UN-backed Asian Highway links St. Petersburg to Singapore
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Vast UN-backed Asian Highway moves ahead to link St. Petersburg to Singapore
15 December 2005 – Major upgrading projects and funding needs were identified today for the United Nations-backed 140,000-kilometre Asian Highway Network that will link the vast region from St. Petersburg to Singapore and Seoul to Istanbul, facilitating trade and tourism and opening up landlocked countries.
Transport officials from 32 countries met in Bangkok at the first session of the Working Group on the Asian Highway following the entry into force of the Intergovernmental Agreement on the project in July.
Around $25 billion of investment is already committed, but an estimated $18 billion is still needed to improve the routes About 22,000 kilometres or 15.7 per cent of the network does not meet the minimum desirable standards set up by the Agreement.
The participants reviewed the current status of the network and deliberated on promoting investment, updating the database and improving road safety.
The Agreement, the first treaty developed under the auspices of UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), requires its parties to make every possible effort to comply with the minimum desirable standards both in constructing new routes and in upgrading and modernizing existing ones.
In a complementary move last month, ESCAP members laid the groundwork for the Trans-Asian Railway (TAR), a potential network of over 80,000 kilometres of rail routes linking 27 Member States. -
wow... does it mean one of these days, i can actually drive all the way to St Petersburg?
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just one problem
left hand drive or right hand drive?
different country, different traffic rules
big headache -
This is definitely interesting
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Porsche Club did a drive up to Beijing before right?
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Porche suspension system must be pretty goodOriginally posted by LazerLordz:Porsche Club did a drive up to Beijing before right?
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oh...so nice mate...great news so we can speed for longer distance
will it connect to the NS highway? -
actually the NS highway is a pretty good idea
but the darn thing is the toll fee and the number of toll booths on the stretch of highway from Sultan Abu Bakar checkpoint to JB -
but the good news that on the way to say penang u only have to stop 2 times for the ticket and pay.....Originally posted by laurence82:actually the NS highway is a pretty good idea
but the darn thing is the toll fee and the number of toll booths on the stretch of highway from Sultan Abu Bakar checkpoint to JB
hope the asian highway will have speed limit of 220km/h.... -
Do you think there any workshops along the way to St. Petersburg qualified to service a Scooby? Every 5,000 km would be nice....
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Well, it's not a physical highway, but more of the linkages and improving the connecting roads between national main highways.
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lets hope it will be Asia's second Autobahn...no speed limit...pray pray for tat
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ok, singapore and malaysia is right hand drive, china is the oppositeOriginally posted by LazerLordz:Well, it's not a physical highway, but more of the linkages and improving the connecting roads between national main highways.
how? -
most nations allow foreign cars in, even if they are of a diff LHD/RHD config.Originally posted by laurence82:ok, singapore and malaysia is right hand drive, china is the opposite
how? -
Well NS Highway maybe it is follow something like SG's ERP, maybe it would be betterOriginally posted by laurence82:actually the NS highway is a pretty good idea
but the darn thing is the toll fee and the number of toll booths on the stretch of highway from Sultan Abu Bakar checkpoint to JB
Left hand drive and right hand drive got prob? See France and UK and HK and Shenzhen example -
I think there should be no problem regarding LHD or RHD. Just more of understanding each other's traffic rules & regulations?Originally posted by sbst275:Well NS Highway maybe it is follow something like SG's ERP, maybe it would be better
Left hand drive and right hand drive got prob? See France and UK and HK and Shenzhen example -
hw r they actually gonna link st petersburg n sg?
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Overland road from Xinjiang to Eastern Russia..Originally posted by alwaysdisturbed:hw r they actually gonna link st petersburg n sg? -
y the link?Originally posted by LazerLordz:Overland road from Xinjiang to Eastern Russia..
for ppl to drive up? -
I think it's to improve flow of people and goodsOriginally posted by alwaysdisturbed:y the link?
for ppl to drive up?
Facilitate economic progression? -
i tink it'll create more jams n fustrations...Originally posted by deathscythe99:I think it's to improve flow of people and goods
Facilitate economic progression?
n its nt economically feasible? its cheaper n faster to go by freight services? correct me if i'm wrong.