TRANS SULAWESI RAILWAY PROJECT

[CATEGORY: INFRASTRUCTURE]

For Sulawesi, in addition to the ports and airports, the government was determined to complete the construction of the Trans Sulawesi railway along the 1,772 kilometers of Makassar to Manado in 2018. The project is set out in National Medium term Development Plan 2015-2019.

Railway crossing line capable of reaching speeds up to 200 km/hours, because to the width of the rail 1.435 meters. While railway in Java with a rail width of 1,067 meters, so that in 2015 a maximum speed of 120 km/h.

Railwaye line of Trans Sulawesi directly constructed a double track so that will increase the flow of trains. In addition, the line is not a plot with the highway to minimize accidents with their intersection. Until last January, rail mounted Trans Sulawesi phase 1 already reach 20 kilometers from Barru to Parepare.

Although the funds from the state budget in 2016 minimal, at Rp 250 billion, Trans Sulawesi railway project in South Sulawesi continues to run. Even until May 2016 and then, the line that has been built up to 60 kilometers of the total lines 145.23 kilometers. Targeted, Trans Sulawesi Phase I, which consists of 23 stations, operational from 2018. The work will then touch Pangkep district, Maros and Makassar city.

From Pare Pare, crossed lane towards Mamuju, West Sulawesi, then connected to Palu, Central Sulawesi, and headed to Gorontalo and continued leading to the city of Manado, North Sulawesi. In 2016, for the line of Manado will start the process.

To operate, PT KAI requires 1,144 employees. In March 2016, waves of recruitment has been done in Makassar. In the early phase, KAI receives 179 employees. A total of 70 people for prospective machinist and 109 people for administration.

Besides the labor of the people of Sulawesi, all the carriages and lokomotit made in PT INKA, the sleepers of PT Wijaya Karya and locking rails from PT Pindad. While rail imported from Japan.

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