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I was not aware of this at all but I am not surprised. It definitely seems like a race to finish, without much focus on anything else. To get from Sihanoukvill
by tomglynch 7y ago
I was not aware of this at all but I am not surprised. It definitely seems like a race to finish, without much focus on anything else.
To get from Sihanoukville to where we were staying we had to take a main road that was constantly used by trucks getting to and from construction sites. It was a dirt road that had been torn to pieces, including major major potholes, diversions into oncoming traffic to avoid these, huge traffic jams due to this, and at one point the powerlines had collapsed across the road, and had been left there, running live with cars literally driving over them all day long. Definitely a huge accident waiting to happen.
The local infrastructure is just not able to sustain this level of development. And the unfortunate thing was, the development companies were not giving back enough to actually fix up the roads and other chaos they caused, so the locals end up worse off.
- 3131s 7y agoThe roads are bad everywhere. There's really nothing resembling a highway in the entire country despite the massive development happening in Phnom Penh too. Tons of people die in road accidents because semi trucks, construction vehicles, buses, cars, motos, bicycles, pedestrians and animals all share the two lane "national roads". I have personally seen a lot of dead or dying people on the road here unfortunately.