Sumatra's Long and Winding Toll Road
A line of trucks snaked out of Hatta village, South Lampung regency. Repairs from the mouth of Bakauheni harbor meant only one lane was passable. Vehicles had no choice but to wait for hours to go to Bandar Lampung or vice versa.
Sunaryoto, a truck driver on the way to Semarang, Central Java, said he had been held up for five hours. Despite using the Sumatra-Java Crossing often, despair still hits him every time there's a prospect of passing the Sumatra road. "The roads are always like this, continually severely damaged," he told Tempo in July.
August 5, 2014
A line of trucks snaked out of Hatta village, South Lampung regency. Repairs from the mouth of Bakauheni harbor meant only one lane was passable. Vehicles had no choice but to wait for hours to go to Bandar Lampung or vice versa.
Sunaryoto, a truck driver on the way to Semarang, Central Java, said he had been held up for five hours. Despite using the Sumatra-Java Crossing often, despair still hits him every time there's a prospect of passing the
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