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CEOCambodiaNews wrote: Thu Sep 29, 2022 4:25 pm Expressway Residents Cut Fence to Sell Food to Motorists
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Final checks ahead of Saturday’s Phnom Penh-Sihanoukville expressway opening have found residents cutting barbed wire fencing so they can graze cows by the road and sell food to motorists, the Transport Ministry said.

The $2-billion, 190-km expressway, under construction since March 2019, is due to open Saturday with the first month toll-free.

However, Pal Chandara, spokesperson for the Transport Ministry, said on Thursday that some residents had been cutting the fencing set up to prevent animals from wandering into the expressway area.

He would not say in how many places the fence had been cut, but said the residents had several reasons for doing so.

Some wanted to be able to walk across the expressway in places where an underpass was far away, while others wanted to graze cows and buffaloes by the road. Others wanted to sell food on the roadside, Chandara said.

“They are not supposed to cross the road. It’s an expressway. So the cars can’t slow down,” he said. “We have pointed out crossings for them. It’s a bit far from their home and they want a quicker way to cross the road.”
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Not stupidity. In their mindset, it’s brilliant.

Cambodia has never had a Super Highway, ever.

It’s a complete paradigm shift from traffic rules that have been around seemingly forever. It’s going to take a few dead cows, a few flattened people, and lots of traffic accidents before people adjust.

When the average Khmer first encountered the escalator at Aeon Mall?

After the Khmer adjust, they will want all their roads like that.
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newkidontheblock wrote: Fri Sep 30, 2022 2:25 am Not stupidity. In their mindset, it’s brilliant.

Cambodia has never had a Super Highway, ever.

It’s a complete paradigm shift from traffic rules that have been around seemingly forever. It’s going to take a few dead cows, a few flattened people, and lots of traffic accidents before people adjust.

When the average Khmer first encountered the escalator at Aeon Mall?

After the Khmer adjust, they will want all their roads like that.

And their railway lines.
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I think it's going to be a complete shit show, guarantee there will be lots of accidents/ casualties and jams in the first month and then it will be temporarily closed "for review" then they reopen with higher toll prices.
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Tootsfriend wrote: Fri Sep 30, 2022 5:01 am
newkidontheblock wrote: Fri Sep 30, 2022 2:25 am Not stupidity. In their mindset, it’s brilliant.

Cambodia has never had a Super Highway, ever.

It’s a complete paradigm shift from traffic rules that have been around seemingly forever. It’s going to take a few dead cows, a few flattened people, and lots of traffic accidents before people adjust.

When the average Khmer first encountered the escalator at Aeon Mall?

After the Khmer adjust, they will want all their roads like that.

And their railway lines.
They don't seem to have adjusted to the trains too well. They still fall asleep on the lines, park their cars on the lines or otherwise fail to grasp the concept that a train can't swerve or stop in time to prevent killing them.
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The first escalator wasn't at Aeon. It was at Soriya Mall several years before Aeon was built....
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Doc67 wrote: Fri Sep 30, 2022 7:38 am
Tootsfriend wrote: Fri Sep 30, 2022 5:01 am
newkidontheblock wrote: Fri Sep 30, 2022 2:25 am Not stupidity. In their mindset, it’s brilliant.

Cambodia has never had a Super Highway, ever.

It’s a complete paradigm shift from traffic rules that have been around seemingly forever. It’s going to take a few dead cows, a few flattened people, and lots of traffic accidents before people adjust.

When the average Khmer first encountered the escalator at Aeon Mall?

After the Khmer adjust, they will want all their roads like that.

And their railway lines.
They don't seem to have adjusted to the trains too well. They still fall asleep on the lines, park their cars on the lines or otherwise fail to grasp the concept that a train can't swerve or stop in time to prevent killing them.
And there doesn’t seem to have been much adjustment after decades of dead cows, flattened people and traffic accidents on the regular roads and highways.
I don’t imagine traffic traveling at even higher speeds will improve matters.
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wolfcreek wrote: Fri Sep 30, 2022 8:51 am The first escalator wasn't at Aeon. It was at Soriya Mall several years before Aeon was built....
Well actually the first escalators were at Thmor Da cinema on Kampuchea Krom in the early 60s. It's a restaurant now.
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wolfcreek wrote: Fri Sep 30, 2022 8:51 am The first escalator wasn't at Aeon. It was at Soriya Mall several years before Aeon was built....
Totally off topic, but what the hell. In those early days after the Sorya Mall opened, I used to love watching those girls who were too scared to get on the escalator. I would sneak up behind, grab their hand and jump on the escalator and there would be screams and laughter as they were pulled on behind me. In those days what girl would not want to follow on the stairway to heaven with a handsome barang.
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NOTE: There are designated rest stops planned for motorists on the Phnom Penh-Sihanoukville expressway which opens tomorrow.
Ministry names locations of capital-S'ville expressway rest stops
Post Staff | Publication date 30 September 2022 | 16:17 ICT
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The Ministry of Public Works and Transport issued a September 30 announcement detailing the conditions for use of the rest stops on the Phnom Penh-Sihanoukville Expressway, with the Chinese company-built road set to be opened for free for the month of October.

The ministry said the expressway has four rest stops, each of which offers a parking lot, petrol station, public bathrooms and a canteen.

Two of the four locations are in Kampong Speu province (40km) and in the west of that province (63km). The two others are in Preah Sihanouk province's Kampong Seila district (109km) and in the west of the province's Prey Nob district (156km).
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