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01-12-2011, 08:00 PM
mrEngineer,
When I was going through the slides presented by CapitaLand, I started to recall what I saw when I last visited Chongqing and the 3 Gorges on the Yangtze on a cruise ship. The water level that year was super high. I also recalled a past incident in Australia, where a nice piece of land at a vista point along a certain river, was nearly all washed away after a massive flood in the area. So I started to imagine what could happen in a worst flooding situation.
For a land site that is surrounded by water on 3 sides, by intuition we can imagine vehicular traffic and the bulk of the human traffic can only come the land side joining the peninsula - this will likely lead to congestion problems. I also imagine constructing a huge project at the top of a high wall on the tip of a peninsula should be more difficult - including the logistics - bearing in mind Chongqing is a 山城.
I am quite sure the people at CapitaLand have done their homework, and hopefully they have gone deep enough into the 'imponderables' in their project evaluation.
When I was going through the slides presented by CapitaLand, I started to recall what I saw when I last visited Chongqing and the 3 Gorges on the Yangtze on a cruise ship. The water level that year was super high. I also recalled a past incident in Australia, where a nice piece of land at a vista point along a certain river, was nearly all washed away after a massive flood in the area. So I started to imagine what could happen in a worst flooding situation.
For a land site that is surrounded by water on 3 sides, by intuition we can imagine vehicular traffic and the bulk of the human traffic can only come the land side joining the peninsula - this will likely lead to congestion problems. I also imagine constructing a huge project at the top of a high wall on the tip of a peninsula should be more difficult - including the logistics - bearing in mind Chongqing is a 山城.
I am quite sure the people at CapitaLand have done their homework, and hopefully they have gone deep enough into the 'imponderables' in their project evaluation.