Don Mueang Tollway
Coordinates: 13 ° 52 ′ 47 " N , 100 ° 34 ′ 44" E
| Don Mueang Tollway ทาง ยก ระดับ อุตราภิมุข Thang Yokradap Uttaraphimuk |
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| Official name | Uttaraphimuk Elevated Tollway | |
| use | City motorway ( elevated road ) | |
| place | Bangkok , Thailand | |
| Entertained by | Don Muang Tollway Co. Ltd. | |
| construction | Girder bridge | |
| overall length | 28.1 km | |
| height | approx. 14 meters | |
| building-costs | ~ $ 51 million | |
| completion | 1994 | |
| opening | December 1994 | |
| toll | Yes | |
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The Don Mueang Tollway ( Thai : ทาง ยกระดับ อุตราภิมุข , Thang Yokradap Uttaraphimuk , "Uttaraphimuk-Hochstraße") is a toll city highway in Bangkok , which is designed as an elevated road .
Routing and operation
This urban highway begins on the northern arm of the Chaloem Maha Nakhon Expressway in the south and ends in the north just past the former Don Mueang International Airport in the suburb of Rangsit in Pathum Thani Province . It runs above the Thanon Vibhavadi Rangsit and follows its route. The elevated road has three lanes in both directions, its total length is 28.1 km. The name Uttaraphimuk - Sanskrit uttarabhimukha means "leading to the north" - was given to the street by King Bhumibol Adulyadej .
It is operated by the private Don Muang Tollway Co. Ltd., which has a 27-year concession. This was in the red from the start. On the one hand, the so-called superhighway Thanon Vibhavadi Rangsit below the toll road is well developed and can be used free of charge, and on the other hand, the international airport has now moved from Don Mueang to Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi Airport . The license has therefore already been extended by eleven years.
Special events
In August 2011, this toll route got into the news due to a legal act.
The insolvency administrator of Walter Bau AG had a Boeing 737 seized at Munich Airport , which the then Thai Crown Prince and today's King Maha Vajiralongkorn personally used, but whose owner, according to the German judiciary, was the Thai Air Force . Walter Bau was the successor to one of the companies involved in the joint venture to build the elevated line. The seizure served to enforce a claim of 30 million euros that an international arbitration tribunal in Switzerland had awarded Walter Bau AG against the Thai state in 2009.
Individual evidence
- ↑ tollway.co.th Route and information ( Memento of the original from November 14, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ UNESCAP: Don Mueang Tollway p.24f ( Memento of the original from November 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 2.1 MB)
- ↑ der-farang.com: Don Muang Tollway Co. can operate Hochstrasse 11 more years , accessed on January 14, 2012.
- ↑ The saga of the Thai prince jet comes to an end. In: NZZ. August 10, 2011.
