Semarang-Demak Toll Project Immediately Begins, Police Trial To Close Kaligawe Toll Bridge Semarang

Officers installed a road divider heading under the Kaligawe Toll bridge, Semarang City, Thursday. ANTARA/IC Senjaya.

JATENG - The police have begun to conduct a traffic engineering trial around the Kaligawe Toll bridge, Semarang City, today Thursday, June 8.

Head of Traffic for Semarang Polrestabes AKBP Yunaldi said the trial from June 8 to 10, 2023 followed the start of a series of construction of the Semarang-Demak toll road project which is part of the construction of the Kaligawe toll bridge.

"The traffic flow engineering, especially vehicles from the direction of Demak heading to Semarang," he said in Semarang, June 8, was confiscated by Antara.

Traffic engineering carried out, he continued, included diverting vehicles from the direction of Demak which will go to Semarang to enter the toll road to turn back to the main road.

"The motorbike from the direction of Demak going to Semarang is also directed to enter the toll road to turn around," he said.

In addition, he said, large vehicles from the direction of Jalan Arteri Yos Sudarso who will enter the toll road are asked to enter through the Krapyak toll gate.

The three-day trial, according to him, will be evaluated before it is officially enforced starting June 11.

"If it runs smoothly, on June 11, construction will begin," he said.

According to him, the elevation of the Kaligawe Toll Road bridge which will be connected to the Semarang-Demak toll road will take about six months to work.

He estimates that traffic engineering around the Kaligawe Toll bridge will be carried out until the process is complete in December 2023.

"In general, until it is connected to the Semarang-Demak toll road, it will be completed next year," he said.