Patong residents plea against forced evictions for B6bn tunnel

Tanyaluk Sakoot

 

 

PHUKET:-- Hundreds of residents from Patong and from Kathu have called for the right to keep their homes instead of having their lands expropriated by law to make way for the decades-in-coming Patong Tunnel, which at last report was estimated to cost taxpayers B6 billion.

 

The plea came at public-feedback meetings held in Patong yesterday (Aug 22) and repeated at the Kathu Municipality offices today (Aug 23).

 

The meetings were organised by the Expressway Authority of Thailand (EXAT), which has been tasked with developing the project, as part of the legal requirement for pubic feedback to be sought and considered in filing for the project’s Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) application.

 

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I think they are relatively safe in their houses for years to come.

Tunnel ?? in your dreams ...

 

They can't even build a Chalong underpass .... 

Yet another group being paid for preliminary studies.

1 hour ago, Valentine said:

Yet another group being paid for preliminary studies.

I think the local officials long ago learned that there's a lot of money to be made from skimming the payments for study after study. No need to actually build anything, just keep commissioning studies.

They keep talking about this as if it is actually going to happen.

 

https://www.phuketgazette.net/news/patong-tunnel-start-aprilmay-next-year

And like in the underpasses motorbikes will be prohibited from using the tunnel?