China firm proposes expressway for capital
Wed, 1 October 2014
May Kunmakara
A Chinese company has presented an ambitious plan to build an expressway over Phnom Penh in an effort to relieve traffic congestion.

Representatives from Henan Provincial Communications Planning Survey and Design Institute (HPC) revealed plans for the expressway to Deputy Prime Minister Keat Chhon in Phnom Penh on Monday. If built, the expressway would run from the Camko Satellite City roundabout to the airport, according to a statement from Chhon’s office.

“The [expressway] will enhance the development of the country and especially boost its sustainable economic growth and lift the standard of people’s lives,” HPC chairman Chang Xingwen is quoted as saying in the statement.

Chhon agreed in principle to a build-operate-transfer arrangement with HPC but stressed that the road should run over the city rather than through it.

“The company has to think and definitely conduct feasibility studies about the project’s economic efficiency and the internal rate of return,” he said.

HPC agreed to Chhon’s call for a feasibility study but did not say when one would be done.

Soi Dog wrote:So many major infrastructure proposals lately. How many will ever get the green light?

China firm proposes expressway for capital
Wed, 1 October 2014
May Kunmakara
A Chinese company has presented an ambitious plan to build an expressway over Phnom Penh in an effort to relieve traffic congestion.

Representatives from Henan Provincial Communications Planning Survey and Design Institute (HPC) revealed plans for the expressway to Deputy Prime Minister Keat Chhon in Phnom Penh on Monday. If built, the expressway would run from the Camko Satellite City roundabout to the airport, according to a statement from Chhon’s office.

“The [expressway] will enhance the development of the country and especially boost its sustainable economic growth and lift the standard of people’s lives,” HPC chairman Chang Xingwen is quoted as saying in the statement.

Chhon agreed in principle to a build-operate-transfer arrangement with HPC but stressed that the road should run over the city rather than through it.

“The company has to think and definitely conduct feasibility studies about the project’s economic efficiency and the internal rate of return,” he said.

HPC agreed to Chhon’s call for a feasibility study


but did not say when one would be done.

http://phnompenhpost.com/business/china ... ay-capital

frank lee bent wrote:Did the trains run on time in Indochine?

Sailorman wrote:I may not like the French, but every city they built (and the Brits) in Southeast Asia is well laid out in nice grids. Everything that is done by locals is, well look at Bangkok for example. PP, wide streets laid out by the French surrounded by a rabbits-wren of hodge-podge streets built after they left. Hundreds of years ago the French learned their lesson on disease in sewage and building choked Paris. They tore down buildings and made wide boulevards and a major sewer system. How long before PP sinks into its own crap, but they do have three rivers they can dump it into.