Mar will build Skybridge from Block M Station to Panglima Polimim
Jakarta -Pt Mass Rapid Transit (Mar) Jakarta plans to build a transition or skybridge for pedestrians in the block M. bridge area, Blok M station with buildings in the Panglima Polim area, South Jakarta (South Jakarta). The construction of the doorway is part of the efforts of the Jakarta Mar that revives the block M area in a livable area or a live district. Jakarta Mar hope that revival Block M will make as a pedestrian -friendly area. “The future development we will first develop, the construction of the Skybridge block M from the station to the area of the buildings in Panglima Polim,” said Thursday (7/8/8/2025), director of business development at PT Mar Jakarta, Farchad H Mahfud. Browse to continue with the contents of Farchad, hope that Skybridge can facilitate pedestrian mobility. Especially, he said, for workers in the buildings that Skybridge later passed. “Then the most important development concept is actually how to change this area that is not friendly pedestrians from the Peruri area to the Melawai area so that people can easily run, not resistant to the terminal wall. It must be revived,” he said. “We will try to develop later that all these businesses will move to the ground. So that people’s movements will be easy. We have started developing the area here with the restrictions we eliminate,” he continued. He said that one of the pedestrian barriers in the block M area is access to the terminal. He said pedestrians had to go up the stairs so far to get to the terminal. “One of the obstacles for people walking there is the terminal shape that is a bit upwards. Especially if you move from the Peruri area to the Melawai area, it will definitely find the wall. Now you have to go up the stairs and then meet the terminal, ‘he said. “The design is a person from the Peruri area or from the housing complex that can run without obstacles so that the Plong Road opens,” he continued. Open space and the addition of Taman Farchad said that the Jakarta Mar will add an open spatial area or an open space activity on the west side. In addition, he is aimed at the addition of parks on the east. “The green is the side of the East Park, we add the creative area,” he explained. The plan, development begins in the next 2 to 3 years. Jakarta Mar will prepare a design before the construction begins. (cover/haf)