More damage to Cipularang turnpike

Tue, 13 Dec 2005, 00:00 WIB | Source: JP

BANDUNG: A landslide has damaged a section of the turnpike
connecting Bandung and Jakarta, less than two weeks after another
part of the road subsided.

An employee of state toll road operator PT Jasa Marga,
Haryadi, said on Monday heavy downpour on Sunday caused the
embankment at the section to slide. But road workers had cleared
the rubble away by Monday morning, so as not to cause a traffic
jam.

The road operator has conducted regular checks on the 41.3-
kilometer-long turnpike after a section in Sukatani district
subsided on Nov. 29, causing a big hole which reached eight
meters in width and four meters in depth. -- JP

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