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Yangon Circular Railways

The Yangon Circular Railway Line Upgrading Project aims to modernize the Yangon Circular Railway in Myanmar. It will replace deteriorating rolling stock, signals, and equipment to increase efficiency, capacity, safety and comfort of transportation services. This will help address urban transportation problems like road congestion by facilitating a shift from cars to rail. The project will be implemented from 2015-2020 by Myanma Railways to improve public transportation in the growing city of Yangon.

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Yangon Circular Railways

The Yangon Circular Railway Line Upgrading Project aims to modernize the Yangon Circular Railway in Myanmar. It will replace deteriorating rolling stock, signals, and equipment to increase efficiency, capacity, safety and comfort of transportation services. This will help address urban transportation problems like road congestion by facilitating a shift from cars to rail. The project will be implemented from 2015-2020 by Myanma Railways to improve public transportation in the growing city of Yangon.

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(1) Yangon Circular Railway Line Upgrading Project

(a) Background and Necessity


Yangon, which is the former capital of Myanmar, is the country’s largest commercial
city with a population of approximately 5.21 million people. As the center of economic
activity, Yangon has undergone a rapid population increase in recent years, and
according to the Strategic Urban Development Plan of the Greater Yangon, the
population is expected to top 9.5 million by 2035. To address urban transportation
problems such as road congestion,, there is a need to update and rehabilitate the public
transportation network to make it more user-friendly and environmentally-friendly.
The Yangon Circular Railway Line, managed and operated by Myanma Railways, has
38 stations on a route approximately 46 kilometers in length. Established by the United
Kingdom in the colonial period, the train system currently operates 122 trains each day.
However, the deteriorated state of the facilities, equipment and rolling stock causes
reduced travel speeds, train delays, derailments, accidents and other operational
problems.
Moreover, rail has a low ridership, providing a mere one percent of the public
transportation services within Yangon. Most residents use cars and public buses on
roads with severe road congestion. The rail services on the Yangon Circular Railway
Line need to be improved for safety and comfort by replacing of the rolling stock and
rehabilitating the rail safety equipment so as to facilitate a modal shift from cars to rail
transportation.

(b) Objectives and Summary


This project will replace and improve the deteriorating rolling stock, railway signal
system and other equipment toward modernizing the Yangon Circular Railway,
increasing the efficiency and capacity to transport passengers while improving the safety
and comfort of public transportation services, thereby simulating socioeconomic activities
in the Yangon metropolitan area.

(c) Executing agency


Myanma Railways, Ministry of Rail Transportation
Address: Nay Pyi Taw Central station, Pobba Thiri Township, Nay Pyi Taw,
Phone: +95-67-77024

(d) Planned implementation schedule


(i) Completion of project: April 2020 – when the facilities are put into service
(ii) Issuing of letters of invitation for consulting services: November 2015
(iii) Tender announcement of initial procurement package for international competitive
bidding on project construction: October 2016

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