Original report from Phnom Penh
17 December 2009
An old motorbike with two large baskets affixed bounces slowly down a bumpy road in Kampot province. The poor condition of the road, which runs to the Prek Chak checkpoint on the Vietnam border, makes it nearly impossible to use, and this driver is one of the few people trying it these days.
Locals, government officials and economists say the ill repair of Kampot’s Road 33 does more than slow motorcycles: it slows trade and economic growth.
“There is no betterment in my business, because the road is too bad, where I have to spend more time and money both for traveling,” said Hun Tan, 51, whose entire business is the transporting of cow collars and plastic sacks from Vietnam for sale in Kampot’s market.
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