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.
