February 14,
2018
The first
40-mile section of the Yangon-Mandalay Expressway, on which hundreds of traffic
accidents occur every year, will be upgraded to international standards with
the assistance from the Asian Development Bank (ADB), said Deputy Minister for
Construction U Kyaw Lin.
He made the
comment at the Pyithu Hluttaw yesterday in his answer to the question of
whether the government has a plan to upgrade the road to a modern four-lane
road in order to decrease road accidents, to install modern monitoring and
safety equipment and to enforce traffic rules along the road.
“The cabinet has
allowed us to get a loan from ADB to upgrade the section from 0 mile to 40
miles starting from Yangon, and we will submit our plan to Pyidaungsu Hluttaw
soon,” said Deputy Minister U Kyaw Lin.
The condition of
the road does not meet international standards in three ways — speed, comfort
and safety, he said.
Though the road
was targeted to be constructed meeting the expressway standard, use of the road
was allowed before the road met the international standard, said U Kyaw Lin.
In attempts to
reduce traffic accidents, road signs, rumble strips, road lines, road lane and
solar lamp posts are installed at 22 places where road accidents mostly
happened.
The major cause
of traffic accidents is speeding, and it has been discovered that the number of
traffic accidents has decreased dramatically as speed limits have been imposed
and pointed out that it is necessary to set up sign boards for road safety
along the expressway.
Actions have
been taken against more than 22,600 vehicles from 2016 to 2018 for breaking
traffic rules.
Kyaw Thu Htet,
Mi Mi Phyo/Myanmar News Agency
Ref; The Global
New Light of Myanmar
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