Why Are All Roads in Cambodia Covered in Dust and Dirt?
- Orichá
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Why Are All Roads in Cambodia Covered in Dust and Dirt?
Travel around the neighborhood of Cambodia. Go to Laos, go to Vietnam, and go to Thailand... Look at how neat and clean the roadways are in most areas... But here in Cambodia, every road, new or old, seems to have heaps of dust and dirt on the shoulders everywhere... In Sihanoukville, they built some new roads from highway 4 into the city... Brand new concrete, clean and smooth... But within weeks of being finished, the shoulders of the road down into town were covered in dirt. Heaps of it... The construction isn't finished all around, of course, but it is like the people here are not capable of building something and finishing it properly, ever... Compared to Laos and Vietnam and Thailand, the road schemes seem very poorly managed...
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Maybe because there’s construction everywhere and sand and dust will blow around or get washed onto the roads.
Thailand and Vietnam have already had their construction phases. Now it’s Cambodia’s turn.
Thailand and Vietnam have already had their construction phases. Now it’s Cambodia’s turn.
pew, pew, pew, pew!
Vietnam, even Laos are commie dictatorships.
Scambodia is just a corrupt joke.
All the roads are covered with trash etc.
Presumably better oversight by the Jap ODA in Laos etc
Scambodia is just a corrupt joke.
All the roads are covered with trash etc.
Presumably better oversight by the Jap ODA in Laos etc
Scambodia is just a corrupt joke.''
Which haven of transparent democracy and clean government do you hail from, shaman?
I would guess, but that would be unfair.
Which haven of transparent democracy and clean government do you hail from, shaman?
I would guess, but that would be unfair.
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That's because of the mechanism to drain the rainfall. In Cambodia, this just flows of the side of the road. In more developed countries, this goes into a dedicated drainage system. So with every rain shower, the road gets cleaned up from all the fine dust.Orichá wrote: ↑Sun Jan 17, 2021 9:35 amTravel around the neighborhood of Cambodia. Go to Laos, go to Vietnam, and go to Thailand... Look at how neat and clean the roadways are in most areas... But here in Cambodia, every road, new or old, seems to have heaps of dust and dirt on the shoulders everywhere... In Sihanoukville, they built some new roads from highway 4 into the city... Brand new concrete, clean and smooth... But within weeks of being finished, the shoulders of the road down into town were covered in dirt. Heaps of it... The construction isn't finished all around, of course, but it is like the people here are not capable of building something and finishing it properly, ever... Compared to Laos and Vietnam and Thailand, the road schemes seem very poorly managed...
And you need a suitable drainage system, where the silt is separated from the water in each drainage pit. And every year or so, that silt deposit is collected from the pits. Easy
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There are loads of big and small construction sites and drain improvements. Many of these operations stack their sand on the roadside. I think they deliberately protrude onto the road so the workers have a bigger space to move in without traffic. So anyway in no time half the sand ends up spread all over the street. I know that in Bangkok this practice was banned when they decided to tackle air pollution, I'm not sure about other parts of Thailand, Vietnam or Laos.
Romantic Cambodia is dead and gone. It's with McKinley in the grave.
I'm sure some of you guys may not have been to Siem Reap recently, but holy shitball's it's a mess and constantly changing, we can only hope that it will be in a better state by wet season otherwise it will look a lot like shitsville did a couple of years ago.
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