Thursday 23 February 2012

Indonesia to build its longest toll road

Jakarta Globe reports that state toll road operator, Jasa Marga (operator of 531 km of toll roads) is seeking to build a 1,000 km long toll road on Sumatra from Aceh to Lampung across the length of the island. It is estimated to cost $17 billion. 

This comes on top of a series of other announced projects including:
- Medan to Binjai (20 km) 
- Medan to Kuala Namu (and airport) (18 km)
- Pekanbaru to Renggat (202 km)
- Pekanbaru to Dumai (70 km)

This continues Indonesia's practice of building almost all of its intercity highways and many urban motorways as commercially self funding toll roads - an approach that is uncontroversial there, yet considered revolutionary in many developed countries.

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