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Hat Yai construction and transport report – 2025 edition
Oct 06, 2025

Hat Yai construction and transport report – 2025 edition

Turning Hat Yai into a great southern metropolis, apartment living comes to Hat Yai city, the tallest building in Southern Thailand, the Hat Yai Monorail plan, Hat Yai-Songkhla Railway revival, and double-tracking the railway to the border.

James Clark
James Clark
ThailandThailand
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Chiang Mai construction and transport report – 2025 edition
Sep 28, 2025

Chiang Mai construction and transport report – 2025 edition

The big Night Bazaar redevelopment, turning the old women’s prison into a park, an unusual abandoned mall waiting for a developer, a modern apartment tower in a potential future hotspot, the light rail plan, the two airports plan, and waterway rehabilitation.

James Clark
James Clark
ThailandThailand
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Chiang Mai Metro System – Reviewing the routes of the 3 proposed transit lines
Sep 14, 2025

Chiang Mai Metro System – Reviewing the routes of the 3 proposed transit lines

Chiang Mai is planning to build a 3-line urban rail transit system that will be the first provincial subway in Thailand. I visited the locations of every station of the proposed first line, and I reviewed the routes of the other lines. I also propose to turn one line into a circle line.

James Clark
James Clark
ThailandThailand
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Pattaya construction and transport report
Apr 14, 2025

Pattaya construction and transport report

Trip report from January 2025: Walkability and bad street layouts, Pattaya construction notes, the ghost tower, future high-speed railway and monorail, Jomtien Beach as a future apartment hotspot, and air quality

James Clark
James Clark
ThailandThailand
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Sri Racha Trip Report
Mar 30, 2025

Sri Racha Trip Report

The Little Osaka of Thailand, bad design of Sukhumvit Road (like Bangkok), seaview apartments (shame about the beach), and the future high-speed railway to 3 airports.

James Clark
James Clark
ThailandThailand
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Phitsanulok trip report
Jun 06, 2023
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Phitsanulok trip report

The provincial city with a preposterous plan for a 5-line mass transit system, and how the proposed high-speed rail to Chiang Mai could transform its fortunes.

James Clark
James Clark
ThailandThailand
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Pattaya trip report
Mar 07, 2023
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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.

James Clark
James Clark
ThailandThailand
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Thoughts on Thai trains while waiting for the Chiang Mai-Bangkok airlift
Feb 21, 2023

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.

James Clark
James Clark
ThailandThailand
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How to fix Bangkok's urban rail transit system
Nov 01, 2022

How to fix Bangkok's urban rail transit system

An open letter to Bangkok governor Chadchart Sittipunt with a summary of the best ways to improve Bangkok's urban rail transit system.

James Clark
James Clark
ThailandThailand
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How the Bangkok 3-airport high-speed railway will change travel in Thailand
Apr 28, 2020
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How the Bangkok 3-airport high-speed railway will change travel in Thailand

Blue skies in Jakarta and Manila, and a new opera house for Ho Chi Minh City.

James Clark
James Clark
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