Manado-Bitung Toll Road is a

toll road A toll road, also known as a turnpike or tollway, is a public or private road for which a fee (or ''Toll (fee), toll'') is assessed for passage. It is a form of road pricing typically implemented to help recoup the costs of road construction and ...

that connects

Manado Manado (, ) is the capital City status in Indonesia, city of the Indonesian Provinces of Indonesia, province of North Sulawesi. It is the second largest city in Sulawesi after Makassar, with the 2020 census giving a population of 451,916,Badan ...

and

Bitung Bitung, officially the City of Bitung (), is a coastal city at the north-eastern edge of the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia. Bitung is located in the province of North Sulawesi (), and faces Lembeh Island (which forms two districts of the city) ...

, the two largest cities of

North Sulawesi North Sulawesi () is a Provinces of Indonesia, province of Indonesia. It is mainly located on the Minahasa Peninsula of the island of Sulawesi, south of the Philippines and southeast of Sabah, Malaysia, but also includes various small archipel ...

province in the island of

Sulawesi Sulawesi ( ), also known as Celebes ( ), is an island in Indonesia. One of the four Greater Sunda Islands, and the List of islands by area, world's 11th-largest island, it is situated east of Borneo, west of the Maluku Islands, and south of Min ...

Indonesia Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania, between the Indian Ocean, Indian and Pacific Ocean, Pacific oceans. Comprising over List of islands of Indonesia, 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, ...

. This toll road serves as the main access road to Bitung Special Economic Zone (SEZ) and Bitung International Hub Port. This toll road is expected to boost economic growth in Manado, North Minahasa, and Bitung. This toll road will also boost tourism as it will enable easy access to various tourist attractions in Sulawesi, including the Rumah Alam Manado Adventure Park, Kima Atas waterfall, Lembeh Mangrove forest,

Tangkoko Batuangus Nature Reserve Tangkoko Batuangus Nature Reserve, is a nature reserve in the northern part of Sulawesi island of Indonesia, from Manado City. The reserve covers an area of , and includes three mountains: Mount Tangkoko at , Mount Dua Saudara at , and Mount ...

, Gunung Dua Saudara, and other beaches. The toll road was inaugurated by President

Joko Widodo Joko Widodo (; born 21 June 1961), often known mononymously as Jokowi, is an Indonesian politician, engineer, and businessman who served as the seventh president of Indonesia from 2014 to 2024. Previously a member of the Indonesian Democratic ...

on 25 February 2022, after the completion of all sections.

Sections

This toll road is divided into four sections, namely *Section 1A (Manado-Sukur ring road) is *Section 1B (Sukur-Air Madidi) is *Section 2A (Airmadidi-Danowudu) is *Section 2B (Danowudu-Bitung) is

Toll gates

References

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Sections

Toll gates

See also

References