Countries with Best Roads, Infrastructure

[Faustus]

Oh know spending money on big mass transit projects where you have the highest concentration of people.
Makes perfect sense and I don't live near London.

How can you ever hope to re-balance the economy when you aren't investing in the infrastructure in the areas where you want to re-balance????? Try commuting round up North and just take a close look at both public and private transport - quite shocking.

 

[Glaucus]

Oy

How can you ever hope to re-balance the economy when you aren't investing in the infrastructure in the areas where you want to re-balance????? Try commuting round up North and just take a close look at both public and private transport - quite shocking.

It makes.no sense to spread money equally on public transport, and despite what a lot of younliekto make up this is not a north south divide. You ahvent several cities up north with good public transport as they are big enough to justify the money.
Public transport costs a huge amount and it makes no sense to spend money where population density is low.
You guys really have an issue.
And rebalancing the economy won't work like you want. You think you would just have more money. But house prices would go up.

 

[4K8KW10]

How can you ever hope to re-balance the economy when you aren't investing in the infrastructure in the areas where you want to re-balance????? Try commuting round up North and just take a close look at both public and private transport - quite shocking.

And rebalancing the economy won't work like you want. You think you would just have more money. But house prices would go up.

Investors always look for proper infrastructure. Investors build factories next to airports or large enough highways.
Investors don't build factories or real estate in the middle of nowhere, without the proper infrastructure built there first (there are exceptions in South-East Europe).

If everything works without breaking the laws, etc, the better infrastructure always brings a more developed economy, and the more developed economy brings more money.

 

[4K8KW10]

POTHOLE CRISIS: Shock number of UK roads in poor condition REVEALED https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/cars/933967/Pothole-crisis-shock-number-roads-poor-condition-UK

 

[4K8KW10]

Update on the news story: http://home.bt.com/news/uk-news/pot...1m-a-month-in-car-repair-bills-11364269966155

Potholes are costing drivers and insurers at least £1 million a month in total due to massive car repair bills, according to estimates from the AA.

The motoring organisation said the number of pothole-related claims it had seen during the first four months of 2018 alone was more than for the whole of 2017.

Based on its share of Britain’s car insurance market, the broker estimated that nationally, there will have been over 4,200 claims for pothole damage so far this year compared with just over 3,500 estimated claims across last year.

It described the number of potholes as an “epidemic” and a “national embarrassment”.

With an estimated average repair bill of around £1,000, the total this year so far comes to “an eye-watering” £4.2 million, it said, or more than £1 million per month, where drivers consider they have no option but to make an insurance claim.

How is it even possible

 

[4K8KW10]

Protests in Romania because of poor road infrastructure:

https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-europe-47582694

Romania has one of the shortest motorway networks in the European Union, with just 806km (500 miles) throughout the whole country. This despite having a land mass almost equal to that of the UK.

"We want to unify the population, we have an ideal — to have motorways," he told the BBC.

"I feel that we are united," shouted Mr Mandachi above a din of honking horns. "I've never lived through a moment of such solidarity amongst all Romanians."

According to Mr Ciurea, poor roads cost Romania's economy billions every year. "We estimate that around 2% of Romania's GDP is lost on road access," he says. "That's huge."
"When all regions of the country are connected by motorways, our customers will get their products faster, with lower delivery costs," said the firm's country manager Alex Bratu.

World’s smallest motorway shames a nation

 

[Roland Butter]

The ROI's major roads and M/Ways are excellent.

 

[4K8KW10]

Very enlightening read:

Russia has since the 19th century been notorious for the poor quality of its roads, so much so that there is a malicious saying asserting that the country has two major problems: fools and roads. Looking at the European Union of today, we must note that on the first parameter Russia clearly has taken a giant leap ahead (if they ever lagged behind), but the quality of roads still leaves much to be desired. But thankfully there has been immense progress in this respect, too, and with Russia’s newly adopted grand national plan on development of the countries road network the picture might within a few years change altogether.

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After his reelection in March 2018, Putin ordered a further push in road building resulting in a grand national plan to develop Russia’s road network by 2024 with nearly $100 billion in investments. This forms part of a broader strategic program to improve the Russian economy, demographics and infrastructure with public and private funding amounting to a total of $400 billion. Thanks to Russian purchasing power parity advantage and the much lower construction costs than in Western countries in general, Russia actually gets much more mileage for the money. We expect that the corresponding program in any Western country would cost at least half a trillion US dollars. These investments will by 2024 bring some 5200 more kilometers of expressway (most of that by 2022), bringing the grand total to 7,600 km. The Putin presidency will then by 2024 have seen a 20-fold increase of this crucial road infrastructure.

Infrastructure boom – new bridges and airports also all over
This report forms part of Awara’s series on Putin’s incredible infrastructure investments. In this link you can read about the magnificent new bridges being built all over the country: Putin the Pontiff – Bridge maker. And here is another one on the amazing new airports cropping up all over: See For Yourself – All the Amazing Airports of “Stagnating Russia”.

https://www.awaragroup.com/blog/impressive-progress-of-russian-roads/