A combined road/rail bridge could put an end to Samui Airport’s stranglehold on the island. Numerous new railway proposals in Thailand have been made over the years. Some of them are now being built (such as the railway to Chiang Rai), while some of them are too radical to be true (such as this Hanoi – Luang […]
Krung Thep Aphiwat Central Terminal (Bang Sue Grand Station)
Bang Sue Grand Station (officially known as Krung Thep Aphiwat Central Terminal) is the new central railway station of Bangkok. The station will be the terminus for all current long-distance rail services and future high-speed railways, and through-trains for the SRT commuter lines and 3-airport HSR line. It is also connected to the mass transit […]
Shwe Kokko New City: A casino city in Myanmar on the Thailand border
Shwe Kokko New City is a planned new urban area and casino city in Myanmar. The development is at the township of Shwe Kokko (also transliterated as Swe Koke Ko) on the Moei River, which forms the Myanmar-Thailand border. Shwe Kokko is about 25km by road north of Myawaddy, in the Myawaddy District of Kayin […]
Pattaya trip report
The proposed high-speed railway station, an urban railway from station to sea, demolishing the notorious Walking Street, and visiting the retirement beaches. Pattaya is the closest beach city to Bangkok (though not the closest beach), so it gets a lot of weekenders from Bangkok. I wasn’t planning on visiting this year, but then I saw a […]
Pattaya Station Redevelopment: High-speed railway and mixed-use project
Pattaya Station and the surrounding area will be redeveloped as part of the High-Speed Rail Linking Three Airports Project. Pattaya Station is on the Ban Phlu Ta Luang Main Line of the Eastern Line. The Ban Phlu Ta Luang Main Line is a metre-gauge railway operated with diesel locomotives, while the high-speed railway will be […]
Sangley Point International Airport
Sangley Point Airport (or Cavite Airport) is an airport at Sangley Point, Cavite City in the Philippines. Cavite is a province south of Metropolitan Manila, and the airport is currently used for domestic flights. The airport is set to be developed into an international airport. Its proximity to the National Capital Region area will make […]
Adaptive reuse in Southeast Asia
Adaptive reuse is when an existing building is reused for a purpose other than which it was originally built for. A typical example is an old warehouse that is turned into an art centre. Adaptive reuse is often associated with urban regeneration projects, where a redundant historic building becomes the centrepiece of the revitalised area. […]
Thoughts on Thai trains while waiting for the Chiang Mai-Bangkok airlift
The Bangkok-Chiang Mai air route flourishes, while there is no plan for the slow Northern Line train. The Bangkok-Chiang Mai air route is the second busiest in Thailand (after Bangkok-Phuket). I’ve flown many times between these two cities, which may surprise some people who pick me as a rail nerd. I’m an efficient transport nerd, […]
Koh Chang Bridge: the proposed bridge to connect the island to mainland Trat
The Koh Chang Bridge is a proposed bridge connecting the island of Koh Chang to the mainland in Trat province, Thailand. The proposal is for a 10-km sea bridge from Laem Ngob sub-district on the mainland to Ban Dan Kao on the island. Koh Chang is currently served by a car ferry that takes 30 […]
Current and proposed railways in Cambodia
Cambodia currently operates two railway lines from Phnom Penh to Sihanoukville and Poipet. The lines are single-track metre-gauge railways using diesel locomotives. The services are among the slowest in Southeast Asia, but if the government goes ahead with its modernisation plan it may be among the fastest. There are plans to upgrade the two current […]
