Construction on new underpass on Superhighway to begin in October

Commuters are being warned that an underpass at the intersection of the Superhighway (Highway 11) and Highway 1001 to Mae Jo will begin in October. The underpass, at the Mae Jo intersection will be 800 meters in length, five meters high and will be two way. The Department of Highways will install drainage, lighting and electronic warning signs. There will be 6 lanes in the underpass and 6 frontage road lanes. Construction will take three years with a budget of 1,181 million baht. Additionally the Highway Department will extend the Pa Tan Bridge across the Ping River to four lanes. The government surveyed the project in 2009 and five public meetings were held on the project.

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Great! That means I'll save at least one to two minutes in getting to the half-hour queue-fest at Rincome/Nimman/Maya!

Traffic has increased on the 1001 (Mae Jo) due to traffic avoiding the road work on the Outer Ring Road, 121, and the Mae Rim Rd. 107 junction. I believe this project is due to continue for approximately another year. Now, both the 1001 and the 107 will have major construction at the same time. Sounds like good planning as usual.

Seems close enough to the river to flood the viaduct, on occasion.

^ If you take a close look at any of the other underpasses then you will know why that is very unlikely.

^ If you take a close look at any of the other underpasses then you will know why that is very unlikely.

Exactly...huge pumping capacity built in to prevent such occurrences

^ Yes, and a raised area before going down. If you drive through one you go up first, then down. The 'up' is there for a reason.

Great. Let the cluster <deleted> begin. And let us see about the 3 year bit.

I like everything except the ugly 'bat' liked sign on the underpass.