Phnom Penh: Airport trains to be ready by Khmer New Year

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Overheard it's going to be an overhead LR.
that makes sense
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700 meters out of 1200m done in early February

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Will be very interesting to see how the other traffic will deal with the regular trains....

I'll skip it while they do test runs I think....
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So it is actually happening, amazing. Let's hope it opens as scheduled, a few people would like to ride the train at New Year. Perhaps with all the Chinese money there will be a Bangkok style rapid transit system built. It would be cool.
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rogerrabbit wrote:700 meters out of 1200m done in early February

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1200m? That doesn't even get you from the airport to first set of traffic lights at St 2004.

Working this fast can only mean one thing: they haven't planned it properly and it will create even greater pain for traffic heading to and from pochentong, not to mention the thousands that commute from out that way
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cue: people sleeping on tracks
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epidemiks wrote: ↑Mon Feb 05, 2018 7:16 pm
rogerrabbit wrote:700 meters out of 1200m done in early February

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1200m? That doesn't even get you from the airport to first set of traffic lights at St 2004.

Working this fast can only mean one thing: they haven't planned it properly and it will create even greater pain for traffic heading to and from pochentong, not to mention the thousands that commute from out that way
The 1200 meters is just the extension. Mostly it uses the normal train tracks.
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rogerrabbit wrote:
epidemiks wrote: ↑Mon Feb 05, 2018 7:16 pm
rogerrabbit wrote:700 meters out of 1200m done in early February

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1200m? That doesn't even get you from the airport to first set of traffic lights at St 2004.

Working this fast can only mean one thing: they haven't planned it properly and it will create even greater pain for traffic heading to and from pochentong, not to mention the thousands that commute from out that way
The 1200 meters is just the extension. Mostly it uses the normal train tracks.
Ah. I thought it was going to be light rail/tram, not rail rail.
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I can't understand this link at all. Is there any map of it? I can see how a link could go from the airport to the existing railway. So you get onto the single track somewhere near the old Pochentong station, then what? The track from there goes across a few level-crossings at major junctions like Hanoi St, 598, Kim Il Sung and then ends up at where? The old train station, not particularly convenient for anywhere these days. They should have doubled up that track and pushed it all the way through to the riverside way back, instead of building office blocks in the path. I'm all for smart initiatives but I'm failing to see how this could be of any benefit whatsoever.
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Where is the pic of a Chinese man driving his car down this concrete motoway.
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