Tales of death and despair when riding a motorbike in Myanmar made our writer reluctant to buy a bike in-country, but when he got out from behind Yangon’s Motorbike Curtain, he quickly learned that things weren’t nearly as bad as people were saying.
The Myanmar regime has launched a campaign to confiscate unlicensed cars and motorcycles, depriving owners who can’t afford licensed vehicles of essential transport, while avoiding tackling the corruption and policies that make legal vehicles too expensive for most people.
BY Frontier
