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The Bad Impact of Illegally Parked Vehicle on the Side Street

There are many bad impacts of illegally parked vehicle along the side street:
If we travel along the streets in Phnom Penh, we will found that the side streets were being a parking place of restaurants and shops along that street.
So what are the impacts of parking vehicle along the side street?
Social Order: Parking vehicle along the public street on the side street, generating bad clutter on social order especially the aesthetic of the city.
Traffic jam: Parking the transportation along the streets is the main cause of traffic jam in Phnom Penh City. As we already knew that the streets in Phnom…

Why Phnom Penh’s residents don’t like walking?

One has noted that Phnom Penh’s residents do not like going on foots even they are going to near or far destination. There are a number of reasons which cause people not like to go on foots in the city:
Habitations: It becomes a habit to Phnom Penh’s resident that majority of them even going near or far destination the like to go by their transportation such as motor, car rather than going on foots. Some Cambodian people are materialism, they value modern things; therefore, this would be a reason that people do not like go by foots.
Street Conditions: Essentially most streets in Phnom Penh are not…

Who Should Involve in Solid Waste Management?

Trash really affects to the public health, environment and city beauty, if it is careless without proper packaging. To effective manage garbage, one needs to closely collaborate with different stakeholders:

The public: All people should understand about issues and impacts of trash on health, environment and city beauty. They should have strong wills in keeping their surroundings environment cleans. A proper trash packaging is simple by packaging garbage into to its kinds in separated plastic bag and throw it into the bin. Doing this, the trash will not mess up so that the trash collection…

2 More Lines of Public Bus are on the Study

2 new more lines of public bus will be put into the operation. They are going run on Mao Tse Tung and Kampucheakrom boulevards, Pa Socheatvong Said.
He also stressed that the plan will submit to the public works and transportation department for consideration and study whether the buses can run on the two boulevards or not. There were approximately 3,000 passengers who have took the first trial bus that have been running since 5 February 2014, he added.
Yet, there is no clear date whether when the two lines are going to run.
That is an interesting news that our city public transportation is expanding…

Official Launch the Public Transportation

On February 5, 2014, Phnom Penh City Hall and JICA had launched the public transportation to run on Monivong Blvd from Chbar Ampov market to the park near Chroy Chongva bridge.
This trial public transportation plan has put into the operation for one month from February 5, 2014 to March 5, 2014. Residents of Phnom Penh are really interesting and strongly support the public transportation plan, and they hope that the project will be successful execution, that would reduce traffic jams and traffic accident in Phnom Penh.

Recently Phnom Penh governor, Pa Socheatvong, confirmed that sooner the…

Flooding Campaign Final Map Released!

Flooding Campaign Final Map Came Out! From the beginning of the campaign running until ended (August to October 2013), Urban Voice has received 119 reports about flood in Phnom Penh area.
If you look at the map to see the flooding report on our website, you will noticeably see that virtually entire of Phnom Penh areas are flooded during rainy season. Some locations were flooded for several days while other places have flooded for over one week. This caused and affected to traffic congestion for the people’s traveling in Phnom Penh.
Based on the map of Urban Voice website, it shows that the areas…

Main Factors of Traffic Jams in Phnom Penh

Nowadays, road traffic in Phnom Penh is very busy because it is the place for educational schools, jobs and business activities. Particularly, Phnom Penh is the most important heart of economic zone of Cambodia. People from almost every province throughout the Kingdom of Cambodia were coming to live in the city – Pursuing their higher education and doing businesses. For the last few years, one has noticed that traffic jam is beings becoming the major concerns for whom are living in the city.
What do you think about traffic jam issue? What are the main causes of generating traffic jams in Phnom…