Traffic in Phnom Penh (Photo: The Jack Webster Foundation)Tuesday, February 05, 2008
Everyday.com.kh
Translated from Khmer by Heng Soy
Kep Chuktema, the governor of Phnom Penh, issued an order to arrest all vehicles violating the traffic law, and not to provide a resolution to these arrested vehicles for a long period of time in order to teach their owners a lesson. During a meeting held at the city hall on 04 February, Kep Chuktema told officials involved to arrest and hold these vehicles for a long duration before providing a resolution, in order to teach a lesson to their owners, in particular those who drive in the wrong traffic direction, and those who cause various accidents, or those who hit the street center dividers. Kep Chuktema said that the new traffic law has been in effect for a long period of time and, by now, the population should be aware of it already. He said that, therefore, from now on, the city authority will no longer be lenient on these traffic violations anymore.
5 comments:
Do it, don't just talk! And don't let those stupid high ranking blood suckers sit above law. I bet all ordinary Khmers will support that. Hope Hun Sen get rougher on his cronies.
I applaud Mr. Kep Chuktema's action to enforce the traffic laws when it should have been enforced a long time ago. True Mr. Chuktema speaks with common sense "that by now the population ought to know what is right and wrong when driving and breaking the law at the same time." To control any society, one must have a good measures of enforcement according to rules and regulations set forth by the government. Anyone who caught violating the law, not just the traffic law, must be punished with penalties and fines and even imprisonment in some cases. However, these enforcement must not be placed upon the poor and the unfortunates, but even the high ranking officials, the riches, the wealthiest and the powerful ones must obey these traffic law as well. The term "No One Above the Law" should explain what that means clearly.
Thank You
ST
I don't think this tough action of AH Kep Chuktema will reduce traffic accidents!
Here are my reasons!
All the fucken roads in Cambodia are designed to kill Cambodian people because there are no clear divisions between people walking or moving traffic and the fucken streets are too small to be useful! The whole streets and even street corners need to be redesigned base on safety issues!
There are not many traffic signs or signal lights that can warn Cambodian people ahead of time to watch out for such as speed limit signs, curves, people traffic, right of way...
There are too many stupid Cambodian people who think that by owning cars or mopeds and it is a status of symbol and so every fucken time they hit the fucken roads and they like to show off by driving too fast and too close and insist on having the right of way!
I don’t believe for a moment that with all the fucken driver training on such congested roads will help prepare any student driver to handle the real world demanding and dangerous situation where the fucken cars, moped, and people can pop out anywhere at anytime and the fucken blind spot are everywhere at every corners without regard for human life!
I don't believe for a moment that stupid Cambodian authorities have the will power to enforce any laws even the fucken traffic laws!
As long as people don't change their behavior and more casualties will continue to happen in the future!
By the way for those people who have a lot of money can always bribe the authorities to get off the hook and continue to drive in dangerous manner until one day they become part of statistic!
Khmer/Cambodian: The Cambodian people customarily have a proclivity to ostentatiously to live in flatulent lives to prove their status symbol, even if we have to be slave to our mortgages or loans (those who live in the U.S.),because we (Khmer/Cambodian) have to please the so-called class-conscious society.
H.S.
i travel around the world lot. i noticed in many asian countries i've been to, the roads are very chaotic, to say the least. i don't think it's just in cambodia; it is everywhere including thailand, vietnam, laos, china, malaysia, indonesia, philipines, and many others, even in africa. the only places i see any road order is the USA, Japan, European countries, Australia, Canada, and a few other places in the world, but forget asian country, except for a few countries like singapore, korea and japan. i can't say the same for others. so any approach by city official like kep chutama is better than not doing anything at all. i don't think it the law or lack of it; i think the people and law enforcer , especially law enforcer should tackle this problem because people are not really use to driving in the orderly fashion like the the US where police will ticket you very fast for any traffic violation. cambodia should consult with experts in law enforcement from the USA for help with their traffic problems.
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