We’re not sure who to thank for this: Abhisit or Yingluck, but frankly we’re too excited to care. Looks like there might soon be a high-speed rail connecting Bangkok with Chiang Mai. The State Enterprise Policy Office (SEPO) is promising to start the project by the year end or early next year. This new route to Chiang Mai will cost around B100 billion and would shorten the time spent in travelling between these two cities to three and a half hours (though we’ll miss playing strip poker in the first class overnight sleeper cars). The plan, however, promises to be environmentally friendly with the 1-metre wide railway tracks built parallel to the existing one. The trains will be able to transport 29,000 people per day initially, and the ticket price will be around B1,200 to B1,500. There’s no end-date yet, but one can dream.