Bike Lane

The Biking Lane!
Has any Cambodian realize they are at a very low edge of sorting out traffics for bikes. Normally, at everyday driving, you will see that bikes are almost at every part of the street where they try to sneak out and compete to get their way up front.

However, most of bike drivers fail to realize that there is already a set-aside lane for them at the very right end of each main road. What so funny about this is that no matter what that is always there ready for them, bikers choose not to take it, and we would love to know the reasons why. Some lines below tell briefly, though not all, about why people choose to ignore the biking lane and bikers choose to join the others' lane.

The most important thing and foremost is the knowledge mainstreaming from the government. If you ask 10 bikers in town, you may find only 1 who knows the bike lane, and if continue asking will he/she choose to drive in that lane. I guarantee the answer would be a "No!" Government has been so poor in telling their people about the bike lane even they have that type of lane in town. There is no knowledge sharing on social medias, TV, online network, etc. related to this; hence, nobody would ever know. In addition, they never have the will to tell this to the people. Normally, only those who study in laws and those who works in law enforcement would know such things. However, some people, even knowing about this, wouldn't choose to comply.

Another reason hitting this is that it has become a general aspect that people do not drive in their lane. In other words, the practices have overtaken the law. Every biker would hit any other lane they find a space for their bike.

Bikers sometimes choose to hit the other lane on the road because their lane was taken. Look at the above image, you could see that one small truck is parking on a motor lane while another saloon car is coming in a reverse direction stepping on the bike lane line while the bikers had to join the other two available lanes. What a Fail!