This is the most advance Railway system in Indonesia, the Greater Jakarta LRT or commonly known as JABODEBEK LRT.
Greater Jakarta, harboring more than 33 million inhabitants, on which, more than 10 million, are living within Jakarta city-proper. It is estimated, that over 6 million residents surrounding Greater Jakarta, commutes to and from, the city center each working day.
Transport issues have increasingly begun to attract political attention, and it has been foreseen that without a major transportation breakthrough, in few years the city will have complete traffic gridlock. To answer the increasing needs of an efficient public transport system, and to fasten commuters’ mobility. Indonesian Government, enhance its public Transport System.
In railroad network. In addition to KRL commuter line, operating since 1925. In 2017, Soekarno-Hatta Airport Skytrain was built, to served Indonesia’s main gateway Airport. From its Airport’s Integrated Building, to the Airports 3 terminals building. On December of the same year, Soekarno-Hatta Airport Rail Link was open, to link the Cities of Jakarta and Banten, to Indonesian main Airport. While its Mass Rapid transit or MRT system, was introduced in Jakarta in 2019. Its first Mass Rapid transit, the Jakarta MRT was open in March 2019. And running through its 13 stations, with a combine route-length of almost 16 kilometers. Jakarta’s first Light Rail transit, or LRT line was opened in December 2019. The first 5.8-kilometer line, runs through its 6 stations from Pegangsa-an Duwa, to Velodrome. 4 new additional lines, will be built in the future.
While Jakarta’s biggest light rail transit project, is the Greater Jakarta LRT, or commonly known as Jabodebek LRT. The whole LRT system, will consist of 4 Phases. With total investment cost, is estimated to reach 23.8 trillion-rupiah or 1.8 billion US dollars. This under-construction system, will add Jakarta’s Rail network by 43.3 kilometers that runs through its 18 stations, costing 11.9 trillion rupiah or approximately 903.6 million US Dollar.
The construction of the Jabodebek LRT Phase 1, will consists of two lines, Phase 1 A and B. with three routes in total namely the Cawang-Cibubur route, the Cawang-Dukuh Atas route and the Cawang-East Bekasi route. The construction had reached 88.1 percent overall progress rate as of November 2021.
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