interest on bank loans for infrastructure projects
\nranges between 12 percent and 17 percent.<\/p>\n
According to Hari, the administration was now awaiting a
\nresponse from the central government to the request it had made
\nto be permitted to build and manage the toll roads as under the
\nlegislation as it stands at the moment, the authority to develop
\ntoll roads is vested in the Ministry of Public Works.<\/p>\n
The developer's president director, IGKG Suena, told The
\nJakarta Post that his company would start construction work in
\nMarch next year if all the necessary approvals were obtained.<\/p>\n
A total of six new expressways are envisaged at a cost of Rp
\n23 trillion, or Rp 270 billion per kilometer, and they will be
\nconstructed in seven stages. It is hoped that all the projects
\nwill be completed by 2009.<\/p>\n
The administration has said that traffic in the capital would
\nend up in complete gridlock by 2014 should steps not be taken
\nimmediately to solve the problem.<\/p>\n
Governor Sutiyoso has blamed an average annual 8 percent
\ngrowth in new cars as the cause of the worsening traffic chaos.<\/p>\n
However, his administration has done little to date to curb
\nthe rapid increase in vehicle ownership.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the police have suggested the imposing of a ban on
\nolder vehicles in the city.<\/p>\n
Currently, Jakarta's roads, which extend to 7,634 kilometers
\nin length, must accommodate 6.4 million vehicles. This figure
\ndoes not include out-of-town vehicles entering the capital.
\nExperts says the city's roads are only capable of accommodating
\n3.5 million vehicles.<\/p>",
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