Revised motorway plan 'to be ready for Cabinet approval by January'

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The operation and maintenance (O&M) project of M6 Motorway (Bangpa-In - Nakhon Ratchasima) for a distance of 196 kilometres, and the M9 Motorway (Bangyai - Kanchanaburi) for a distance of 96km are currently undergoing plan adjustment, the Department of Highways said.

 

The department's director-general, Sarawut Songwilai, said the updated plans would be submitted to the Cabinet by January 2021.

 

“The reasons we need to adjust the plans are due to changes in the bidding process, as the project had been initiated back in 2012 and there have been changes in the geographic condition of the construction areas,” he said.

 

“Also, on the routes that run through such facilities as irrigation canals, the height of bridges would need to be increased and therefore require a corresponding budget.”

 

Sarawut added that the department had estimated the cost of construction of the M6 Motorway at Bt70 billion, while the price offered by the bidder was Bt60 billion.

 

“We estimate that the plan adjustment would require an additional Bt6.8 billion from the Bt10 billion that we have left,” he said.

 

“The updated plan should be finished within this month, and after it is approved by the Minister of Transport it would be proposed to the Cabinet by January next year.”

 

The Bangpa-In - Nakhon Ratchasima Motorway will start the test run period around the end of 2022. Currently, 92 per cent of construction has been completed.

 

The O&M project will be handled by bid winner BGSR Consortium, which consists of BTS Group Holding, Gulf Energy Development, Sino-Thai Engineering and Construction and Ratch Group, for 30 years after it opens for public use.

 

BGSR offered Bt21.3 billion, lower than the estimated Bt33.25 billion cost of the O&M project.

 

Construction of the Bangyai-Kanchanaburi Motorway is now 40 per cent complete. BGSR is also the bid winner for the O&M project.

 

It is expected to open for public use within 2023.

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30399217

 

 

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require an additional Bt6.8 billion

 

Ah so that is why the plan needs  'adjustment', a larger brown envelope required

The government will build a motorway to Isan but we can't even get the roadworks to duplicate the highway between Chiang Mai to Chiang Rai finished in the north. 

16 hours ago, webfact said:

undergoing plan adjustment

Code for new recipients of brown envelopes.

Wow, another win for Sino Thai under the transport ministry..... and Gulf Energy, who Sino Thai seem to have taken a 3% stake in recently.

Add fly overs and remove all the goddamn traffic lights causing all the traffic and there will be no need for elevated tollways. 

22 hours ago, webfact said:

The Bangpa-In - Nakhon Ratchasima Motorway will start the test run period around the end of 2022. Currently, 92 per cent of construction has been completed.

 

So two years to complete the final 8 percent?

Some of the built sections will have to be demolished and rebuilt to give higher clearance over irrigation canals. When the submarines come down the canals with their periscopes extended there is insufficient clearance. That's what Engineer Somchai told me. Jing Jing, mai gohok! ????

On 12/7/2020 at 2:36 PM, webfact said:

are currently undergoing plan adjustment,

more Chinese loans to fund this massive Nationwide road construction programme.  Virtually every road in my Province is being extended, expanded, upgraded and/or re surfaced, at a cost that certainly the UK and the US could never afford. .  It's good news for drivers of course,  but very bad news for the future independence of Thailand and its reliance on its 'friend' in Beijing. Thailand will end up like Mauritius, Sri Lanka,  and several African countries, in not actually owning any of its own infrastructure due to debt defaults to China.