Cyclo taxi
Cyclo taxi
Saw a handful of Cyclo taxi riders (drivers?) parked up whilst in PP this week. They were chatting away and smoking, drinking coffee etc. One thing I noticed is they all looked over 60yo.
Once they stop who's going to continue with it? No youngster wants to do it as they'd get a moto or Tuk Tuk.
So will they be consigned to the history books and in five years time they'll be threads on 440 reminiscing about the good old days of Cyclos?
I remember when this were all fields etc.
See, old geezer.
Once they stop who's going to continue with it? No youngster wants to do it as they'd get a moto or Tuk Tuk.
So will they be consigned to the history books and in five years time they'll be threads on 440 reminiscing about the good old days of Cyclos?
I remember when this were all fields etc.
See, old geezer.
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I always feel bad for them because they took up a job that the city left behind in a really fast and hard way. I was looking at some pictures of Monivong blvd from only back in 2005ish and it appeared to be afternoon and the street only had a handful of cars and some motos driving on it. No tuk tuks or Range Rovers parked up and down the sidewalk. It looked.... normal and peaceful.YaTingPom wrote:Saw a handful of Cyclo taxi riders (drivers?) parked up whilst in PP this week. They were chatting away and smoking, drinking coffee etc. One thing I noticed is they all looked over 60yo.
Once they stop who's going to continue with it? No youngster wants to do it as they'd get a moto or Tuk Tuk.
So will they be consigned to the history books and in five years time they'll be threads on 440 reminiscing about the good old days of Cyclos?
I remember when this were all fields etc.
See, old geezer.
Cyclo actually made sense and could get you around pretty quickly back then I suppose. Poor chaps got left behind and do not know what else to do.
They ALL are age 50 + from what I have seen the past few years. Sad stuff, in a way.
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Plus there's no security from bag/phone snatchers.
Still didn't stop the tourist (Japanese) with a selfie stick filming himself! The Cyclo was telling him to stop but the tourist just thought he was waving at the camera and did a thumbs up in return.
Still didn't stop the tourist (Japanese) with a selfie stick filming himself! The Cyclo was telling him to stop but the tourist just thought he was waving at the camera and did a thumbs up in return.
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A lot of younger cyclo workers around on the tourist route and Psar Kandal. Just less and less cyclos in use.
They are quite dangerous in this traffic, but it's still a pity they are dying out. Cheaper than a Moto, and can carry larger loads.
One day I watched a heavy North American tourist flag one old boy on a cyclo down on st 172 for a ride to central market. The cyclo guy (in okay English) complained about how the tourist was so heavy that he would have to rest all evening afterwards and eventually agreed to take him for $5.
20 minutes later he was back; having delivered the fat guy to Psar Thmey, and picked up what looked like a metric ton of beer and soft drink from Che Deth drink shop in Psar Kandal to deliver to her sisters shop on st172, without breaking a sweat.
They are quite dangerous in this traffic, but it's still a pity they are dying out. Cheaper than a Moto, and can carry larger loads.
One day I watched a heavy North American tourist flag one old boy on a cyclo down on st 172 for a ride to central market. The cyclo guy (in okay English) complained about how the tourist was so heavy that he would have to rest all evening afterwards and eventually agreed to take him for $5.
20 minutes later he was back; having delivered the fat guy to Psar Thmey, and picked up what looked like a metric ton of beer and soft drink from Che Deth drink shop in Psar Kandal to deliver to her sisters shop on st172, without breaking a sweat.
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Let's hope so. Should have been gone when combustion engines became common but the people here were too poor to afford them. By the time these guys retire maybe just maybe this city might get some semblance of a real public transportation network of the kind other Asian countries launched in the 1950's.YaTingPom wrote:No youngster wants to do it as they'd get a moto or Tuk Tuk.
So will they be consigned to the history books
Probably not though.
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yeah noticed this also, never actually ridden in a cyclo before, maybe one day, i remember watching "City of Ghosts" and thinking to myself about the large number of Cyclos about
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I've only ever been in a couple. They were the vehicle of choice for anyone picking up large stuff for a long time. There were hundreds of those guys sleeping under awnings or trees, they were a sorry sight. I think a lot of them were old worn-out Pol Pot soldiers. I wouldn't care about that so much. What bothered me was when I figured out that many if not most of the bikes weren't actually owned by the cyclo guy. They were rented out at $5 a day or whatever by some usurious families who had hundreds on the go. I never felt good in rickshaws in India or here. I don't feel all that good having a tuburcular guy who resembles the starving Buddha busting his guts trying to get my lazy ass across town.Jamie_Lambo wrote:yeah noticed this also, never actually ridden in a cyclo before, maybe one day, i remember watching "City of Ghosts" and thinking to myself about the large number of Cyclos about
Cyclo?
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Top film.Jamie_Lambo wrote:yeah noticed this also, never actually ridden in a cyclo before, maybe one day, i remember watching "City of Ghosts" and thinking to myself about the large number of Cyclos about
My oh asked what film I was watching. "City of ghosts" I say. "Oooh. Not like. Ghosts!"
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That was a movie set! There was way more motor-traffic around by the time they shot that. At the same time there used to be loads of cyclos around. Then those trailer-style tuk-tuks took over. Now the business seems consigned to novelty and tourists.Jamie_Lambo wrote:yeah noticed this also, never actually ridden in a cyclo before, maybe one day, i remember watching "City of Ghosts" and thinking to myself about the large number of Cyclos about
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BTW in case it isn't clear cyclos have nothing to do with Khmer culture. They were invented in 1939 by the French who couldn't get Viets to pull them around Saigon on standard rickshaws. They were always driven by Viets and only ridden by the French. They are a legacy of European colonialism and forced underdevelopment. The fact that there is a fucking "Cyclo NGO" only continues the tradition of the Western world shitting all over this place today.
Cyclos disappeared in Vietnam as the country developed, built up its roads and a public transportation system and introduced a huge fleet of modern inexpensive metered taxis. Of course you need to pay people a decent salary so they can afford to use taxis even when they are so cheap. You also need regulations like those in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi that ban cyclos from main roads where they cause traffic jams.
In Cambodia regulation is non existent, there is no one willing to enforce regulations even if they did exist (tuk tuks are supposedly banned from Norodom Blvd, LOL!), there is no public transportation to speak of outside a bus that runs in a circle, taxis cost as much as they do in Thailand where salaries are 300% higher or more, and there are millions of totally impoverished people. That means cyclos will remain for now, so all the expat trash that loves the "quaint picture" of dirt port elderly homeless men peddling stinky German tourist groups through the hot sun can relax.
Cyclos disappeared in Vietnam as the country developed, built up its roads and a public transportation system and introduced a huge fleet of modern inexpensive metered taxis. Of course you need to pay people a decent salary so they can afford to use taxis even when they are so cheap. You also need regulations like those in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi that ban cyclos from main roads where they cause traffic jams.
In Cambodia regulation is non existent, there is no one willing to enforce regulations even if they did exist (tuk tuks are supposedly banned from Norodom Blvd, LOL!), there is no public transportation to speak of outside a bus that runs in a circle, taxis cost as much as they do in Thailand where salaries are 300% higher or more, and there are millions of totally impoverished people. That means cyclos will remain for now, so all the expat trash that loves the "quaint picture" of dirt port elderly homeless men peddling stinky German tourist groups through the hot sun can relax.
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