INDUSTRY.co.id - Sumenep - With regard to the semi-fast railway development plan of Jakarta-Surabaya, Minister of Transportation (Menhub) Budi Karya Sumadi hopes that the travel time of Jakarta-Surabaya can be reached within 5 hours at 140 kilometers / hour.

There is a target that is very reasonable, we want Jakarta-Surabaya to be taken in five hours, meaning that the capacity directly doubled, so 24 hours it departs and returns twice, said Budi at Trunojoyo Airport, Sumenep, Madura East Java, Sunday (8/10/2017) ago.

With the target, the Minister of Transportation hopes that the people who initially used the aircraft will switch to the train so that it will save more travel costs.

Japan is still capable of 120 kilometers / hour, we want 140 kilometers / hour, with speeds reaching 140 kilometers / hour anything done would be cheaper, he said.

Minister of Transportation mentioned that there are four things to be done related to the construction of semi-fast train Jakarta-Surabaya namely completion of crossing plot, electrification, reducing bends and cliffs.

With the electrification of many advantages that we can, the national industry will grow, the cost of its maintenance will be cheaper, and eco friendly, called Minister of Transportation.

Minister of Transportation confirmed the semi-fast Jakarta-Semarang Railway can be completed in 2019. My shadow Jakarta-Semarang can be completed in 2019 can certainly, new Semarang-Surabaya say we need two more years so total four years we concentrate because Jakarta-Semarang it if Lebaran the most problem in Jakarta-Semarang, if switching to it, is extraordinary, he explained.