Cambodia's future transportation

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Cambodia's future transportation

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Lets have some useful discussions about this unfortunate city. Are there any transportation experts here? I want hear your takes about Cambodia's future transportation basically in Phnom Penh. Do you think metro is suitable for Phnom Penh or can metro be built in Phnom Penh?
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http://traincambodia.com/
Trains to Thailand and to airport coming soon
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Metro is most likely too expensive for Cambodia for long time. I think the best option for Phnom Penh would rapid bus network, like they have in Brazil and some cities in Philippines. Own seperate roads with stops/stations. Much cheaper option then rails and can be build much faster as well.
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"Own seperate roads with stops/stations. Much cheaper option..."

Of course it is. It costs next to nothing to throw poor people off their land.
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Check out the new ev cup from Honda, nothing beats a moto for getting around quickly in PP

http://www.gizmag.com/honda-ev-cub-2018 ... ion/42375/
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table42 wrote:"Own seperate roads with stops/stations. Much cheaper option..."

Of course it is. It costs next to nothing to throw poor people off their land.
PP will be such a traffic nightmare in 10-15 years if something is not done in near future about the public transport. Pollution etc. will be so bad that those who now own the land central area, might not even want to live there. And even if they pay "well" for the people for the land, it would still come cheaper than metro. Metro is extremely expensive to build. Expecially in place like PP. And of course those roads could be build in air, like skytrain.
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rogerrabbit wrote:PP will be such a traffic nightmare in 10-15 years if something is not done in near future about the public transport.
It is already a nightmare.

What is this foreign concept of giving a f about the 'public'?
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"Lets have some useful discussions about this unfortunate city..."

Unfortunate??? Shit, it's hopeless!

This response is right on "What is this foreign concept of giving a f about the 'public'?"

The public is whoever you can step on so that the powerful rich become even richer. Get your head outta yr.ass; it was too late years ago. Cambodia is a country with absolutory no future at all. It keeps its delusions by stoking the fires of the past and by pimping Angkor Wat as a vision of the future. You ought to contribute to TripAdvisor.com. They'd love a native telling them everything is fixable.
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Postby Duncan » Sat May 14, 2016 3:48 pm




Rutiger wrote:
It's a great idea and I hope they pursue it, although there will obviously be some forced evictions if land owners won't sell. The existing train tracks are less than 2km from the airport terminal, but there is no "vacant land" route from there as he suggested for a train to get to the actual airport. Their best bet may be to build a new train station at Street 105K and begin regular shuttle bus service for the last 2km. The taxi drivers will fiercely and violently oppose it, though.





A '' sky train '' would work better. Following the original train track, but above it . Pillars on each side of the track, and rail line on the cross piece that joins the two pillars. The advantages of this , a ''light rail '', system is it does not interfere with any other traffic. No dogs cows or Lexus to get in the way. Does not take any extra land, and the system can be all automated, run from a office with CCTV, and not even needing a driver .
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I detect a certain slithering venom laden presence in this thread that is distinctly familiar.
Something toxic, with scales, from the provinces sssss.
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