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[来源: CIR] [分类提示: NEWS] 标题: Opinion: No Garage, No Car: A Smarter Future for Phnom Penh By Aronsakda Ses Anyone who has tried to walk in Phnom Penh knows how impossible it is to stay on the sidewalks. Be it a residential street, a busy commercial thoroughfare, or even a prominent boulevard, parked cars choke sidewalks, forcing pedestrians to make detours. Private developers and City Hall have tried to alleviate the issue by constructing more parking spaces. Yet, no matter how much parking space is constructed, there never seems to be enough. Currently the city has less than 0.98 square kilometers of registered parking space. According to my estimation, the parking area required for all private vehicles in Phnom Penh is 22.8 square kilometers, or roughly the size of Russey Keo district. Parking spaces are in short supply, and with private vehicle ownership continuing to rise, the issue will become more acute. Yet adding more parking to a city, although obvious, is not the orrect solution. In fact, too much parking can lead to a number of problems, as I have written previously.  With Phnom Penh on average having about one car and four motorcycles for every household, it would make more sense to carefully control the number of private vehicles, thus reducing congestion, pollution, and danger posed by vehicles. Measures to curb the growing ownership of private vehicles, especially in dense urban centres like Phnom Penh, can take many forms. The government could revise its annual vehicle tax to be based