Soldato
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In Portugal all the toll roads are perfect. Supposedly the EU funded a lot of them but the locals are too stingy to pay a toll so only tourists use them, meaning they're super quiet and like new!
This is a photo of a road to a hotel in South - East Europe where many UK tourists go every winter
Japan has heated roads for winter!
In Portugal all the toll roads are perfect. Supposedly the EU funded a lot of them but the locals are too stingy to pay a toll so only tourists use them, meaning they're super quiet and like new!
Looks like the roads last time I was in Redhill, but with smaller potholes!!
Average speed in the Monaco GP is 90mph.Monaco, they have to be good for 180mph
Japan.
I have never seen roads so well maintained.
The pavements are the same. There was a slab being repaired, and there were two workers at each end with lit batons directing pedestrians, barriers all the way along and two working on the pavement itself. More warning workers than actual workers!
I'm not saying it's necessarily an economically sensible use of funds, but it's not hard to understand why unemployment rates are so low there.
Our roads are an absolute embarrassment.
They promise more money for it, but it's not nearly enough. When you do the maths on the headline figures it works out to the most piddly amounts for each of the local councils, so it's not a wonder they all just do cheap patching jobs. There's more money for major infrastructure like motorways, but at a local level things are just terrible.What do your politicians say about it?
Ours here are terrible a**holes which say they don't have money, and have no willingness at all to find money.
But... even I can find money with different EU funds and projects, the World Bank also supports infrastructure projects.
They promise more money for it, but it's not nearly enough. When you do the maths on the headline figures it works out to the most piddly amounts for each of the local councils, so it's not a wonder they all just do cheap patching jobs. There's more money for major infrastructure like motorways, but at a local level things are just terrible.
The best roads I have seen was in Southern Spain around the Andalucia region. Billiard board smooth roads without any potholes. Such as this as a random example.
One of the problems in this country is that the services run under the roads so as soon as a new road is laid, it's being dug up again.
They work overnight here in the UK, but not in residential areas unless it's an emergency of some sort. The amount of residents who complain about overnight roadworks, even emergency ones, is massive!Japanese roads make ours look like third world.
They often work at night to fix them to avoid disruption.
Yep, and it seems to be getting gradually worse each year. Despite the mild winter and lack of freezing. I have never seen the roads in such poor state with so many disentergrating pot holes. With no attempt to even patch.Certainly isn't the UK. Some of my local roads look like the moon, it's get patched up and before you even realise it the patches fail and we're back to square one.
Yep, and it seems to be getting gradually worse each year. Despite the mild winter and lack of freezing. I have never seen the roads in such poor state with so many disentergrating pot holes. With no attempt to even patch.