Expanding Bojonggede Skybridge, Bogor Regency Government Needs To Free More Residents' Land

Acting Head of BPTJ Suharto (right) together with the relevant agencies while inspecting Skybridge Bojonggede, Bogor Regency, West Java. (Doc. ANTARA/HO-Humas BPTJ)

JAKARTA - The Jabodetabek Transportation Management Agency (BPTJ) plans to add the Bojonggede Skybridge track, Bogor Regency, to the Jakarta platform. To realize this plan, the Depok city government (city government) needs support related to land acquisition.

Director of Infrastructure for BPTJ, Zamrides said the expansion of the Skybridge was an effort to shorten passenger travel at Bojonggede Station. The reason is, to get to Jakarta at this time, passengers must cross the underpass quite far from the hall entrance skybridge.

He said the transfer was enough to take time for travel, so shortcuts were needed to facilitate passenger mobility. He said, this year his party immediately prepared detailed engineering design (DED) and continued with land acquisition from affected residents.

"We need to make initial preparations before the Bojonggede skybridge is extended to the platform leading to Jakarta. This is our effort to shorten the travel time of commuter users in Bojonggede. We will discuss the underpass with PT KCI as well as what is the good," he said in an official statement, Saturday, February 3.

Need To Free 300 Square Meters Of Citizens' Land

Head of the Bogor Regency Transportation Agency, Agus Ridallah, said that to realize the plan to extend the Skybridge, of course there will be land owned by affected residents. The Bogor Regency Government, he said, is ready to support the efforts of the central government in terms of land availability.

"The plan for land acquisition of approximately 300 square meters will be carried out as soon as possible, we are waiting for several definite calculations from the BPTJ of the Ministry of Transportation regarding land needs that need to be acquired later through the DED which will be compiled this year," Agus explained.

For your information, Skybridge Bojonggede, which was inaugurated on December 9, 2023 by the Minister of Transportation with the Regent of Bogor, and the Mayor of Bogor, has a length of 243 meters.

Unlike the skybridge in Jakarta, this skybridge tends to have a distance that is not too far away. Some examples include Skybridge Tanah Abang with a length of 386.4 meters, Skybridge Velodrome 500 meters, Skybridge Lebak Bulus 307.5 meters, and Skybridge Velbak 450 meters.

Skybridge Bojonggede is an integration facility built by the BPTJ of the Ministry of Transportation for approximately 2 years. The purpose of building a skybridge is to connect Bojonggede Station with Bojonggede Terminal so that it can reduce congestion in the station exit area and provide comfort to commuter line passengers.