Airport Back to Normal
February 5th, 2008 | by Admin |Early Monday morning Traffic on the toll road between Jakarta and Soekarno-Hatta International Airport returned to normal. Jasa marga opened access to all kinds of vehicles at 5 a.m. on the morning. At noon, Jasa Marga started charging the toll.
The Sedyatmo tollway, the main access route from the capital to the airport, had been closed since Friday due to floods, especially along kilometer 26 in Kamal, North Jakarta.
Monday morning part of the road was still flooded with about 15 centimeters of water but that this was not enough to disrupt traffic.
Jasa Marga would start adding new lanes from kilometer 24 to 27 of Sedyatmo toll road next month. They expect the construction to start in March this year. It is scheduled to finish in a year and it is estimated to cost Rp 260 billion (US$ 26 million).
In November, a high tide cut off the airport toll road. The operator now has 14 pumps to deal with flooding, but during Friday’s flood, the water came from both the north and south and was too much for the pumps to handle.
The closure of the airport toll road and the delays of more than 200 flights between Friday and Sunday cost airport operator PT Angkasa Pura II Rp 5.3 billion.
