ABC Radio Australia
Ten years ago nine thousand cyclo drivers made a living pedalling people and their possessions around the streets of Phnom Penh. It was the Cambodian capital's long standing foot powered taxi. But today there are just thirteen hundred cyclo drivers left.
Presenter: Robert Carmichael
Speakers: Im Sambath, Head, Cyclo Conservation and Career Association; Oum Sok, cyclo driver; Margie Edmonds, Australian tourist
And that's just the kind of endorsement Im Sambath hopes will guarantee the cyclo's survival in Phnom Penh for another 70 years.
THIS IS ROBERT CARMICHAEL IN PHNOM PENHListen: Windows Media
ROBERT CARMICHAEL: Over the past 70 years the three-wheeled bicycle taxi known as the cyclo has been a classic Phnom Penh sight, with its bucket seat between the two front wheels for the passengers, and the driver perched high up behind them above the rear wheel, pedalling away.
The cyclo was brought here by the French from neighbouring Vietnam back when the nations were, along with Laos, known as French Indochine.
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