House approves toll rate hike: The House of Representatives (DPR)

House approves toll rate hike: The House of Representatives (DPR)
endorsed a proposal on Wednesday from Minister of Settlement and
Regional Infrastructure Soenarno for a 25 percent increase in
toll rates. The House's special team to deliberate the toll rate
suggested that the toll hike should not apply to public transport
vehicles or to vehicles passing through toll roads that were
already enjoying a profit such as Jagorawi and Sedyatmo toll
roads. In addition, the House also asked the government to
declare the one-kilometer toll road over Citarum river on the
main road from Jakarta to Bandung a public road. The House also
asked toll operators to build flyovers to overcome traffic jams
in certain segments of the toll roads in Jakarta and to allow
heavy vehicles to pass through toll roads only after 9 p.m. --
Antara