Probolinggo–Banyuwangi Toll Road (Probowangi Toll Road) is a

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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 ...

East Java East Java (, , ) is a Provinces of Indonesia, province of Indonesia located in the easternmost third of Java island. It has a land border only with the province of Central Java to the west; the Java Sea and the Indian Ocean border its northern ...

. The toll road will connect

Probolinggo Regency Probolinggo Regency (Javanese: ꦏꦧꦸꦥꦠꦺꦤ꧀ꦥꦿꦧꦭꦶꦁꦒ, romanized: Kabupatèn Prabalingga) is a regency in East Java province of Indonesia. It covers an area of 1,696.17 sq. km, and had a population of 1,096,244 at the 2 ...

Situbondo Regency Situbondo Regency ( Madurese: ''Kabhupatèn Situbânḍâ'') is a regency ''(kabupaten)'' in the east of East Java province, Indonesia. It covers an area of 1,658.03 km2, and had a population of 647,619 at the 2010 CensusBiro Pusat Statisti ...

and

Banyuwangi Regency Banyuwangi Regency (, ) is a Regency (Indonesia), regency of East Java province in Indonesia. This regency also known as ''the sun rise of Java'' because it is located at the easternmost end of Java (island), Java Island. The town of Banyuwang ...

. The toll road will be integrated with Port of Ketapang to allow crossing from Java to

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. The toll road is the final phase of

Trans-Java Toll Road The Trans-Java Toll Road is a toll road, tolled controlled-access highway, expressway network in Java, the island of Java, Indonesia, runs from Port of Merak in Cilegon, the main link between the island of Sumatra and Java, to Banyuwangi, the eas ...

with

Port of Merak Port of Merak is a seaport located in the Pulo Merak District of the city of Cilegon, Banten, on the northwestern tip of Java, Indonesia. The port and district are named after the green peafowl, which once lived in the region, but now lives only ...

on the western end. It is currently under route planning phase, but the construction of the first phase of this toll road was expected to be operational around 2024.

History

The groundbreaking for the first section of the toll road was done on 6 February 2023 by the

Minister of Public Works and Housing The Ministry of Housing and Public Works (; ''Gr̥hāẏana ō gaṇapūrta mantraṇālaẏa'') is a ministry of the government of Bangladesh which provides housing and regulates the state construction activities in the country. Directorate *P ...

Basuki Hadimuljono Mochamad Basuki Hadimuljono (born 5 November 1954) is an Indonesian bureaucrat who is the current Head of The Nusantara Capital City Authority and was the former Minister of Public Works and Public Housing under Joko Widodo. Before his appointme ...

with expectations that the first phase will be operating in 2024.

Sections

The toll road is divided into 6 sections: * Section 1: Kraksaan–Paiton, * Section 2: Paiton–Besuki, * Section 3:

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– Situbondo, * Section 4: Situbondo–Asembagus, * Section 5: Asembagus–Bajulmati, * Section 6: Bajulmati–

Ketapang Ketapang, or ''Tau-pang'' in Teochew, is the administrative capital of Ketapang Regency (''Kabupaten Ketapang''), one of the regencies of West Kalimantan province on the island of Borneo in Indonesia. Ketapang town is located at and is a tow ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Probolinggo-Banyuwangi Toll Road Toll roads in East Java

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