PUBLISHED: 15 Oct 2024 at 04: 00
This week, the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration ( BMA ) and the Mass Rapid Transit Authority of Thailand ( MRTA ) will sign a memorandum of understanding ( MoU) to hand over areas during the construction of the western section of the Orange Line.
Tawatchai Napasaksri, chairman of the BMA’s Public Works Department, said monday the committee responsible for the transfer of streets in Bangkok, along with crucial firms and seven city offices, met next Monday. They discussed the transfer of land and roads while the northern part of the Orange Line mass transport project, which passes through Bang Khun Non, was being constructed.
After the transfer, the company may review all buildings, both above and underground, along the Orange Line’s way in the areas in problem. The highway will be reopened to visitors during the day after the first excavation work is finished at night.
Total road closures for the building, both during the day and evening, will start next year.
The MRTA will need to release open information before the entire closures and install caution signs and traffic management plans in accordance with recognized safety standards.
According to the MoU’s terms, which will be signed this week, this condition applies.
The committee consented to allow the MRTA to continue with the development by transferring the whole width of the designated highways along the Orange Line’s path to the MRTA.
Since last Tuesday, the contractors CH Karnchang Public Company Limited and the MRTA’s Bangkok Expressway and Metro Public Company Limited ( BEM), which holds the agreement for the Orange Line initiative, have been able to access the regions in preparing for the transfer.
The chairman claims that the BMA is concerned about the design because three helicopters have been destroyed at Pratunam Intersection, Ratchathewi Intersection, and where Sutthawat Road and Charan Sanitwong Road cross.
To make room for the structure of the underground tunnel, these roads will need to be erected.
After execution, they will be rebuilt, but the work may produce substantial traffic disruption.
To minimize the impact on the public, the MRTA has been asked to create in-depth customers management plans for each area.