New Bt70-billion toll motorway from west of Bangkok to upper South planned for 2024

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New Bt70-billion toll motorway from west of Bangkok to upper South planned for 2024

By The Nation

 

 

The Department of Highways has set a deadline of 2024 to open a new Bt70-billion toll motorway linking the Bangkok border province of Nakhon Pathom with Cha-am district in Phetchaburi province. The department has dismissed local calls for the new road to connect with an existing highway.

 

Satitpong Apimethee, the Department of Highways director in Prachuap Khiri Khan, said the new route would create a shortcut to the South for tourists and goods.

 

Somboon Thienthammacha, deputy director for the road’s location and design, said Thailand had fallen behind compared with neighbouring countries where highway projects had been underway for years. Attempts to construct a main southern highway have been frustrated for the past two decades.

 

Locals living along the new route had proposed that it connect up with the existing national highway No 3510. The department dismissed the proposal, explaining that Highway 3510 had too many bends to serve the logistical aims of the new road.

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30372952

 

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[Damrongsak]

Highway to Hell ...

 

 

 

[TooBigToFit]

Bangkok needs more and more and gets more and more. How many trains has Prayut put in the city or connected to it?

[Chazar]

build it  and make  the  speed 120kph,  ban  lorries  they  can  use  the  old  road.

[Lungstib]

Always huge concrete structures. Thailand is in love with concrete and these projects excite big business. Why? Could it be that recent reports in the international press that concrete (cement) is the most corrupt business worldwide are correct? No need to answer is there, the corruption is what keeps everything going regardless of government. 

[geoffbezoz]

Good to see it is elevated and will be completed by 2024,  as by 2094 it may well have become possibly Thailand's longest series of connected bridges with the projected rise in sea-levels.

[Thailand J]

[leeneeds]

Shares in concrete supplier?

a boon if you are.

[blackcab]

An off topic post and replies to it have been removed.

[overherebc]

59 minutes ago, geoffbezoz said:

Its the electric version of the current diesel powered lorry ????, which by the time this highway is completed, if ever, it will be the only form of propulsion available

Seethemlor a'a'a's

There theygo

Fort 'a' lor a'a'a's

inarow

Thereno lor a'a'a's

Themare trux

Seawots inem

coosan dux.

[Cadbury]

1 hour ago, Lungstib said:

Always huge concrete structures. Thailand is in love with concrete and these projects excite big business. Why? Could it be that recent reports in the international press that concrete (cement) is the most corrupt business worldwide are correct? No need to answer is there, the corruption is what keeps everything going regardless of government. 

Thailand concrete is prone to cancer. Insufficient cement and an abundance of sea sand??

Pieces are falling of the elevated BTS rail system already.

[mikebell]

1 hour ago, overherebc said:

Seethemlor a'a'a's

There theygo

Fort 'a' lor a'a'a's

inarow

Thereno lor a'a'a's

Themare trux

Seawots inem

coosan dux.

Am I missing something here?  I thought posts had to be in English?

 

This new highway will just become another slaughter house.

[overherebc]

8 minutes ago, mikebell said:

Am I missing something here?  I thought posts had to be in English?

 

This new highway will just become another slaughter house.

Adding a touch of attempted humour sometimes works, sometimes doesn't.

????

[mikebell]

4 minutes ago, overherebc said:

Adding a touch of attempted humour sometimes works, sometimes doesn't.

????

I love humour & hate having to explain it to puzzled readers.  I am puzzled though.

[overherebc]

3 minutes ago, mikebell said:

I love humour & hate having to explain it to puzzled readers.  I am puzzled though.

First line

See them lorr'ies' ( lor+ aaa's )

[seajae]

if they just repaired the current roads properly so you didnt have all the pot holes and crappy repairs right along it plus added a lane each way they would save a heap of money, problem is they do really pathetic repair work on the roads that crumbles within 6 months then complain the roads are no good and need to spend billions building new ones that will also fall apart due to all the corruption involved meaning the use of poor materials and building standards to make more profit. 

[ExpatOilWorker]

2 hours ago, Thailand J said:

It is just the first phase of the M8.

[NE1]

So will the new Nakhon Pathom to Cha Am road will run on top of the present dual carriageway that is used now ?

[rwill]

5 hours ago, Chazar said:

build it  and make  the  speed 120kph,  ban  lorries  they  can  use  the  old  road.

Seems their plan is to install cameras and lower the speed limits.  Highway 35 for instance from Samut Sakhon to Samut Songkram the speed limit is now 80, with parts of it as low as 60.  In one spot there is a 90 sign and then about 20 meters past it a 60 sign.

Edited July 15, 2019 by rwill

[essox essox]

1 hour ago, mikebell said:

Am I missing something here?  I thought posts had to be in English?

 

This new highway will just become another slaughter house.

if what the poster posted is in ENGLISH he must have the brain of a chang.......

[zydeco]

Oh, great. This will feed right into Borom, which has already had four or five new highways and roadways feed into it over the past six or seven years creating one big parking lot.

[PETERTHEEATER]

2 hours ago, overherebc said:

Seethemlor a'a'a's

There theygo

Fort 'a' lor a'a'a's

inarow

Thereno lor a'a'a's

Themare trux

Seawots inem

coosan dux.

Read this with a Geordie accent. US citizens need not apply.....????

[steven100]

Another project initiative put forward by Khun Prayut's government.

More projects have been either started, put out to tender or completed by this government in 4 years than what others have tried to do in the past 20 years.

 

[hotchilli]

8 hours ago, TooBigToFit said:

Bangkok needs more and more and gets more and more. How many trains has Prayut put in the city or connected to it?

Nakhon Pathom is approx 60 kilometers west of Bangkok... not sure what you mean?

There is a train link from Bangkok to Nakhon Pathom as well as many mini-bus services from various locations in the capital

Driving yourself from Bangkok there is a very good road connection which takes about an hour.

[RocketDog]

There goes the neighborhood.

 

Damn.

[Krataiboy]

3 hours ago, steven100 said:

Another project initiative put forward by Khun Prayut's government.

More projects have been either started, put out to tender or completed by this government in 4 years than what others have tried to do in the past 20 years.

 

What about the one which was supposed to bring happiness to the people rather than relatives and friends in the concrete and steel business?

[VocalNeal]

8 minutes ago, Krataiboy said:

relatives and friends in the concrete and steel business?

Those who own the cement company are neither friends nor relatives of anyone in the government, as far as I know. 

[Stupooey]

10 hours ago, Damrongsak said:

Highway to Hell ...

 

 

 

Admittedly Cha Am is no Marbella, but likening it to Hell is pushing it a bit. Indeed, if that is what Hell is like I'll have to start sinning more.

[Tagged]

Dissapointed, the Petchabun route is just in the middle of nowhere refering to this plan. 

[Krataiboy]

13 minutes ago, VocalNeal said:

Those who own the cement company are neither friends nor relatives of anyone in the government, as far as I know. 

You're probably right, and I've just got a nasty, suspicious mind. Been here too long, obviously.