Love Bridge in Tidung Island Tilted Due to Land Subsidence
Reported by Budhi Firmansyah Surapati | Translated by Nugroho Adibrata
Due to land subsidence, the Love Bridge located at Tidung Bridge, Seribu Selatan Island, Seribu Islands Administration, looks tilted. As a result, its tilt is reaching about 100 out of 800 meters long.
In one week ahead, seven bridge poles will be amplified
To anticipate unwanted things, the Seribu Islands Public
Works Sub-Department has done repair on the bridge's buffer foundation and has
been ongoing since a week. It is predicted to finish next week.
The Love Bridge itself is one tourist attraction to visit.
Every weekend or national holiday, the site is always crowded by hundreds of
local and foreign tourists.
Head of Seribu Islands Public Works Sub-Department, Hamdan
explained land subsidence caused the bridge tilted about 100 meters on the
north side. Besides that, the top of the bridge has begun to crack. Such
incident happened in mid-October.
"In one week ahead, seven bridge poles will be
amplified," he told, Monday (11/24).
To prevent similar case, he would check the land structure.
As the initial phase, the repair is firstly focused on the bridge's concrete
element poles.
"We spend Rp 300 million to repair the bridge.
Henceforth, we plan to do the research. If it was needed, we could re-build the
bridge," he stated.
