Siem Reap will build and renovate 38 roads totaling approximately 100 kilometers. Demolitions have started of roadside buildings to give space for the wider roads. National Road 6 will be widened to 35 meters.
Some residents said that the demolition and construction work has brought a lot of difficulty and made life inconvenient. The street lights along National Road 6 have been off for several months making it difficult and unsafe to travel at night. People in the area are reporting frequent power outages caused by the construction work.
Residents say that the renovation work is being done now because the city is quiet due to the lack of tourists.
A Chinese businessman told reporters that the government has began infrastructure construction not only because there are no tourists, but also to create local jobs. Many people have lost their jobs and their source of income after the tourists disappeared due to Covid-19. The lack of work risks causing social instability.
Large numbers of young and middle-aged laborers can be hired for the required construction work, giving people a good source of income.
Siem Reap has always been a small tourist town. People living in Siem Reap say that it is quiet and comfortable, but now Siem Reap has started to move towards a more modern direction with wider roads.
The new Siem Reap International Airport covers an area of 700 hectares and has a total investment of $880 million USD. It is currently under construction and is expected to be completed in 2023. The project is managed by Chinese Yunnan Investment Holding Group.
A Chinese businessman said that the price of land near the airport has started to increase, especially near National Road 64.
Siem Reap begins road renovation
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It is causing a fair bit of inconvenience, but I'm hopeful that the end will justify the means. So many roads in the area are simply useless, particularly in late September & early October. I thought Road 6 itself was fine, apart from occasional high levels of water (I wouldn't call it 'flooding') but the offshoots from Road 6 are pretty bad, to say the least.
Fingers crossed that the country's tourist hub gets the infrastructure it deserves.
Fingers crossed that the country's tourist hub gets the infrastructure it deserves.
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What about all the locals who’ve lost everything!
pew, pew, pew, pew!
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YTP, I don’t know whether you actually live in Siem Reap, but I do.
In fact, I live on Road 6.
I think it’s a mistake to lump all locals together as: ‘The Locals’. I think Siem Reap is (was) a diverse, once-cosmopolitan community.
People here have been affected by events of the past few months in a number of ways.
Firstly, Cripes, the tourist industry has crumbled. I mean, collapsed, to a devastating degree.
Heck, that was the breadwinner for many a family, so suddenly, ‘local businesses’ have been wiped out.
That is shocking, and I have said so on various other threads.
But, I think it’s important to look at the way various people have ‘made money out of the ‘tourist boom.’
It's not all about 'Poor down-trodden' locals.
In fact, I live on Road 6.
I think it’s a mistake to lump all locals together as: ‘The Locals’. I think Siem Reap is (was) a diverse, once-cosmopolitan community.
People here have been affected by events of the past few months in a number of ways.
Firstly, Cripes, the tourist industry has crumbled. I mean, collapsed, to a devastating degree.
Heck, that was the breadwinner for many a family, so suddenly, ‘local businesses’ have been wiped out.
That is shocking, and I have said so on various other threads.
But, I think it’s important to look at the way various people have ‘made money out of the ‘tourist boom.’
It's not all about 'Poor down-trodden' locals.
'History is a set of lies agreed upon.'
Attributed to Napoleon
Attributed to Napoleon
Much thanks for including that map of roads to be rebuilt.
I bought a hard-title 600sqm bit a few years ago in an old village 3.5km SE of Pasar Cha. I now need the $ and would be happy to sell, but it looks like I'll need to hold on AT LEAST a couple of years to get what it was worth Jan 1st 2020. It's on a nice, dry, laterite road and the Village Chief lives in the house opposite. All we have done so far is fence it, other plans went on hold with the virus crash.
I had hoped ours would be one of the roads to be upgraded, but though they are quite close, our road isn't high-lit on the map.
The land was already 200m South of an asphalt road, and soon that will be a bigger and more connected asphalt road. Another road on the plan goes past 400m to the East as the crow flies, but 500m by road. I guess I will get easier access to the new airport, (But honestly I would far, far rather they kept the current airport location. For anyone in the NW of the country the current Siem Reap international airport is great, much easier than PNH. If in the future I must land 1.5 hrs further Southeast, on the border with Kompong Thom, BKK will likely become my main airport. Maybe another annoying example of HE's favouritism of Vietnam trade over Thai trade.)
Anyway, should I still be happy about the road construction, or for the mid-term future, say 2-5 years, will the road improvements, by relatively increasing the property values on the plan, lower the value of my land?
I bought a hard-title 600sqm bit a few years ago in an old village 3.5km SE of Pasar Cha. I now need the $ and would be happy to sell, but it looks like I'll need to hold on AT LEAST a couple of years to get what it was worth Jan 1st 2020. It's on a nice, dry, laterite road and the Village Chief lives in the house opposite. All we have done so far is fence it, other plans went on hold with the virus crash.
I had hoped ours would be one of the roads to be upgraded, but though they are quite close, our road isn't high-lit on the map.
The land was already 200m South of an asphalt road, and soon that will be a bigger and more connected asphalt road. Another road on the plan goes past 400m to the East as the crow flies, but 500m by road. I guess I will get easier access to the new airport, (But honestly I would far, far rather they kept the current airport location. For anyone in the NW of the country the current Siem Reap international airport is great, much easier than PNH. If in the future I must land 1.5 hrs further Southeast, on the border with Kompong Thom, BKK will likely become my main airport. Maybe another annoying example of HE's favouritism of Vietnam trade over Thai trade.)
Anyway, should I still be happy about the road construction, or for the mid-term future, say 2-5 years, will the road improvements, by relatively increasing the property values on the plan, lower the value of my land?
It was great they started the road work just as full on rains began. Any new pictures of the mess they caused?
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