Don Mueang Tollway

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Don Mueang Tollway (Thai: ทาง ยก ระดับ อุตราภิมุข, Thang Yokradap Uttaraphimuk, " Uttaraphimuk high street ") is a toll highway in Bangkok, which is designed as a high street.

General

This city highway begins in the south at the end of the northern arm of the Chaloem Maha Nakhon Expressway in the north and ends just behind the former Don Mueang International Airport in the suburb of Rangsit in Pathum Thani province. The route follows the Thanon Vibhavadi Rangsit above which this highway is located. Their total length is 28.1 km. She has three lanes in each direction. The name Uttaraphimuk got the street of King Bhumibol Adulyadej, this means in Sanskrit ( uttarabhimukha ) " in the north leader ".

It is operated by the private Don Muang Tollway Co. Ltd.. , Which holds a concession for 27 years. This writing from the beginning in the red. Reasons to be a free and fairly well -developed Thanon Vibhavadi Rangsit below the toll road and the relocation of Don Mueang International Airport to Suvarnabhumi Airport. Therefore, already the concession was extended by eleven years.

Events

In August 2011, this toll road got into the news because of the insolvency administrator of Walter Bau AG, a Boeing 737, which is used by the Thai Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn personally, the German judiciary 's view, however, belongs to the Royal Thai Air Force, was repossessing at Munich Airport. Walter Bau was the successor to one of the companies involved in the construction of the high-range in the joint venture. The seizure was the enforcement of an open for 20 years requirement of € 30 million for the construction of the Don Mueang Tollway against the Thai state.