Power outages and traffic lights
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Much of the Riverside was out for almost 6 hours yesterday and another 4 hours or so today. Yesterday from about 1-6Pm and today from before 8Am till around noon. Driving around town today as well there were lots of places out all over town.
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Thanks for the update,i have to again be in pp next week ,so will make sure i stay in a hotel with a generator,kansaicanuck wrote: ↑Tue Mar 26, 2019 8:26 pmMuch of the Riverside was out for almost 6 hours yesterday and another 4 hours or so today. Yesterday from about 1-6Pm and today from before 8Am till around noon. Driving around town today as well there were lots of places out all over town.
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That's a good idea. I know other friends in different parts of town have been on the rotating schedule of 6 hours in the morning and the next day 6 hours in the afternoon without power. Until this weekend it hadn't been the same on Riverside but I think we've had 15 or 16 hours total without power since Saturday. Sunday was ok all day but that was already announced. Friday it was off all along Riverside for quite a few hours as well.tarariverboat wrote: ↑Tue Mar 26, 2019 8:30 pmThanks for the update,i have to again be in pp next week ,so will make sure i stay in a hotel with a generator,kansaicanuck wrote: ↑Tue Mar 26, 2019 8:26 pmMuch of the Riverside was out for almost 6 hours yesterday and another 4 hours or so today. Yesterday from about 1-6Pm and today from before 8Am till around noon. Driving around town today as well there were lots of places out all over town.
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Those huge wide streets is another thing what i like about Yangon.
It's a shame us Brits didnt have control of every major Asian city long enough to get the roads and city planning sorted for decades to come.
Asian short term thinking surely cant lend itself well to town planning.
I bet poor Migs has to eat his advocado toast much earlier simply because he has to travel through all that traffic in The Pehn.
It's a shame us Brits didnt have control of every major Asian city long enough to get the roads and city planning sorted for decades to come.
Asian short term thinking surely cant lend itself well to town planning.
I bet poor Migs has to eat his advocado toast much earlier simply because he has to travel through all that traffic in The Pehn.
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It's funny, some intersections seem to kind of work better without the lights on; some are cluster fucks if the police aren't there to help; and some are cluster fucks with even the police there.
That intersection by Olympic stadium seems one to avoid, but they've done a good job keeping some of the major intersections like the one near the Great Duke and those on Monivong clear.
And to the point of Yangon -- it's very nice not having motos everywhere, but even with wide streets the traffic is much worse there than here.
That intersection by Olympic stadium seems one to avoid, but they've done a good job keeping some of the major intersections like the one near the Great Duke and those on Monivong clear.
And to the point of Yangon -- it's very nice not having motos everywhere, but even with wide streets the traffic is much worse there than here.
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Yeah, Yangon seems chocked full of taxis for some reason. And the roads have very uncycle friendly narrow lanes.
I guess i was viewing the city from a strolling or non driving point of view, but not sure i see the traffic jams in Yangon as one does in The Penh?
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I went through an intersection in PP with no lights and the normal blue cops were “directing” traffic. It was a mess.
The next day the Gendarmerie were there. Everyone obeyed their directions and it was much better.
The next day the Gendarmerie were there. Everyone obeyed their directions and it was much better.
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Isn't huge cluster fucks exactly what well designed traffic management systems are looking to avoid? The whole point of having a small amount of cars wait in front of a crossing that now seems to "work better" is that it prevents everyone from piling up on that one big conjunction further down the road, isn't it?
Everybody who has been in a deadlock before should know that self-regulation of traffic has its limits. And I guess (no expert here) this is one of the reasons why we have traffic lights.
Agree on this - two massive bottlenecks that I encounter daily are the old Camko roundabout, the old Toul Kork roundabout & the st.598/337 junction; now both multiple entry/exit junctions with traffic lights. With traffic lights working, the gridlock goes back half a kilometre, with the boys in blue only, gridlock goes back a kilometer - absence of both, tumbleweed territory - you could almost pull a car with a 7777 plate through those junctions at ludicrous speed blind and not hit a thing (don't try this at home).Miguelito wrote: ↑Thu Mar 28, 2019 8:47 amIt's funny, some intersections seem to kind of work better without the lights on; some are cluster fucks if the police aren't there to help; and some are cluster fucks with even the police there.
That intersection by Olympic stadium seems one to avoid, but they've done a good job keeping some of the major intersections like the one near the Great Duke and those on Monivong clear.
And to the point of Yangon -- it's very nice not having motos everywhere, but even with wide streets the traffic is much worse there than here.
However, Mao Tse Tung (Great Joke hotel aside), with all those tiny little side streets joining, absolute mess - nothing disastrous, particularly on a motorbike, but a bit of a dodge & weave at every junction.
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