JORR W2 (Serpong Toll Road-Merak Toll Road) land acquisition to be finished in October, W1 finished by the end of 2008

In this blog, I will be posting new construction projects that are going on as well. As reported in today’s Kompas, the land acquisition problem that has plagued the JORR W2 for a decade is finally going to end in October. Jakarta officials have sent teams from both West Jakarta and South Jakarta to acquire land from their unfortunate owners in order to create space for the new road that will connect the neighborhoods of Pondok Indah, Ciledug, Kebon Jeruk and Puri Indah ( The new road terminates at the Puri Indah Mall Intersection of the Jakarta- Merak Toll Road) in less than 15 minutes, which is impossible to achieve today. Also in the news is that the JORR W1 connecting Puri Indah and the Airport Toll Road is scheduled to finish at the end of this year. The currently 40% complete highway is set to provide a quicker route to the airport for residents of Serpong, Tangerang, Kebon Jeruk and Lippo Karawaci. Also in the rainy season, when the airport toll roads gets flooded at Km’s 24-27, this will provide a highway route to the airport, considering that currently the only alternative routes are only local streets. How about that? Pondok Indah to Soekarno-Hatta in just 30 minutes? Sweetttttttttt…………

Be careful when sliding down on FX’s Atmosfear!

So you picked that lucky card that can be exchanged for a ride down the world’s longest slider, the Atmosfear. Sliding down from the new mall’s Platinum XXI floor ( or F7 as they call it in FX) (or just the 7th floor for all of you that just dont understand) to the mall’s lobby could be a rough even bloody ride. One of my friends knee , who was one of those lucky ones ( if you ain’t lucky, like me you just get 2 small chocolates) was bleeding after sliding down. The person said” The knee protection is like a toy”. The person even observed that the gloves used to sliding down were a bit torned up, considering the mall just opened up this month. So for all of you guys who are lucky enough to get the card, better not be wearing shorts…or you know the consequences.

Btw for all of you that ddin’t know here are the requirements to get the slider ticket ( as of this writing) :

• Minimum purchase of Rp. 100,000( Instant Ticket) OR

• Minimum purchase of Rp. 1 to be eligible for the draw

The draw has 10 cards and only 2 of them contain the rights for a plunge down the Atmosfear. The rest are free wifi, free chocolates , free parking and free pens.

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