Bukit Bunga Ban Buketa Bridge
Coordinates: 5 ° 50 ′ 20 " N , 101 ° 53 ′ 33" E
| Bukit Bunga Ban Buketa Bridge | ||
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| Crossing of | Golok | |
| place | Bukit Bunga , Kelantan , Malaysia; Buketa , Narathiwat Province , Thailand | |
| construction | Box girder bridge | |
| overall length | 120 m | |
| building-costs | 9.2 million ringgits | |
| start of building | 2004 | |
| completion | 2007 | |
| opening | December 21, 2007 | |
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The Bukit-Bunga-Ban-Buketa Bridge (Malay: Jambatan Bukit Bunga-Ban Buketa, Thai: สะพาน บู เก๊ะ ตา) is a two-lane road bridge that spans the Golok on the Malaysian-Thai border. The bridge connects the village of Bukit Bunga in the Malaysian state of Kelantan with the village (Ban) Buketa in the district of Waeng in the Thai province of Narathiwat . It is the newest bridge between Thailand and Malaysia and the second bridge over the Golok. The project was one of the cooperation projects of the Indonesia – Malaysia – Thailand Growth Triangle (IMT-GT).
The bridge cost around 9.2 million ringgit , with both countries paying half each and the contract awarded to a Malaysian company. The groundbreaking ceremony for the bridge was carried out on October 14, 2004 by the prime ministers of the two countries. However, further construction had to be postponed for almost three years because unrest in Thai regions made construction impossible. The actual construction took only eleven months and the bridge was opened on December 21, 2007 by Prime Ministers Abdullah Ahmad Badawi and Surayud Chulanont . In 2016 the construction of another bridge between Malaysia and Thailand was announced.