Reasons For The Increase In City Toll Tariffs: Build And Maintain Conducive Toll Road Investment

The reason for the toll tariff in the city is increasing. (Photo: Antara)

YOGYAKARTA - Most of our people use toll road facilities for smooth travel. However, from the latest news, Jasamarga officially raised the Domestic Toll Rate starting September 22, 2024 at 00.00 WIB. The toll roads that rose include Cawang-Tomang-Pluit and Cawang-Tanjung Priok-East Ancol-Tiga Bridge-Third Bridge/Pluit. The rising rates varied, ranging from Rp500 to Rp1,500. Check out the reasons why the inner city toll rates rose in this article.

Head of the Regional Division of Jasamarga Metropolitan Tollroad Widiyatmiko Nursejati explained that this tariff adjustment coincided with service improvements, including in the fields of transactions, traffic and construction.

"Increasing transaction services include increasing operating substations in order to increase transaction capacity by providing 32 units of mobile reader to speed up transaction time, implementation and development of Single Lane Free Flow (SLFF) transactions, increasing transaction capacity consisting of 19 toll gates with 84 operating substations consisting of 48 automated Toll Substations (GTO) Single and 36 Multi GTOs," he explained.

According to Jasa Marga, toll tariff adjustments have been regulated in Article 48 paragraph (3) of Law (UU) Number 38 of 2004 concerning Roads and Article 68 paragraph (1) of Government Regulation (PP) Number 15 of 2005 concerning Toll Roads with the last amendment to Government Regulation Number 17 of 2021.

Based on these regulations, the evaluation and adjustment of toll rates is applied every two years based on the influence of the inflation rate.

Rating adjustments are needed as a form of certainty of investment returns for Toll Road Business Entities in accordance with business plans, building and maintaining a conducive Toll Road investment climate in Indonesia, and also maintaining and increasing toll road levels of services.

The Jakarta Inner City Toll Road has an important function as a connecting route between government centers, businesses and entertainment. With the implementation of this new tariff, the public is expected to understand and accept any changes. In addition, users are also expected to be able to adjust their travel planning to accommodate new costs.

Jasa Marga implements Dynamic Massage Sign (DMS) installation in access to a number of 1 unit, DMS Mobile as many as 3 units, DMS Toll Gate 16 Units and DMS Lajur as many as 5 units, installation of 1 speed camera and 262 CCTV, as well as maintenance of traffic safety facilities with a total of 22 operational vehicles. fleet.

Below is the tariff adjustment on the Jakarta Inner City Toll Road:

Such is the review of the reason why toll rates in cities go up. With this explanation, the public is expected to be able to prepare themselves for accommodation before using toll road facilities. Visit VOI.id to get other interesting information.