Hua Hin Municipality To Widen The Ang Nam Railway Crossroad

Hua Hin Municipality to widen the Ang Nam railway crossroad

Chaman Peungioh

The Hua Hin Mayor brought a motion to ask for allowance in widening Ang Nam railway crossroad with approx. 6 MB. of the budget being given to the State Railway of Thailand (SRT) to proceed. After the project, the traffic will be smoother.

Mr. Siraphan Kamonpramote, the Hua Hin Mayor, Prachuap Khirikhan revealed he has already bought the proposal to widen Ang Nam Crossroad from the Council. The Council reached the agreement with approx. 6 MB. of the budget used to improve the road, railway fence and warning sound system when a train is coming.

The project will be initiated by SRT and money will be given to outsource companies to improve the roads, the Municipality will be only responsible for payment. The Municipality will be in charge of paving a closely adjoining road costing another 300,000 baht of budget.

“At the moment, the process of the project at the discussion stage with SRT to determine how to divide working responsibilities. The most concerning difficulty is to remove some part of commercial booths on the left side to widen the road, but hopefully, the problem will finally be solved because those commercial booths haven’t been registered with the Municipality and the Municipality Council and the Municipality hasn’t allowed those booths to be built on the area.

There will be no problems as regards to the Brahma Shrine because it will be located another proper place and there will be a removing ceremony of the Shrine as well. All of the procedures will proceed under cooperation of the Municipality and SRT” said Mr. Siraphan.

Mr. Siraphan added the process of widening Ang Nam Crossroad must be urgently done, as soon as the negotiation is terminated. Mr. Prasong Phithunkijja, the Prachuap Khirikhan Provincial Governor, on behalf of CEO Provincial Gorvernor, will take part in the negotiation to directly inform those who are in trouble that such a crossroad is regarded as a problem as it obstructs the city’s development in the local and provincial plan.

The most concerning crossroads affecting traffic, the way of life and tourists are one at Ang Nam and one at Soi 108 (Nong Kae) requiring 5 MB. to be given to SRT to improve them, but now the most important one is the Ang Nam Crossroad which needs to be first priority and is estimated to be finished before the end of this year.

After improvement, the traffic system will be improved because of a widened road, cars will be running in both in up & down directions so there will be a continuous flow of traffic and this will make driving out to the bypass road easier than ever.

The Ang Nam Crossroad is the most difficult and concerning problem because being given permission to widen the road from SRT took almost 2 years.

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