From the Bangkokpost today...
The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) is reviving four Chao Phraya bridge projects worth over 10 billion baht and looking for consultancy firms to study their feasibility. According to Chumpol Sampaopol, deputy public works director of the BMA, the first bridge, estimated to cost one billion baht, will cross the Chao Phraya river between Ratchawong and Din Daeng piers.
The second bridge, costing 2.4 billion baht, will cross between Lat Ya and Maha Phruttharam roads.
The third bridge, at 3.2 billion baht, will cross between Chan and Charoen Nakhon roads, and the fourth bridge, at 4.4 billion baht, will cross between the Kiakkai area and Bang Phlad district.
The BMA will hire four consultancies to study the four bridges. The combined study budget is set at 191 million baht.
The BMA will select the consultancies in a few months and they will spend eight months concluding their studies, which will include the projects' feasibility, the exact costs and the impact on the owners of properties to be expropriated.
Mr Chumpol said the state would pay all the costs of the bridges. The projects were suspended because the BMA was earlier involved in bid-rigging scandals for 16 road projects, faced opposition to property expropriation and had to deal with duplication issues among some electric railway extension routes.
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