“The proposed South Bali Ring Road is intended to increase tourist access to our popular sun-bathing beaches."
In a terrifying kneejerk reaction to the deluge of international surfers and tourists swamping Bali, a plan to ring the entire Bukit Peninsula with a two-lane highway, one often suspended off the cliffs and ploughing through the line-ups of Uluwatu, Padang Padang and Bingin, has been revealed.
“The proposed South Bali Ring Road,” said a spokeperson, “is intended to increase tourist access to our popular sun-bathing beaches and rim the east, south, and western perimeter of Bali’s southern Bukit peninsula” .
Well, there you have it. An IDR2.7 trillion, or 250-mill US, rim job.
Those supporting the project are now calling for the 37 kilometer roadway to be designated as a ”National Strategic Project” .
For surfers it will be more like a National Ruination project.
Must tourist progress always mean the destruction of the natural beauty that people come to worship in the first place?
A rough diagram of South Bali Ring Road.
Not showing the segments that will be built on the reefs. Complete with selfie points.
Segment #1: 13.2 kilometers (Nusa Dua, Mushrooms, Sri Lanka, Geger and other soon to be not secret spots)
Segment #2: 9.9. kilometers (Pandawa and other soon to be not secret spots)
Segment #3: 7.8 Kilometers (Green Balls, Yang Yang and other soon not to be secret spots
Segment #4: 5.5 – 5.6 Kilometers ( Uluwatu, Padang Padang, Bingin Dreamland).
For now all they need for the go ahead is for the central government designate the project of “strategic national importance”.
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won’t happen
steady on – fair suck of the slighty salmonella suss yet sedap satay stick- stooges- i like the sound of bitchen burning bits of Balinese beach bitumen bukkakeing the Bukit- i mean Jalan Legian was an incredible success in replacing all those pesky shady coconut palms- so why not again pave paradise to put up a rimjob? (besides precedence & boring old common sense)
Never been to Bali but doesn’t 95% of the population drive mopeds (based on my viewing of a half-dozen surf flicks)? Couldn’t they just build a National Moped Lane instead?
international surf boycott Bali to pressurice Indonesian government to stop desasterous highway plan immediately . SIGN PETITION ! https://media3.giphy.com/me…
If you want to protect Bali dont go there , its that simple.
Im willing to bet someone elses cash that over 90 % of visitors to Bali do not surf on a regular basis, if at all.
99%
None of those places are secret spots, and they weren’t in the 90’s. Hard to imagine it went backwards.
Money!!! (Pink Floyd bassline)
This “money hungry monkey” will never stop dream about shit projects 😀 ……destroy all, step by step…nature and culture
Are there any organizations fighting this?
If they do build it, no doubt it’ll be done to the usual Indo standards and crumble into the sea within a decade…
As long as I can do 30mph thru there on a moped, I’m good.
“Must tourist progress always mean the destruction of the natural beauty that people come to worship in the first place?” — Yes.
Margin of error +/- 50km on the map.