Transport infrastructure and facilities
Roads and bridges
Government to evict families under bridge
The government has delayed plans to renovate the Chroy Changvar Bridge, which was slated to undergo changes and improvements this month, after it was revealed that 21 families will have their homes demolished near the eastern end of the bridge to facilitate the construction. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/33878/government-to-evict-families-under-bridge/
New Cambodia-Thai border gate
Terminal facilities, a road connecting to National Road 5 and a bridge linking Stung Bot in Cambodia with Ban Nong Ian in Thailand will begin construction next year. The entirety of the bridge, including Cambodia’s side, will be constructed by Thailand, according to Va Sim Soriya, ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/33374/new-cambodia-thai-border-gate/
Minister calls for higher standard for road work
Minister of Public Works and Transport Sun Chanthol yesterday ordered his officials to keep a close eye on a new $1.3 million project to widen National Road 4 in Preah Sihanouk province in order to halt criticism of shoddy road quality and corruption in his ...
Touch Sokha
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/minister-calls-higher-standard-road-work
Mobile vehicle checkpoints start
The Ministry of Transport has started checking trucks traveling along National Road 6 to ensure they conform to legal size and modification requirements, it announced this week. According to a post on the ministry’s Facebook page, mobile inspection teams were deployed in Kampong Cham province to ...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/31384/mobile-vehicle-checkpoints-start/
Trucks rerouted from flooded Nat’l Road 4
Kampong Speu provincial authorities yesterday issued an order banning heavy trucks from using National Road 4 in Phnom Sruoch district’s Maha Saing commune in response to heavy flooding in the area. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/trucks-rerouted-flooded-natl-road-4
China gives $2 billion for roads, bridge
The visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping last week resulted in loan agreements worth almost $2 billion for road infrastructure development in Cambodia, the Ministry of Public Works and Transport said on Friday. According to Transport Minister Sun Chanthol, the money will be used to ...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/30849/china-gives--2-billion-for-roads--bridge/
Transport Ministry collects $500K in fines over 5 months
Some 500 overloaded trucks have been stopped and collectively fined more than $300,000 by the Ministry of Public Works and Transport in the past five months. According to a series of reports by the ministry, inspection stations across the country collected a total of $310,000 from ...
Touch Sokha
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/transport-ministry-collects-500k-fines-over-5-months
Promised Areng road will bring logging: org
Activists from environmental group Mother Nature yesterday cautioned that a proposed road pledged by Prime Minister Hun Sen for the Areng Valley could cause an increase in illegal logging and drug abuse. ...
Lay Samean
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/promised-areng-road-will-bring-logging-org
Phnom Penh municipality mulls new sky bridge
City Hall is in the midst of conducting preliminary studies to assess the feasibility of building either an overpass or an underground tunnel at the Chaom Chao roundabout in an effort to ease traffic congestion in the area. ...
Touch Sokha
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/phnom-penh-municipality-mulls-new-sky-bridge
City hall announces development plans for new road
City Hall yesterday announced the preparation of infrastructure for a controversial road construction project in the Boeung Kak area near the Alserkal Grand Mosque, the largest mosque in the Kingdom, to avoid traffic jams and flooding in the area. The pilot project, inveiled in 2012, plans ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/29502/city-hall-announces-development-plans-for-new-road/
Ministry explains tax hikes on heavy transportation vehicles
The Ministry of Economy and Finance on Monday sought to explain a recent hefty increase in taxes imposed on heavy transportation vehicles, saying it was prompted by a need to support infrastructure maintenance expenditures and cover the elimination of taxes on vehicles smaller than 150cc. ...
Lay Samean
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-explains-tax-hikes-heavy-transportation-vehicles
Chroy changvar bridge to close for repairs
The Cambodia-Japan Friendship Bridge will close for repairs early next year after structural damage was discovered last year, City Hall announced yesterday. City Hall spokesman Mean Chanyada said: “We will close the bridge for 22 months to make repairs starting from early January 2017.” ...
Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/28345//
Plans for Mondolkiri road on hold, minister tells EU
Interior Minister Sar Kheng informed European Ambassador George Edgar on Tuesday that plans to construct a controversial road and border checkpoint that would have cut straight through the Mondolkiri Protected Forest had been suspended. ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/plans-mondolkiri-road-hold-minister-tells-eu-116533/
Overloaded truck figures dip: ministry
The Ministry of Public Works and Transportation yesterday announced that 75 fewer drivers had been fined for overloaded trucks last month compared to June, attributing the decline to recent crackdowns. ...
Lay Samean
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/overloaded-truck-figures-dip-ministry
Ministry scolds South Korean firm
Sun Chanthol, senior minister and minister of Public Works and Transport, met with the president of Dansan Consultants on Friday to talk about the lack of safety signs on a construction site on National Road 21 that allegedly caused two deaths in a traffic accident. ...
Tin Sokhavuth
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/28162/ministry-scolds-south-korean-firm/
JICA moots city transit system
The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) is helping Cambodia conduct a feasibility study on an automated gateway transit system (AGT) to overcome Phnom Penh’s daily gridlock, caused by traffic congestion, during peak hours. Hideaki Wase, an urban transportation advisor in JICA, told Khmer Times yesterday that ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/28026/jica-moots-city-transit-system/
Campaign to reduce traffic accidents
The government launched a campaign yesterday to distribute 3.4 million pieces of reflective tape in an effort to reduce traffic accidents at night, with Prime Minister Hun Sen ordering officials and party members to give the tape out for free and threatening to arrest anyone ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/27981/campaign-to-reduce-traffic-accidents/
Fatal bridge accident in Kandal prompts inquiry
Cambodian government officials have opened an investigation into accusations that Hanshin, a Korean construction company, breached contract by failing to follow safety regulations after two brothers were killed when they drove off an unfinished bridge in a Hanshin construction zone last week. ...
Kong Meta and Andrew Nachemson
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/fatal-bridge-accident-kandal-prompts-inquiry
Korean firm violated its contract: Minister
Sun Chanthol, the Minister of Public Works and Transport, said last week that Hanshin Engineering and Construction Company, a Korean firm that won the contract to improve National Road 21, violated the contract with the government by hiring a subcontractor to do the job. ...
Tin Sokhavuth
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/27873/korean-firm-violated--its-contract--minister/
Thai transport quotas to rise
Cambodia and five other countries that share the Mekong River have agreed to open their borders to more commercial truck and tourist bus traffic as part of a transnational agreement aimed at promoting regional logistics and tourism, a senior transport official said yesterday. ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/thai-transport-quotas-rise
Finish date announced for National Rd 1 work
Upgrades to National Road 1 are expected to be completed by March 2017, according to the Ministry of Public Works and Transport. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/finish-date-announced-national-rd-1-work
New Pailin-Koh Kong road planned
A new road linking Pailin province to the coastal province of Koh Kong has been planned, according to the Ministry of Public Works and Transportation, aimed at helping agricultural products from the northern provinces reach sea ports quicker. ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/27093/new-pailin-koh-kong-road-planned/
Government blames development company for road collapse
A government investigation into the collapse of a road next to Phnom Penh’s Olympic Stadium during a flash flood on Wednesday has concluded that a powerful development company’s adjacent construction site was at fault, officials said on Thursday. ...
Ouch Sony
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/government-blames-development-company-for-road-collapse-113923/
Tunnels, overpasses to be built in capital
A section of road built beneath the ground and a renovated Kbal Thnal overpass may be on the way for the capital’s drivers, according to Phnom Penh Governor Pa Socheatevong, although other officials close to the projects say construction could start as early as next ...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/25863/tunnels--overpasses-to-be-built-in-capital/