This isn’t true. Have you seen American roads? Just google somewhere in a big town or city and zoom in.
Britain is the new Balkans
Meme made by someone who has never made any effort to see what its like outside their local area.
Oh lord, I would be SO HAPPY if Indianapolis roads looked like that 🥲
Roads in Italy make this look like Silverstone
Italians also pay thousands in road tax
‘Only in Britain’ says the person who is clearly unaware that the rest of the world exists.
At least some of your pot holes have been repaired, you lucky bastard.
Bodge on bodge on bodge on bodge 😂
When even the pothole repairs have potholes you know it’s time to replace the road.
Those are ad hoc repairs. They’re ugly and don’t last long, but they’re needed until the proper repair is done. The proper repair will usually be done in the spring on roads that are generally in good condition, but some roads are already planned to be redone entirely, so repairing them before that would be a waste of money, therefore they just keep putting those ad hoc patches instead over and over. All big cities have roads like this. Although, it is true that it’s been getting worse across the UK for the last few decades. It will take another few to recover from all the Tory governments.
At least the Roman’s knew how to build roads
We should go back to cobblestone streets lol, most of these roads in the central parts of older towns will have intact Victorian cobblestone roads right underneath the tarmac on the surface.
That’s completely untrue – roads in American cities are often potholed moonscapes! At least these ones have been filled!
Where I live the footpath are in worse state along a main road having been dug up x number of times. There is just no control on the work in terms of quality control.
And same both for roads and buses. Just the lame excuse to blame the weather and / or too much usage.
That’s Peter street in Altrincham
Not a patch on Portugal (‘scuse the pun).
And Australia. And France. And New Zealand. And USA.
This comes from all the utility infrastructure companies digging up the road on a rolling monthly rota.
It’s a beautiful sight
Not true! They look like that in Ireland as well.
i am begging you guys to look at the arse end of hungary. it’s mental
That road has so many patches it looks like a grandmothers quilt
I’ve worked in Poland. They have both the best and worst.
We’re lucky we have tarmac.
I see they’ve covered up most of the double yellow lines again too. It’ll be double parked right down there tomorrow. 🤦🏻
They’ll be back in a few weeks to rip it all up again, then again a few weeks later to resurface.
It’s job security
This, kids, is what happens when you put a plaster over a bullet hole, then continuously poke the plaster 24/7.
It’s just reenactment of the great cobbelstone streets era and the glorious empirical feeling it gives.
Perfectly encapsulates our country. We slap a temporary fix on something instead of properly planning and rebuilding it, keep doing that for decades, then wonder why everything is a pile of shit.
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This isn’t true. Have you seen American roads? Just google somewhere in a big town or city and zoom in.
Britain is the new Balkans
Meme made by someone who has never made any effort to see what its like outside their local area.
Oh lord, I would be SO HAPPY if Indianapolis roads looked like that 🥲
Roads in Italy make this look like Silverstone
Italians also pay thousands in road tax
‘Only in Britain’ says the person who is clearly unaware that the rest of the world exists.
At least some of your pot holes have been repaired, you lucky bastard.
Bodge on bodge on bodge on bodge 😂
When even the pothole repairs have potholes you know it’s time to replace the road.
Those are ad hoc repairs. They’re ugly and don’t last long, but they’re needed until the proper repair is done. The proper repair will usually be done in the spring on roads that are generally in good condition, but some roads are already planned to be redone entirely, so repairing them before that would be a waste of money, therefore they just keep putting those ad hoc patches instead over and over. All big cities have roads like this. Although, it is true that it’s been getting worse across the UK for the last few decades. It will take another few to recover from all the Tory governments.
At least the Roman’s knew how to build roads
We should go back to cobblestone streets lol, most of these roads in the central parts of older towns will have intact Victorian cobblestone roads right underneath the tarmac on the surface.
That’s completely untrue – roads in American cities are often potholed moonscapes! At least these ones have been filled!
Where I live the footpath are in worse state along a main road having been dug up x number of times. There is just no control on the work in terms of quality control.
And same both for roads and buses. Just the lame excuse to blame the weather and / or too much usage.
That’s Peter street in Altrincham
Not a patch on Portugal (‘scuse the pun).
And Australia. And France. And New Zealand. And USA.
This comes from all the utility infrastructure companies digging up the road on a rolling monthly rota.
It’s a beautiful sight
Not true! They look like that in Ireland as well.
i am begging you guys to look at the arse end of hungary. it’s mental
That road has so many patches it looks like a grandmothers quilt
I’ve worked in Poland. They have both the best and worst.
We’re lucky we have tarmac.
I see they’ve covered up most of the double yellow lines again too. It’ll be double parked right down there tomorrow. 🤦🏻
They’ll be back in a few weeks to rip it all up again, then again a few weeks later to resurface.
It’s job security
This, kids, is what happens when you put a plaster over a bullet hole, then continuously poke the plaster 24/7.
It’s just reenactment of the great cobbelstone streets era and the glorious empirical feeling it gives.
Perfectly encapsulates our country. We slap a temporary fix on something instead of properly planning and rebuilding it, keep doing that for decades, then wonder why everything is a pile of shit.
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