Developers see near completion of cable-stayed bridge as positive for trade and property prices

8 May 2014
The Phnom Penh Post
Government / Industries / Infrastructure / Ministries and other national bodies / Ministry of Public Works and Transport / Real estate / Roads and bridges / Transport and shipping / Transport infrastructure and facilities
Chhim Phalla / Department of International Cooperation / Japanese aid / Ministry of Public Works and Transport / National Road 1 / Neak Loeung Bridge / Tokyo

Set to open next year, Cambodia’s first cable-stayed bridge is now more than 70 per cent complete, according the government. Chhim Phalla, director of the Ministry of Public Work’s Department of International Cooperation, which is overseeing the Neak Loeung Bridge and improvements to National Road 1, says that 76.3 per cent of the work on the Neak Loeung Bridge had been completed at the end of March. He adds that the only work remaining was the core centre of the bridge, with 300 metres remaining to connect the two sides. The bridge is 2,220 metres long, 13 metres wide and 37.5 metres above the water level during the rainy season, and it will have two wide lanes for traffic. …

 Siv Meng and Sum Manet
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/real-estate/developers-see-near-completion-cable-stayed-bridge-positive-trade-and-property-prices