Bangkok's longest traffic tunnel opens today

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Bangkok's longest traffic tunnel opens today

By Chayanit Itthipongmaetee, Staff Reporter

 

City officials ride a bus Tuesday morning through the Mahai Sawan Tunnel in the Thonburi district.

 

BANGKOK — Traffic in the Thonburi area is expected to flow more smoothly after the Bangkok’s longest tunnel opened Tuesday morning.

 

The Mahai Sawan Tunnel, which runs parallel to the Somdet Phra Chao Taksin Road to pass under Rama II Road, opened for round-the-clock use by motorists starting today.

 

Full story: http://www.khaosodenglish.com/news/transpo/2017/04/11/bangkoks-longest-traffic-tunnel-opens-today/

 

-- © Copyright Khaosod English 2017-04-11

[wirat69]

Thought RTP were cracking down on underground activities for Songkran!!! hahahahaha 

[natway09]

Bad choice of words It is an underpass

[Gandtee]

Ironic they are using a London bus from the 1950s. Perhaps Thai buses are not to it

[seancbk]

That isn't a tunnel, it's a trench.

Why not put a road on top as well.   They've not made any extra space by building this 'trench'.

 

 

[Thaidream]

The one place they really need a tunnel would be the Asoke-Sukhumvit intersection. Construction would be costly and the traffic jam unbearable.

[thaipod]

Yeah and how many years did it take. 

[funandsuninbangkok]

2 hours ago, Thaidream said:

The one place they really need a tunnel would be the Asoke-Sukhumvit intersection. Construction would be costly and the traffic jam unbearable.

Would have to move the MRT first

 

in fact they have plans for a flyover to go from Asoke junktion to pechiburi. Can you imagine double the car fumes there in summer? Uh

Edited April 11, 2017 by funandsuninbangkok

[chilli42]

Why do they keep building 2 lane tunnels?  They are inadequate.  Another big project on Pattanakarn is also planned for two lanes.  They don't seem capable of planning for the future.

[berybert]

5 hours ago, Gandtee said:

Ironic they are using a London bus from the 1950s. Perhaps Thai buses are not to it

I 'ate you Butler, grrrrrrrrrrrr get that bus out.

[berybert]

2 hours ago, chilli42 said:

Why do they keep building 2 lane tunnels?  They are inadequate.  Another big project on Pattanakarn is also planned for two lanes.  They don't seem capable of planning for the future.

They think yesterday was the future.

[funandsuninbangkok]

9 hours ago, natway09 said:

Bad choice of words It is an underpass

Anyone have the heart th tell the Thais they only have a trench, not a tunnel?

 

 

[berybert]

51 minutes ago, funandsuninbangkok said:

Anyone have the heart th tell the Thais they only have a trench, not a tunnel?

 

 

It's a tunnel when its dark. Farang know nothing.

[johnno2]

15 hours ago, funandsuninbangkok said:

Anyone have the heart th tell the Thais they only have a trench, not a tunnel?

 

 

theres a little tunnel where rama 3 road goes over the top of it, about 200 yards. I live near there and the traffic was totally chaotic when they were building this.

[Morakot]

On 11/04/2017 at 4:05 PM, natway09 said:

Bad choice of words It is an underpass

Clearly you haven't inspected the site...

 

An underground passageway, dug through soil and enclosed except for entrance and exit, commonly at each end, is called a tunnel.

 

 

 

http://news.lovepattayathailand.com/national/bangkok-tunnel-opens/

Edited April 14, 2017 by Morakot

[Morakot]

On 11/04/2017 at 4:53 PM, Gandtee said:

Ironic they are using a London bus from the 1950s. Perhaps Thai buses are not to it

Goes well with the country's obsession with the 1950s!

[JSixpack]

Where are all the flooding prophecies and jokes? It appears that Bangkok forum posters aren't as intelligent as our Pattaya construction engineers.

[fruitman]

At Rachapruck Road is a similar tunnel/underpass which is like 3 years old now. Right at the deepest point they opened up all the wallpanels to show the totally rotten drain?-pipes...Guess the contractor forgot to use high quality pipes.

But the pipes are still uncovered or fixed...the wallpanels are removed for a year or so now. Don't understand why they don't fix it.