Diversion tactic:  Highways Dept spends B720mn on ‘ring road’  to ease impending light-rail traffic congestion 

By Tanyaluk Sakoot

 

Work continues on the B720 million expansion of Route 4027 through Pa Khlok to create a 20km-long ‘alternative route’ for motorists for when construction of the light rail finally begins. Photo: Phuket Highways Office
 

The Phuket office of the Highways Dept is spending B720 million on a four-lane road through Pa Khlok to join the Heroines Monument with what is to become a major intersection at Muang Mai, north of Thalang Town.

 

The project, hoped to be completed within 2023, is aimed at easing congestion along the island’s busiest road, Thepkrasattri Rd, technically called Route 402, when construction of the light-rail finally begins. (See page 5.)

 

Officially dubbed the Tha Rua – Muang Mai Highway, the road construction has already seen Phase 1 complete along 5.9km of the southern end of the existing road, Route 4027, starting from the Heroines Monument heading towards Baan Pa Khlok.

Full story: https://www.thephuketnews.com/diversion-tactic- -highways-dept-spends-b720mn-on-ring-road  to-ease-impending-light-rail-traffic-congestion-71944.php#demo

 

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Does anyone actually believe this rail project will start.....the budget will be gone soon!