PHIPHAT INSISTS PATONG TUNNEL DELAYS WILL BE 'ONLY MINIMAL'

Local residents, business leaders and elected officials have united in one of the strongest calls yet for the government to finally break ground on the long-promised Patong Tunnel project, warning that decades of delays have left Phuket's primary west-coast access route dangerously overstretched and unworthy of an island marketed worldwide as a premier tourist destination.

- The Phuket News

The show of force began on Patong Hill on Nov 4, when former Patong Mayor Chalermsak Maneesri led a gathering of local residents demanding that construction of the Patong Tunnel proceed immediately after nearly 30 years of stalled studies, revised designs and shifting policy directions.