Businesses keen on roads along border with Burma | Bangkok Post: business

TRANSPORT

Business leaders in the country's central region are pushing for more road development along the 2,193-kilometre border with Burma linking Chiang Rai to Chumphon without running through Bangkok and surrounding cities.

Sing Tangcharoenchaichana, who heads the Federation of Thai Industries (FTI) in the central region, said members there were now working with government agencies to push forward a road construction project covering several provinces: Chiang Rai, Chiang Mai, Mae Hong Son, Tak, Kamphaeng Phet, Nakhon Sawan, Uthai Thani, Suphan Buri, Kanchanaburi, Ratchaburi, Phetchaburi, Prachuap Khiri Khan, and Chumphon.

The proposed road development is meant to attract industries to expand in the area, improving income distribution to those provinces and lifting Thailand's competitiveness in trade, investment, tourism and employment, he said.