Answering Public Hopes, Lampung Provincial Government Ensures All Roads Are Steady

Illustration- Road infrastructure in Lampung Province. (ANTARA/Ruth Intan Sozometa Kanafi)

In order to facilitate community mobility, the Lampung Provincial Government (Pemprov) ensures that all provincial roads in its area are in a stable condition by continuing to make improvements. "The government ensures that all provincial roads are in a stable condition. Because this is our way of responding to the expectations and needs of the community," said Acting Governor of Lampung Samsudin in his statement in Bandarlampung, reported by ANTARA, Saturday, August 10. He said improvements to provincial roads would still be carried out to maintain road stability conditions in his area. "This is certainly part of us in responding to the expectations of the community. I remind all OPD leaders not to let the public wait for new protests to be carried out but to do so, do it faster before the community protestes us have carried out," he continued. He explained that with the condition of the stability of the provincial road which is maintained, he would cut the travel time for the community so as to speed up transportation. "We appreciate that road repairs can be carried out into a steady road, let alone it can save approximately four hours to two hours. Even for kilometers it can be reduced by 40 kilometers more or less," he said.

Additional responses were said by the Head of the Office of Highways and Construction Development (BMBK) of Lampung Province Muhammad Taufiqullah. "In 2023 the condition of the availability of provincial roads is 78.68 percent and there is still 21.33 percent in unsteady conditions," said Muhammad Taufiqullah. with the available budget, it is planned that there will be handling of provincial roads along 51.7 kilometers. "With the assumption of degradation of 4 percent, as well as handling through regional road inpres, so that it can increase stability by 1.1 percent," he said.