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Uploaded by on Sep 4, 2007

November 2006
Enterprising locals in Battambang, Cambodia, have developed a unique railway. It's made from recycled tank wheels, small motorcycle engines and lashings of bamboo.

Cambodia's main train service only runs four times a month and derailments are common. Little wonder locals prefer a different option. 'Norries' are little more than bamboo slabs with wheels and run on the state-built track. With a top speed of 50 km per hour, the norry network is far superior to the train. As one driver explains; "People like these because they're fast and on time".

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  • the only reason im here is because i looked up Bamboo on Wheels after i saw the t-mobile commercial

  • they'd best!

    i admire their ingenuity and how they have the freedom to practice it!

    they're lucky they can have norries and drive "just so", here we can't even drive a bicycle without a helmet, our government's turning us into idiots!

    may they roll for a long time!

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  • 6:29 -> Ultimative Ghetto Gangster's :D

  • @Rickyrab One word: tort.

  • I'm not going to disagree with general praise of personal initiative, but please note that the host said the norrie fleet "boomed" in the 90s when the UN provided motors. I also have to wonder if the "legitimate" train moves so slowly because it has to worry about not running over norries.

    Still, a shining example of promise of libertarianism in practice! So superior to us middle-class sheeple, with our indoor plumbing and dependable electricity ... can you detect the sarcasm, disciPauls?

  • @farmersfuel fuck the communists! Worldwide!

  • PKP IC

  • All the Communist-loving leftists in Europe and the US should move to Cambodia. They could have a wonderful time living in filth, slaving endlessly just to maintain a near-starvation level of subsistence, and riding shitty little carts up and down railroad tracks. Periodically, they could murder anyone who excels at anything. It would be a leftist's paradise.

  • This is the sort of get-up-and-go that is so missing from America's under-utilized railways :-)

  • muito perigoso, fora de questão, decadende, sem segurança, para tôdos não Aprovo...... que isso gente, que esses governantes ficam fazendo ai, cruza os braços e o povo é que sofre, sai do comodismo, governo do Camboja, arregace as mangas e recupere suas ferrovias o melhor meio de transporte que existe, já estamos falando em trens Bala, e ai desse jeito

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