Metro/City Bus System

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I'm not saying don't have one... I'm saying make it a gradual change with comprehensive adjustments to the tuktuk industry. There will always be demand for tuktuks if it's done right... just as there's still demand for cyclos. But you don't see them sitting on every corner.

Rather than yank the rug out from under the feet of an industry, step it back. Enforce special licensing to run tuktuks, fix the number, then step it back as you bring the transit system forward. Dropping an entire industry because you came up with a better idea without considering the impact that dropping it will have is economically and socially irresponsible.
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The tuktuk drivers are a little more militant than they might appear. On several occasions when I've been driving our tuktuk another driver has come and asked whether it is just for my family and friends and stressed 'not for customers, yeah?' I'm not really sure I'd want to know the outcome of me driving it for profit, pretty sure it would at least involve damage to the tuktuk.

Mind you, when I play the "you wun tuktuk?" game with the other drivers, there's never a shortage of them climbing in for a quick spin around the block. Normally I ask them where they're from (and then tell them I have a sister from there) and ask them if they want to go to Killing Fields or Siem Reap ($20… good price, okay for you my friend special price $19) - never gets old.
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i think theres work for everyone, the tuk tuk drivers would become Songthaow drivers - yeah its a bigger investment but they would make more money. its just a bigger tuktuk that runs on a set route and lets people share, and there will still be people who want a door to door tuktuk ride.

in Bangkok, the building of the skytrain and underground hasn't killed the taxi or moto industry, they get another oportunity eg. people take a skytrain to the station near their apartment, and then jump on a moto for the last 1 or 2 kms home
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StroppyChops wrote:The tuktuk drivers are a little more militant than they might appear. On several occasions when I've been driving our tuktuk another driver has come and asked whether it is just for my family and friends and stressed 'not for customers, yeah?' I'm not really sure I'd want to know the outcome of me driving it for profit, pretty sure it would at least involve damage to the tuktuk.

Mind you, when I play the "you wun tuktuk?" game with the other drivers, there's never a shortage of them climbing in for a quick spin around the block. Normally I ask them where they're from (and then tell them I have a sister from there) and ask them if they want to go to Killing Fields or Siem Reap ($20… good price, okay for you my friend special price $19) - never gets old.
I had actually tossed around the idea of getting a "barangtuk" and diong weekends from the airport to the riverside. charging a premium for having a native english speaking driver/etc. the wife informed me that i'd be killed.

and I can understand it to some degree (though not the severity)... this is their livelihood. foreigners taking jobs away from locals gets shit on in any country. especially if it's the only job a lot of them can do and they've invested what would be 2 years worth of income (or more) to be able to do it.
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OrangeDragon wrote:...and I can understand it to some degree (though not the severity)... this is their livelihood. foreigners taking jobs away from locals gets shit on in any country.
Absolutely. Yet on the other hand wherever I've gone in the tuktuk I've been accepted in the brotherhood of tuktuk drivers. Usually because they're fascinated by a mini tuktuk and it's more entertaining to them than television to see a big barang driving one.
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http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/chine ... ice-68841/

A Chinese company will donate 100 buses to assist in the planned expansion of Phnom Penh’s public bus service from three to 10 lines next year, officials said Wednesday.

According to a memorandum of understanding (MoU) between City Hall and the local government of Zhengzhou, the capital of China’s Henan province, Chinese bus manufacturer Yutong will provide the buses, which the company values at $70,000 each.

Phnom Penh Deputy Governor Chreang Sophann, who signed the MoU on Tuesday, said the agreement was just the first step in acquiring the buses.

“We will ask for approval from the government and continue by making a request through the Ministry of Finance to the Chinese Embassy,” he said.

Ean Sokhim, director of Phnom Penh’s Autonomous Bus Transportation Authority, said the donated vehicles would be crucial to expanding the municipality’s fledgling public bus service.

Mr. Sokhim said the city currently had 44 buses running along its three lines, and a total of 350 buses would be needed to expand to the planned 10 lines next year.
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Those 44 bus's must have been some of the 30 I saw down by the Independence beach road (Snooky) last month that all had Korean advertising on the sides.

I wonder what the Vietnamese powers that be think about the Chinese "invasion?" 1) Taking over Ream Park. 2) One Billion dollar KO Pous Island project. 3) Proposed Iron ore project and 250 mile railroad to Ko Kong.4) Mega-Watt Chinese power plant down by Snooky. What else are the sneaky Chinese up to in the land-of-wonder? Next thing you know they will be putting in a Cambodian/Chinese airline that actually flies domestically and isn't a puppet of the Vietnamese.
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Sailorman wrote:Those 44 bus's must have been some of the 30 I saw down by the Independence beach road (Snooky)

last month that all had Korean advertising on the sides.

I wonder what the Vietnamese powers that be think about the Chinese "invasion?" 1) Taking over Ream Park. 2) One Billion dollar KO Pous Island project. 3) Proposed Iron ore project and 250 mile railroad to Ko Kong.4) Mega-Watt Chinese power plant down by Snooky. What else are the sneaky Chinese up to in the land-of-wonder? Next thing you know they will be putting in a Cambodian/Chinese airline that actually flies domestically and isn't a puppet of the Vietnamese.

Yep, 44 plus,, mobile advertising billboards, and no-one has taken up the opportunity of paying for the advertising space on the outside AND the inside of the buses. Makes the local tuk-tuk drivers look like smart business men if you do a comparison.
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Duncan wrote:Makes the local tuk-tuk drivers look like smart business men if you do a comparison.
That's gotta be a first.
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