Thursday, December 9, 2010

Asian road trip


I have just completed the quintessential Asian road trip - a 600km (375 mile) blast up Thailand's highyway 1 in a honda civic, from the centre of the rice belt to northern Thailand's largest city Chiang Mai.

Whilst the driving style at times reminds you that most Thais believe in reincarnation and that some are very eager to prove the theory the road is in most parts without fault.

At between 4 and 8 lanes wide and a dual carriage way it makes Australia's (and I am assuming the USA's) highway 1 look like a goat track. If the west is even to tread water we need to keep up with the pace of Asia's export supporting infrastructure projects. This highway shows what a few hundred million dollars can achieve, unlike the US the Thais aren't throwing money at banks that should have been let fail, they are building their future, not papering over the errors of the past.

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