Phuket Poll: Build the Kra Canal

The Phuket News

 

An artist’s impression to highlight the scale of the Kra Canal shows Bangkok’s famous Rama IX Bridge crossing the proposed waterway. Construction of the Kra Canal is projected to generate US$300 billion in its first 10 years. Image: Courtesy of Pakdee Tanapura

 

PHUKET: More than 70% of respondents to an online poll by The Phuket News have called for the Thai government to go ahead and build the highly debated Kra Canal.

 

The poll, which ran for two weeks and closed last night (Feb 26), was posted after international reports by state-owned news agencies in Malaysia and Singapore attempted to counter the forward momentum for the project.

 

Those reports were published after The Phuket News posted its story presenting arguments in favour of the canal put forward by two key figures of the Thai Canal Association for Study and Development – Royal Thai Navy Adm (Rtd) Soopakorn Boonranadiloak and Pakdee Tanapura.

 

Full story: https://www.thephuketnews.com/phuket-poll-build-the-kra-canal-66131.php

 

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I'm an advocate for the building of the canal, but truth be known, if it was given the go ahead today, I would still be long dead before the first spade of dirt is turned.

Such a project could set new records for the amount of money required for talk fest committees, ecological studies, land acquisition, bridge building talks. etc., etc,.

Just deciding the route could take ten years. 

If the same planners and construction company currently “working” on the Chalong underpass were to be awarded the contract no one not even infants born today would be alive to see the opening of the canal. 

Use the Chinese engineers building the high speed train to Korat and the Thai guys that are doing the work. They are doing a fine job.