street condition here in 1990s??
street condition here in 1990s??
For those of you who were here in th 1990s what do you remember about the condition of the streets? I recall only four streets being properly surfaced/sealed (and maintained somewhat). All other streets were dirt/gravel (mostly hard packed dirt) and full of huge potholes. Nothing like today if I recall correctly.
Motodops would seldom attempt to drive on many of the streets because of the huge potholes (would have to drive very slowly and constantly zig-zag from side to side to avoid the holes)..
Not only in the nineties, though also in the early 2000 years, it was largely pothole dirt roads, with through roads in PP being paved. The road to Ban Lung was a 3 days challenge in those days.
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2002 , I was riding my Vespa up through walkabout area just after a monsoon. The roads were flooded but this was the Vespa trick as the hull shaped front parted the waters, until I hit a deep unseen pothole and one vespa became two.
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Romantic Cambodia is dead and gone. It's with McKinley in the grave.
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Romantic Cambodia is dead and gone. It's with McKinley in the grave.
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In Phnom Penh and Country-wide there were no "real" roads - only the evidence that there had once been roads, bridges and culverts etc.
One trip in 1992 from Phnom Penh to Siem Reap in a 6x6 Kamas truck laden with 44 Gallon/200 litre drums of fuel took 12 hours and I was utterly exhausted on arrival never mind partially dehydrated and I was the passenger and not the driver. The driver was buggered.
In the wet season, the overland trip from Poi Pet to Siem Reap could and often did take 32 hours travelling. Much of the trip being through/over rice fields as the road was unpassable. And for those mad enough to do this trip overland in the wet season passengers spent as much time pushing and lifting the pick up truck as they did riding in it. It was an ordeal to put it mildly. The section through Kralan District was notoriously bad.
You are correct about Phnom Penh. But around the Royal Palace and Riverside was paved/sealed. But the side roads were in ruins.
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One trip in 1992 from Phnom Penh to Siem Reap in a 6x6 Kamas truck laden with 44 Gallon/200 litre drums of fuel took 12 hours and I was utterly exhausted on arrival never mind partially dehydrated and I was the passenger and not the driver. The driver was buggered.
In the wet season, the overland trip from Poi Pet to Siem Reap could and often did take 32 hours travelling. Much of the trip being through/over rice fields as the road was unpassable. And for those mad enough to do this trip overland in the wet season passengers spent as much time pushing and lifting the pick up truck as they did riding in it. It was an ordeal to put it mildly. The section through Kralan District was notoriously bad.
You are correct about Phnom Penh. But around the Royal Palace and Riverside was paved/sealed. But the side roads were in ruins.
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That's wild, less than 5 km an hour!Ot Mean Loi wrote: ↑Sun Jul 05, 2020 1:07 pm
In the wet season, the overland trip from Poi Pet to Siem Reap could and often did take 32 hours travelling.
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Perhaps it should have been 24 hours but it was a trip you only made once and never again. It was a real nightmare at the height of the wet season.
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But something that the photos of the day will bear out is the total lack of motor cycle drawn tuk tuks in the early days. There were only moto dops riding for the most part old 90 cc and 1010 cc
motos from god knows where, and in the major cities and towns a few old cyclos operated by ancient looking men without an ounce of body fat. The lucky locals had old bicycles and the rest walked. It was nothing to see whole families in the one cyclo and often with some bulky object in it with them.
All a very far cry from what one sees today.
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motos from god knows where, and in the major cities and towns a few old cyclos operated by ancient looking men without an ounce of body fat. The lucky locals had old bicycles and the rest walked. It was nothing to see whole families in the one cyclo and often with some bulky object in it with them.
All a very far cry from what one sees today.
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Didn't they have the 'ramorque' tuk tuks that would ferry people along to factories? About 12 to a boat, without a roof.
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