August Dig Date for Jakarta MRT — Six Months Ahead of Schedule
Jakarta. Mass Rapid Transit Jakarta, the company responsible for constructing the city's Mass Rapid Transit system, said on Thursday that a tunnel boring machine had arrived at Tanjung Priok port from Japan — six months ahead of schedule.
The arrival will allow construction of Jakarta's MRT system to start in August.
Dono Boestami, the president director of MRT Jakarta, said the Japanese manufacturer was able to finish the machine faster than initially planned.
“We are completing administrative documents at the port so that it can be deployed as soon as possible at the construction site,” Dono said on Thursday.
The boring machine is the first of four scheduled to arrive by the end of this year.
The MRT will be the first of its kind in Indonesia and the government is eager to have the system functioning by the Asian Games in August 2018.
The construction will connect Lebak Bulus in South Jakarta to Bunderan Hotel Indonesia traffic circle in Central Jakarta with 16 kilometers of elevated and underground tracks.
The second stage of the MRT project will stretch 8 kilometers from the traffic circle to Kampung Bandan in North Jakarta and is set for completion by 2020.
Another MRT track to connect east and west Jakarta is undergoing a feasibility study and the government hopes to start its operation by 2027.
The Jakarta government, which controls MRT Jakarta, and Japanese investors have provided funding for the MRT construction.
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