N17 Travelling to Taunggyi Part 2

•   Motor Cycles

Motor cycles are vehicles used mostly in underdeveloped countries, where people are poor and public transports are not effective.

Myanmar is a poor country where motor cars are very expensive only until recently when the prices dropped, but even then still expensive than other Asean countries.

So only a few people own cars and about 4 or 5 years earlier many people cannot even buy a motor cycle. But during these years China produce many motor cycles and the price has gone so low that many people in our country now can buy them.

The government, due to they don’t have an efficient way of transportation for the people keep a blind eye on this issue and doesn’t care to have the motor cycles registered. So these motor cycles doesn’t have licenses.

Now people in the rural areas are using motor cycles to go places and they also carry people and things by charging an amount of money. This may be called motor cycle taxi. Although it is dangerous it is still efficient for the people who use them.

The roads in our country do not have a special lane for motor cycles or bicycles. So these vehicles use the car road. The bad thing about motor cycles is that they are a big nuisance for the cars. The drivers of the cars have to take much care when they drive past towns and villages.

Every towns and villages have a lot of motor cycles now. Our native town Taunggyi is also one of them.

Although Taunggyi has a good reputation that it is a clean town, it is not very good to live in now. It has grown so big and crowded and dusty with many houses and motor cycles and also cars.

I think I cannot live long enough to see our town having a good public transportation with reduced number of motor cycles.