Are there not also a railway and two water pipelines on the Singapore-Johore
Causeway, in addition to the roadway and any footpath?
Does the specificity of the MYSG boundary (except for on the causeway) imply
that there is a definite boundary on the high-level Second Link Bridge opened in
1998 at the western end of Singapore Island? Is the boundary marked of the
bridge by signs, flags, etc?
Lowell G. McManus
Leesville, Louisiana, USA
----- Original Message -----
From: "aletheiak" <aletheiak@...>
To: <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 10:23 AM
Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: border crossings and rules of road
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> yikes
> 11 meters seems scarcely enough clearance for the minimum necessary 2
> lanes of car traffic & pedestrian walkway etc
> if there were only a single span
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> but i believe there is actually a double elevated roadway there
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> so i have to wonder
> are you sure these points are indeed both clear of the entire
> causeway construction
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> but even if not
> then dont they effectively establish the position for any dry
> boundary sector that should happen to arise upon or between or above
> them anyway
> in the absence of any other agreement
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> & to pursue the question of the idmysg tripoints if possible
> since you have coords for these 2 points on mysg
> would you also happen to have its terminal points
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> & would you know if they are they comparable to those of the idsg
> terminal points
> &or to the relevant idmy terminal points if any
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> --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Martin Pratt" <m.a.pratt@d...>
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> > Malaysia and Singapore signed a territorial sea boundary agreement
> > in 1995 which provided geographical coordinates for a boundary
> > originally established in 1927 as "an imaginary line following the
> > centre of the deep-water channel in Johore Strait". The 1995
> > agreement defines a boundary east and west of the causeway but
> > otherwise makes no mention of the causeway itself - which suggests
> > to me that the two governments treat the boundary on the causeway
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> > a (still to be defined?) land boundary. The nearest points on the
> > territorial sea boundary to the causeway are at: 01d 27' 10.0"N,
> > 103d 46' 16.0"E to the east of the causeway; and 01d 27' 09.8"N,
> > 103d 46' 15.7"E to the west of the causeway (coordinates refer to
> > the Revised Kertau Datum) - which, according to my rough
> > calculations, leaves a gap of approximately 11 metres.
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