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JICA updates 2040 plan for Yangon development

By Myat Nyein Aye   |   Wednesday, 04 January 2017 

The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has handed over an updated version of its 2040 master plan for Yangon’s development to the region government, which is waiting until it has received a bevy of other plans from other agencies before deciding which recommendations to adopt.

Yangon starts 2017 with a new 2040 master plan from JICA. Photo: EPA

Yasushi Tanaka, the director general for JICA’s Southeast Asia and Pacific Department, handed the summary report to Yangon Region Chief Minister U Phyo Min Thein in the final weeks of last year.

JICA first drafted the plan in 2012, but began amending it in the middle of 2016 at the request of the new government, Keiichiro Nakazawa, JICA’s chief representative in Myanmar, previously told The Myanmar Times.

The country’s largest city has changed massively since 2012, with worsening traffic among the main issues to have sprung up, according to JICA. The new version of the 2040 plan was supported by the Yangon Region Transport Authority (YRTA) and Yangon City Development Committee.

The final report includes a short-term plan for measures to be adopted by 2020, a mid-term plan for 2025 and long term for 2035.

There are 41 priority projects under the strategic urban development part of the 2040 plan, which JICA recommends be started by 2020, with reviews and updates for priority projects every five years.

JICA also said that it would be willing to support the priority plans, although officials at the agency could not be reached for comment on the details of these projects.

Under the urban transport development component, there are 96 projects and “nine strategic actions”, which include “bus modernisation, traffic management and safety management, Transit Oriented Development, and strengthening of YRTA”, JICA said.

The Yangon Region government is already tackling several of these. A modern bus system called “BRT Lite” – based on a JICA suggestion – was adopted in 2015, and the YRTA is in the process of expanding the system to new routes run by public-private partnership firms.

There have been campaigns to promote seatbelt use in the commercial capital and JICA is helping upgrade the city’s circular railway.

But the Yangon Region government needs to consider suggestions contained in other plans for the city’s development before deciding which of JICA’s projects to adopt, Daw Nilar Kyaw, regional minister of electricity, industry and transportation, told The Myanmar Times.

“We just received the JICA report but that does not mean we will adopt the proposals for the [region] government development plan because there are other countries also drawing up [plans] for Yangon’s development,” she said.

Daw Nilar Kyaw previously told The Myanmar Times the regional government was in discussions with JICA, KOICAf, France’s Agence Française de Développement and the UK’s Department for International Development in its effort to amalgamate various proposed projects into a single Yangon 2040 master plan.

She would not comment on further details of the updated JICA plan.

Yangon Region government officials told The Myanmar Times in December that they had received Union government approval for a second special economic zone near Yangon.

That project will also be connected to a new international airport and a southern seaport, according to region government MPs with knowledge of the plan.

Ref:http://www.mmtimes.com/index.php/business/24405-jica-updates-2040-plan-for-yangon-development.html

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Myanma Railways to upgrade circle line with Japanese loan

By Aye Nyein Win   |   Wednesday, 13 July 2016

State-owned Myanma Railways will receive US$200 million in development financing from Japan to upgrade Yangon’s circular railway line and has set an ambitious target of tripling commuter traffic, an official said yesterday.

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Every day 73,000 people use Yangon’s only train line, said Myanma Railways general manager U Htun Aung Thin. Once the railways are upgraded and new trains are running, he hopes this number can reach 263,000.

“By upgrading the route, crucially we can cut running times. It now takes 2 hours and 50 minutes for a train to complete the [46-kilometre or 28-mile] circuit, while stopping at 38 stations,” he

“We aim to reduce this to less than 2 hours. Trains can drive at 15 miles per hour at the moment but we hope to increase this to 26

Myanma Railways will also run more services, U Htun Aung Thin said. “Now commuters need to wait between 15 and 45 minutes to take the train, but we hope to reduce the wait to 10 or 12 minutes.”

Shorter wait times will be crucial to attract commuter traffic, which currently relies heavily on the city’s overstretched bus lines and congested roads.

Manual signaling will be replaced with automatic systems and Myanma Railways will buy 11 new six-carriage trains, U Htun Aung Thin said.

“We have signed an agreement to install automatic signals and to buy brand-new Diesel Electric Multiple Use (DEMU) carriages. Japan will give us a 24 billion yen ($206 million) overseas development assistance loan for that,” he added.

The Ministry of Transport and Communications will take charge of the project, which he hopes will be finished by June 2019, “depending on financing and the labour force”.

In the past, commuters relied on the circle line, but gradually they switched to buses, because the trains were old and did not run on time. Better trains will help relieve pressure on Yangon’s roads which have grown increasingly crowded over the past few years.

“Myanma Railways decided to upgrade the railway in collaboration with the Japan International Cooperation Agency study team,” U Htun Aung Thin said. JICA completed wide-reaching plans for urban development in Yangon in 2013 and 2014, including a transport master plan.

Finding the right fares will be important, he added. “We charge K100 per ticket regardless of the type of train. Because of this our earnings have fallen from K8 million to K7 million per day. So we need to consider all aspects of running the railway.

Ref:http://www.mmtimes.com/index.php/business/21362-myanma-railways-to-upgrade-yangon-circle-line-with-japanese-loan.html

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