Over 190 out of 200 bridges in Meiktila-Kalaw road are built and the company is using more workers and machinery to complete the remaining bridges in the open season, said Tun Tun Lin, construction director of Robust Goal Group of Companies (High Land Road Construction Co. Ltd.).
The company had been granted to build Meiktila-Kalaw-Taunggyi road under 40-year agreement with BOT system and the opening ceremony of Kalaw-Taunggyi road is held on May 1.
The road is about 500 miles in length and passed Meiktila, Kalaw, Taunggyi, Hopone, Loilin, Nantsan, Takaw, Kengtong and Techilek, according to Road Department.
A 45-mile long Kalaw-Taunggyi road, a section of Meiktila-Taunggyi-Kengtong-Kalaw road, is finished and a 17-mile long Nantpantat-Kalaw road is left to build.
Only six out of 200 bridges are left to build in that section of road and the biggest bridge which is left to build is a 40-meter length bridge near Makway Village. The cost of a mile long road is over Ks1.7 billion and if the road has many bends, it will cost more and the expense will be over Ks2 billion per mile.
