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Soekarno-Hatta railway to operate by 2017
On site: President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo inspects the airport railway project, along with Transportation Minister Ignasius Jonan, Agrarian and Spatial Planning Minister Ferry Mursyidan Baldan and Presidential Chief of Staff Teten Masduki
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On site: President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo inspects the airport railway project, along with Transportation Minister Ignasius Jonan, Agrarian and Spatial Planning Minister Ferry Mursyidan Baldan and Presidential Chief of Staff Teten Masduki. (thejakartapost.com) (thejakartapost.com)
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span class="inline inline-center">On site: President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo inspects the airport railway project, along with Transportation Minister Ignasius Jonan, Agrarian and Spatial Planning Minister Ferry Mursyidan Baldan and Presidential Chief of Staff Teten Masduki. (thejakartapost.com)
Jakarta will soon see the operation of the long-awaited railway connecting Manggarai Station in Central Jakarta to Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in Tangerang, Banten, President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo said on Monday, with the last 12 kilometers of track expected to be completed in early 2017.
Jokowi said the government had invested Rp. 2.5 trillion (US$177.4 million) in the project, which started in 2015.
"This is a solution for the chronic city-to-airport traffic congestion," Jokowi said when inspecting the 30-km railway project.
According to Jokowi, people will be able to travel between Manggarai and Soekarno-Hatta in 40 minutes with the new railway, which in turn will ease traffic congestion from the city to the airport.
Jokowi added that in the long-run, all densely populated cities in
Indonesia should have such railways that connected their cities and
airports.
"A city and its airport should be connected by mass-transportation, such
as Palembang [in South Sumatra], Surabaya [in East Java], Padang [in
West Sumatra] and Yogyakarta," Jokowi said.
