Let’s start with the name. “Tuk-tuk” is the name given to any motorized rickshaw. It was fi rst developed in Thailand in the 1960s when the government banned the human-powered “pedicab”, citing both the danger to its driver and passengers, and the traffic havoc created, when human-powered and gasoline engines tried to share busy city streets. There was also dismay from humanrights advocates who charged that peddle-powered
pedicabs full of large Western tourists were an affront to the human dignity of their drivers.
Read More in Cambodia Insight Website on Issue 5 Page 38.
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