TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2007
The Saigon Times
Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Sinh Hung has approved in principle a project to build an expressway linking Can Tho City of Vietnam and Phnom Penh of Cambodia. Can Tho and An Giang Province will work together to select the investment plan and investors for the project.
10 comments:
Yep, any free road are welcome! Don't call us, let us call you instead.
hmm ... I don't know if we need 6 lanes highway at this moment. Maybe we could expanded it later as we go. It is better to use the money for something else for now.
What are the better way and the shortest distance for the Vietcong to drive their tanks straight to Phnom Phen! Ahhahahhah!
110-kilometer highway= $1.8 billion
There are so many unanswered questions about this project! Out of the blue and boom $1.8 billon dirt poor Cambodian people will be in debt! Even a fraction of $1.8 is still too much debt!
Cambodia Debt - external: $3.664 billion (2006 est.))http://www.indexmundi.com/cambodia/debt_external.html
I see so little economic and cultural benefit from this highway project! The less Cambodia disengages from the Vietcong the better Cambodia will be! There are too many political and economic manipulations externally and internally by the Vietcong government! This is the last thing on Earth that Cambodian people want!
Any Cambodian economic or cultural cooperation with the Vietcong and the Cambodian people will one day find themselves outnumber and will be chased out just like the Khmer Krom people in Khmer Kampuchea Krom(Southern Vietname)!
The French did a good job in connecting Cambodia with Vietname and now look what happen! Cambodian people don't need American to do the same as the French because it would be a repeat tragedy all over again and if this happen again and very bad things can happen because Cambodia represent the last stand for Khmer people! Please don't turn Cambodia into another WOUNDED KNEE like the American Indian!
When Cambodia has the capability to protect itself and the Vietcong are welcome anytime!
What are you talking about, 5:49? Clearly the US company is ripping us off with the 110km road for 1.8billion USD. That is 30+ times average price in Asia. The price should be only about $500k-$600k/km for a 6 lanes DBST road.
To 5:58PM
I agree that it is costing too much!
Here is something to think about!
"How much does it cost per mile to build a new lane of highway?
It depends on where you are, and factors such as land costs, people or businesses to relocate, environmental needs arising from construction such as noise walls for neighbors and storm water cleaning for streams and wetlands. It also depends on the elements in the project - are we just building a road, or are new bridges or interchanges also included?
Here's a sampling of project construction costs:
SR 18 widening in rural King County - about $24.5 million per mile.
US 12 widening south of Tri Cities - about $3.7 million per mile.
I-5 widening in Vancouver – about $20.2 million per mile.
I-90 truck climbing lanes east of Cle Elum and at Vantage – about $1 million per mile.
I-5 HOV lanes from Tukwila to Fife – about $7 million per mile."
http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/accountability/2005GasTax/QandA.htm
Youn leaders now start to act as de facto sole owner of Indochina Federation. Colonialist Youn must stop this game. Go home Viet Minh!!! Why others ASEAN countries do not behave as Youn Ho chi Minh??? Imperialist, neocolonialist youns go home!!!
11:22, we are talking a simple 6 lanes DBST road, no wall, no tunnel, bridges .... Plus, we are talking Asian cost of living. I mean the materials and labors over here are dirt cheap, not like in the US. Frankly, I am not aware of us spending more $100k/km for DBST road anywhere in Indochina.
To 4:03AM!
Listen! I know that Cambodia is a dirt poor country! Ok! Tell me, what is to poor mean? For example, it may not be too poor to spend $50,000 on a luxury sedan for some people but for some people it would be too much! What do you expect? Uncle SAM came from a very rich country called the U.S.A.
Beside you don't even know what will go over or underneath the road such as bridges, tunnels, sewage systems, fiber optic, electrical transmission lines...which cost more money to add on in a later date and the long run and if they do everything from beginning it would be expensive now but it will pay off in the long run!
I had seen how it is done! If something is going to be build and it must build to last such as Angkor Wat! If you don't build to last and it is just a waste of fucken energy and money and get a bad reputation for being unqualified!
8:46, by poor we mean the AVERAGE people is poor. We don't look at the few exception.
Anyway, we don't have any reliability issue with the road that we newly build today, and there is no no sewage mentioned anywhere among other things. During the monsoon, part of the road will be flooded as usual ... .
In any case, poor people should not try to live beyond their mean. It is immoral.
It is kind of stupid to build road over the geography that is flooded! This is called stupidity! Fuck the monsoon and man can conquer over nature!
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