The Siem Reap provincial government has issued new guidelines to organise and clean up the popular Pub Street tourist area after labelling its current state as anarchic.
Siem Reap Provincial Governor Khim Bun Song issued the guidelines on Monday, informing business owners on Pub Street and taxi drivers to clean up their acts.

Mr Bun Song said in his letter that business owners and motorists have in the past encroached upon the street with illegal signs, electrical wires and parking lots, all of which must be remedied.
“These actions have seriously impacted public order,” he said in the letter. “They have caused a loss of beauty and increased road traffic, eliminated sidewalks, caused accidents, and inhibited the implementation of road traffic laws.”
The Siem Reap energy department must re-organise the electricity network, the letter added. A 14-year-old girl died during Khmer New Year when she touched an improperly wired sign belonging to a Spa...
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Bitte_Kein_Lexus wrote: ↑Tue Jul 04, 2017 8:54 pm Well tbh, Pub Street was horrible last time I was there (January). I had last been there several years prior, but the growth of dozens of lined up carts selling booze and blasting music at 300 decibels really ruined the vibe of the whole place for me. I figure anything they do about it is good.

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Street carts like these. you mean ? Pub St, Siem Reap, 30 June 2017:

Yeah, only when I was there it was loud techno pumping away and waaaay louder. As in Khmer wedding loud. I do think the governor is right: Siem Riep used to be a beautiful place every compared to the rest of Cambodia: preserved colonial architecture (nothing above three stories or so), big sidewalks with no car/bikes allowed so pedestrian friendly, big old trees lining the road, quiet and peaceful along the main drag, but could get wild if you wanted to. I'm surprised they ever let it slip that far. Il assuming it's the coppers who were making money and letting it increasingly slip away. It now felt more like some Koh Rong type place. The only good change was the cheap 4000r fruit shakes available everywhere.

Or maybe I've just become an old farm or something.

When I was last time in SR (1,5 years ago), I was in the bar/Restaurant with the Angkor Wat Design on the pub street for a beer and food.

I wounder that the bar Owners talk about loud Music ?!?!?! It was coming out of this restaurant or/and the one next. I just remnber it was just loud. The food disapear from my memory.....

When we sat there, i didn't here my wife, who was sitting in front of me. After we finish quick our beer & food, we disapear quickly to enjoy (a little bit) more silent places.....The loud music disturbs me much more than the trouble on the street.

leitfaden wrote: ↑Wed Jul 05, 2017 9:44 pm When I was last time in SR (1,5 years ago), I was in the bar/Restaurant with the Angkor Wat Design on the pub street for a beer and food.

I wounder that the bar Owners talk about loud Music ?!?!?! It was coming out of this restaurant or/and the one next. I just remnber it was just loud. The food disapear from my memory.....

When we sat there, i didn't here my wife, who was sitting in front of me. After we finish quick our beer & food, we disapear quickly to enjoy (a little bit) more silent places.....The loud music disturbs me much more than the trouble on the street.

Ah the wonderful Temple Bar....definitely not a place for quiet contemplation....

PUB STREET is now closed to vehicles at night.
Siem Reap: Pub street.
The city authorities have set up a new policy for stopping the traffic from 5 PM to 2 AM to make it more convenient for people to walk on the street.
The policy will be very strict for offenders and the police and traffic police stand by there usually.

hanno wrote:OK. Not sure why the city authorities label that news, Pub Street has been closed to traffic in the evening for years.

That’s what I thought.

It was closed to traffic on my first visit 10 years ago, so was going to ask when that changed.

Maybe they are only just pushing for enforcement now however I remember them being pretty strict about it every time I have been.

I was in SR 1,5 year ago and liked it very very much especially the night market in the surrounding Streets of pub street.

In fact, I did not like pub street very much.
- Insane loud music from the bars
- Overpriced food and drinks compared to the other Streets
- Overcrowded

If I remember correctly there we far less food carts in Pub street than in the neighbouring streets. In fact I loved the food carts and other small carts.
I had one of the best nights of my live when we sat down on plastic chairs on a coctail cart to drink a long Island Ice tea for 1,50. We (me and my wife in our 50's) ended up a japanese manager in his 60's with his wife and a Franch young guy with his Khmer girlfriend and had a hilarious time and got very drunk.

Yes, there were far too many tuc tucs begging for a ride on the street corners, but for me this all was the charm of Cambodia. Unorganized chaos, no visable rules and regulation and poor people making a small living and everyone having fun in a super relaxed admosphere. No irritation, friendly people and I felt very save all the time!

Again, Pub street was the worst part of it. Overcommercialished, too rich barowners (probably western) and NOT having the charm of the rest of the city or the country. Also the admosphere was by far not as relaxed as in the other streets.

Those Pubstreet owners thinking they are the BEST part of Siem Reap? For me they are the WORSE part of Siem Reap.

So if there would be any regulation, for me is bringing down the maximum volume in Pub street and let the rest as it is

Sorry, If I was wrong, but I am quite sure that in my memory I noticed that prices on Pubstreet were remarkebly higher that in the neighbouring Streets.
I did not eat and drink in Pubstreet because it was way too loud.
That about the owners .... I got the impression that most of them were foreign owned, but that was just my impression. Sorry if I am wrong.
But, no one can telle me that they are poor

Still did not like pubstreet