As dragonz mentioned earlier, the heaviest traffic flows are to/from the ring road/Nongkhai and that would have been better and less expensively served by a 4-lane, dog-legged flyover and no under/overpasses. As it stands now, only the heavy southbound traffic from Nongkhai benefits from a wider, uninterrupted left turn whereas the equally busy contraflow still has traffic lights to contend with. If memory serves me correctly, north-bound, right-turning traffic traffic was pretty much a beast most of the time and especially at peak times and filtering the ~15% of straight-through traffic onto the flyover isn't going to make much difference IMHO. Maybe the 'savings' are in the fact that they probably won't need to resurface the underpass and overpass so often?jackspratt wrote: ↑November 20, 2019, 10:21 amThanks for the heads-up, parrot.
This should be a huge improvement for traffic movement at that major intersection. Just as the tunnel in Pattaya has proved to be.
But that hasn't stopped the whinging farangs from piling in - seems our hosts can't do anything right.
PS: That Pattaya tunnel gets you from the Highway 7 traffic lights to the South Pattaya traffic lights about 8 seconds faster... and then you wait again. Admittedly, the top-side traffic management in and out of Central Pattaya and the dark-side is easier.
The whole nation is on a overpass/underpass building fad with Phuket, Chiang Mai and Korat hell bent on the construction of super impressive but disproportionately expensive 'solutions' to non-existent traffic management. Get yours while you can!