JICA updates 2040 plan for Yangon development
JICA updates 2040 plan for Yangon development
Myanmar Times, 04 Jan 2017
URL: http://www.mmtimes.com/index.php/business/24405-jica-updates-2040-plan-for-yangon-development.html
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.