CANGGU, Bali – Bali’s provincial authorities is making ready a sea taxi route connecting I Gusti Ngurah Rai Worldwide Airport to Canggu as visitors congestion within the standard tourism space continues to worsen.
In current months, movies exhibiting heavy visitors throughout Canggu have unfold broadly on social media, with many vacationers and residents complaining about lengthy delays on roads main into the realm. Congestion is very extreme alongside the slender “Canggu Shortcut” routes, which incessantly expertise gridlock throughout peak hours.
Bali Deputy Governor I Nyoman Giri Prasta stated the deliberate sea taxi service is anticipated to develop into an alternate transportation choice for vacationers heading to Canggu from the airport.
“The ocean taxi route is important and has already been deliberate, so folks touring from Ngurah Rai Airport to Canggu can go straight by sea as an alternative of relying fully on land transportation,” Giri stated following a Bali Regional Legislative Council (DPRD) plenary session on Monday, Might 18, 2026.
The plan emerged as visitors congestion in Canggu continues to attract widespread complaints amid fast tourism progress and growing automobile numbers within the space.
Giri, who beforehand served as Regent of Badung, acknowledged that efforts to handle congestion in Canggu haven’t but been totally efficient.
In line with him, widening roads across the Canggu Shortcut is troublesome as a result of restricted land availability and the presence of Hindu household shrines and temples close to the roadside.
“Since I took workplace, I’ve solely been capable of full one shortcut undertaking, and even that was not totally optimum as a result of the highway circumstances had been already restricted. It additionally couldn’t be widened additional as a result of there are Hindu shrines and household temples that can’t merely be relocated,” he stated.
As a part of the undertaking, the Bali Provincial Authorities, along with the Badung Regency Authorities and the central authorities, plans to develop a number of stopover factors alongside the ocean taxi route.
In line with Giri, the constructions are anticipated to serve each as passenger transit factors and as breakwaters to assist cut back wave impression alongside the shoreline.
Officers hope the ocean route can ease strain on overcrowded roads main into Canggu, which has develop into one in all Bali’s busiest tourism hubs in recent times.
Alongside the ocean taxi undertaking, the Bali Provincial Authorities stated it should proceed growing highway infrastructure in a number of different areas throughout the island, together with deliberate underpass initiatives in Jimbaran and Tohpati.
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