So, what's going on in Siem Reap?
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How much a month?
When I need advice about life, I just check in here.
Re: So, what's going on in Siem Reap?
I pay $350 for 1br...one year lease.
I think most units are 2br.
Not sure what they go for.
It is apartment or a hotel...depends on your contract.
KT apartment...google map it..
I think most units are 2br.
Not sure what they go for.
It is apartment or a hotel...depends on your contract.
KT apartment...google map it..
Re: So, what's going on in Siem Reap?
Nine months later from thread start . . .
Fresh videos are showing a much cleaner, neater Siem Reap. Much of the paving is done, sidewalks installed. But I see many intersection light standards without any traffic lights installed yet. They're still finishing the street surfacing at the south end of Sivutha Blvd. Probably elsewhere, too.
Here's a 24-hour-old video shot around dinner hour yesterday, I guess. Heavy traffic, lots of shops open, as well as restaurants and bars open in Pub Street and elsewhere. Pub Street is looking shipshape. Overall, the town is looking very, uh, modern.
There are some new daytime videos posted at long-running sr-infrastructure https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLONee ... 3bg/videos on YT. Again, looking almost ready to welcome us fat wallets.
From sr-infrastructure on YT posted today:
Fresh videos are showing a much cleaner, neater Siem Reap. Much of the paving is done, sidewalks installed. But I see many intersection light standards without any traffic lights installed yet. They're still finishing the street surfacing at the south end of Sivutha Blvd. Probably elsewhere, too.
Here's a 24-hour-old video shot around dinner hour yesterday, I guess. Heavy traffic, lots of shops open, as well as restaurants and bars open in Pub Street and elsewhere. Pub Street is looking shipshape. Overall, the town is looking very, uh, modern.
There are some new daytime videos posted at long-running sr-infrastructure https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLONee ... 3bg/videos on YT. Again, looking almost ready to welcome us fat wallets.
From sr-infrastructure on YT posted today:
Re: So, what's going on in Siem Reap?
Getting the infrastructure on the roadways makes a big difference too an area such as Siem Reap in particular with its norm of a multitude of visitors. In doing the work it should limit congestion and help keep accidents to a minimum. What is more outstanding is the actual pavement's, unobstructed giving people a safe place to walk away from busy traffic.
Always "hope" but never "expect".
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Actual sidewalks (a.k.a. pavements) encourage walking, which is what I prefer to do. Pedestrian life in Thailand is fraught with obstacles, including broken and/or sunken pavers, actual holes in the surface, maintenance covers that can tip or break, well, you know the drill: ducking, dodging, bumping and diving out of the way of motorcycles, low-flying signs, mid-path poles, hanging wires, on and on.AndyKK wrote: ↑Thu Dec 30, 2021 5:37 pm Getting the infrastructure on the roadways makes a big difference too an area such as Siem Reap in particular with its norm of a multitude of visitors. In doing the work it should limit congestion and help keep accidents to a minimum. What is more outstanding is the actual pavement's, unobstructed giving people a safe place to walk away from busy traffic.
Siem Reap has got the right idea. The raised sidewalks and what looks like parking lanes, discourage the Lexus brick heads who think nothing of riding and blocking the walking paths. I think I will need to inspect the situation sometime in the new year.
CEO members in SR, comments?
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Re: So, what's going on in Siem Reap?
In Sihanoukville people are actually parking their cars on the side of the road and new sidewalks are left for pedestrians and bicycles. There's bit of bicycle boom going in the city thanks to the new roads.ExPenhMan wrote: ↑Thu Dec 30, 2021 6:06 pmActual sidewalks (a.k.a. pavements) encourage walking, which is what I prefer to do. Pedestrian life in Thailand is fraught with obstacles, including broken and/or sunken pavers, actual holes in the surface, maintenance covers that can tip or break, well, you know the drill: ducking, dodging, bumping and diving out of the way of motorcycles, low-flying signs, mid-path poles, hanging wires, on and on.AndyKK wrote: ↑Thu Dec 30, 2021 5:37 pm Getting the infrastructure on the roadways makes a big difference too an area such as Siem Reap in particular with its norm of a multitude of visitors. In doing the work it should limit congestion and help keep accidents to a minimum. What is more outstanding is the actual pavement's, unobstructed giving people a safe place to walk away from busy traffic.
Siem Reap has got the right idea. The raised sidewalks and what looks like parking lanes, discourage the Lexus brick heads who think nothing of riding and blocking the walking paths. I think I will need to inspect the situation sometime in the new year.
CEO members in SR, comments?
Developments in SR looks very nice and the town start to look very liveable place now.
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I'm just hoping that they "finish" the work. About 6 weeks ago they stopped working on the roads out where we live and moved all those guys into the town to try to get as much of that done before the new year. One of the Videos showed road towards Wat Damnak into town. But if you take same road away from town you'll soon run into nothing but gravel and further you'll find some dirt roads that were graded but then work stopped. So if they return and finish then the "system" should work well. If they don't then I anticipate traffic patterns will change and we'll end up with more congestion.
Some of the roads are quite good. The one thing they don't seem to have thought through is the road shoulders. They have put in several concrete roads here that are several centimeters raised from the roadside and at night there are going to be some ugly moto accidents on the curves. One of the engineers told me they expect the local homeowners to take care of the road shoulders but from what I'm looking at that is an unrealistic proposition. One would have to buy dirt/gravel to create a slope and then either find a way to get it paved or pour your own concrete to make it permanent.
We'll see.
Some of the roads are quite good. The one thing they don't seem to have thought through is the road shoulders. They have put in several concrete roads here that are several centimeters raised from the roadside and at night there are going to be some ugly moto accidents on the curves. One of the engineers told me they expect the local homeowners to take care of the road shoulders but from what I'm looking at that is an unrealistic proposition. One would have to buy dirt/gravel to create a slope and then either find a way to get it paved or pour your own concrete to make it permanent.
We'll see.
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