Revealing the plan to build a bridge across Maha Sawat Canal, Nonthaburi, with a budget of one billion, expected to be completed in 2025.

Department of Rural Roads Opening a plan to build a bridge across Mahasawat Canal, Ratchaphruek Road, Nonthaburi Province with a budget of a billion baht, progress 31%, expected to be completed in 2025, supporting dense traffic of 110,000 vehicles per day.

Department of Rural Roads Open planBuild a bridge across Mahasawat Canal, Ratchaphruek Road, Nonthaburi Province. tooBillion baht budget 31% progress, expected completionYear 2025 Supporttrafficwith a dense volume of 110,000 vehicles per day

Mr. Apirat Chaiwongnoi, Director-General of the Department of Rural Roads, revealed that the Rural Roads Department has carried out a project to construct a bridge over Mahasawat Canal, Ratchaphruek Road, Nonthaburi Province. To promote and develop and organize the road network to cover the needs of the people.

The project starts at km 12+850 and ends at km 15+100 due to the growth rate of land use in Nonthaburi Province on the west side of the Chao Phraya River has developed and grown rapidly.

Especially along the boundary of Ratchaphruek Road. As a result, Ratchaphruek Road is unable to support the heavy traffic of up to 110,000 vehicles per day, especially during rush hour.

This causes the efficiency of Ratchapruek Road to decrease. There is a safety problem for road users. And accidents happen often. Especially in the area of ​​the bridge over Maha Sawat Canal that is a bottleneck.traffic jams This is because the road area is insufficient to allow for the construction of a parallel road in the general format.

In order to solve this problem. and increase the potential for transportation to be more flexible The Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Crime Suppression Division therefore proceeded to determine the design of the bridge over Mahasawat Canal to remain within the original route. This can reduce bottlenecks and traffic in the area.

After that, a project was carried out to construct a bridge over Mahasawat Canal, Ratchaphruek Road, Nonthaburi Province. It has the form of a steel bridge with 2 traffic lanes per direction (round trip) and a width of 8.50 meters. The inbound side of the bridge is 2.10 kilometers long and the outbound side is 1.90 kilometers long.

Including the construction of a drainage system. Electrical lighting system and miscellaneous work useBudgetin construction of 1,181.515 million baht, which currently the construction work has progressed more than 31 percent, faster than planned.

Currently the steel structure is being installed. both in the column and beam sections Construction is expected to be completed in 2025.

During the construction period, the RTA has installed barriers and installed speed reduction warning signs for the public to clearly observe. For safety in traveling

Including the closure and diversion of traffic lanes at 3 points as follows: from km. 12+900 to km. 15+100, right-hand side in the area of ​​1 parallel traffic lane, from km. 12+950 to km. 14 +600 on the left in the area of ​​1 parallel traffic lane and during km 13+300 to km 14+600 in the area of ​​the main traffic lane, the rightmost lane, 1 traffic lane, outbound heading towards Nonthaburi Province.

which will be diverted until construction work is completed Therefore, we ask for cooperation from road users to please observe traffic signs. Including strictly following warning signs and recommendation signs. For safe travel and we apologize for any inconvenience on this occasion.