Out of the blue, the Anutin government has made an abrupt policy U-turn by announcing it will abandon the 1-trillion-baht Land Bridge project.
The reversal follows an official review that found the original project carried significant financial risks and uncertain economic returns. Yet the mega-infrastructure scheme has long been controversial, raising the question of why the government ignored repeated warnings and previous studies, or failed to conduct its own review before promoting the project so aggressively at home and abroad.
