Another toll road network planned after JORR
Another toll road network planned after JORR
Novan Iman Santosa, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta
The Ministry of Settlement and Regional Infrastructure is
discussing the construction a new toll road connecting the
satellite cities surrounding Jakarta with the relevant regency
and municipal governments before deciding on the expressway's
precise path.
The director of the Toll Road Division at the ministry's
Directorate General of Regional Infrastructure, Rachmat Effendi,
told The Jakarta Post on Tuesday that the plan had actually been
mooted before the financial crisis hit the country in late 1997.
"The idea is to connect Jakarta with other cities and towns in
the Greater Jakarta area, such as Cileungsi, Depok, Parung,
Tangerang and Serpong.
"Now that regional autonomy has been implemented, many local
administrations have asked us to build highway networks in their
jurisdictions," he said.
"We will try to accommodate such requests but will be guided
by whether the proposed toll roads are to connected to the
existing network," he said.
Dubbed the second Jakarta Outer Ring Road (JORR), the planned
highway would connect West Java's Cikarang with Cileungsi, Depok,
Parung and Serpong before terminating in Tangerang, Banten
province, which lies to the west of Jakarta.
The plan also provides for a 50-kilometer section connecting
Cikarang with Tanjung Priok in North Jakarta. The total length is
expected to be more than 150 kilometers.
The first JORR project is currently under construction,
although several sections have been completed and are now
operational. The JORR project is expected to be fully completed
in 2006.
The cost of the planned new turnpike is expected to be not
less than Rp 3 trillion, excluding land acquisition costs.
Each kilometer of the toll road is expected to cost between Rp
23 billion and Rp 27 billion depending on the geological and soil
conditions.
Rachmat, however, admitted that the ministry had yet to decide
on the new toll road's path.
"My office had previously conducted preliminary studies but
the local administrations requested revisions to the plans here
and there."
Meanwhile, one of the Toll Road Division's planners, Bambang
Eko Hargiyanto, said the construction of the new toll road would
have to wait until the Jakarta Outer Ring Road (JORR) toll road
project was completed.
"It would be useless if we built both projects at the same
time as the building of both of them would be inefficient. There
won't be enough traffic for both projects.
"We need at least 20,000 vehicles each day to reach the
minimum feasibility level," he told the Post.
But Bambang said that in general road traffic in Indonesia was
growing steadily.