Thursday, July 24, 2008

How our bridge would work!

NOW

A tractor is too big for the bridge on Lam-Hin side(Liab-Wa-Ree17) so it has to go in on a truck from Su-Ka-Thong side (Liab-Wa-Ree19) and each time a rice-grower has to pay 500baht entrance fee to the Su-Ka-Thong landlord.

Because of the small size of a rice carrier, a rice-grower can have it cross the first bridge on Lam-Hin side to his/her field in order to avoid the cost on an entrance fee.

The farmers use the tractor to harvest and fill rice into a bag then use the rice-carrier to take bags out from the field to the other truck that parks on Liab-Wa-Ree17 Road...not efficient at all!

In addition, there are some rice-growers who do not have a rice-carrier or an access to their fields through the first bridge that belongs to the school owner. These people have to carry bags filled with rice and walk across other bridges themselves.


IN THE FUTURE (HOPEFULLY)

The tractor and the truck would get in from Liab-Wa-Ree17 through the second bridge to the rice field. Rice-growers would then be able to harvest and fill in the truck with rice right away, not having to use rice-carriers or anyone carrying bags anymore...a lot more efficient!

1 comment:

Aong said...

Talking about efficiency, is it possible to estimate how much the Lam-Hin community could benefit from the new bridge (additional social welfare)?

Yes, we now know that everybody wants the bridge, but are we so sure that their higher productivity (reduction in transportation cost) is worth for, or could overcome, the cost of the bridge?

I know it is in your first step, general information collection. If you guys have studied this point, then I'd love to learn more. :D

Thank you, jub jub...