Bridge ban enforced

City Hall on Friday officially issued its ban on trucks weighing more than 3 tonnes from using the Cambodian-Japanese Friendship Bridge until cracks discovered last month in a pillar on the bridge’s eastern end are repaired, a city spokesman said yesterday. Long Dimanche said police had been stationed at the nearly 50-year-old span to turn back vehicles exceeding the weight limit, and that such vehicles would have to use Prek Phnov Bridge – nearly 10 kilometres to the north. …

Phak Seangly
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