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Post by elstoof on Jun 1, 2022 14:03:07 GMT
Motorways are among the best maintained and safest in Europe, city streets are absolutely shagged with potholes and country lanes are not much better
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Post by スコットランド on Jun 1, 2022 14:06:47 GMT
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Post by スコットランド on Jun 1, 2022 14:07:48 GMT
OK, so car reviews are referring to potholes in normal towns etc?
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Post by elstoof on Jun 1, 2022 14:19:12 GMT
Car reviewers are referring to the awful roads in the places you would mostly be driving, yes. Just Google image search for worst potholes London, every single picture is absolutely typical of what you’ll see on 9/10 roads
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Post by スコットランド on Jun 1, 2022 14:24:27 GMT
Car reviewers are referring to the awful roads in the places you would mostly be driving, yes. Just Google image search for worst potholes London, every single picture is absolutely typical of what you’ll see on 9/10 roads Just the usual lack of investment I imagine? |
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Post by scanline on Jun 1, 2022 14:26:18 GMT
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Jun 1, 2022 14:29:34 GMT
Car reviewers are referring to the awful roads in the places you would mostly be driving, yes. Just Google image search for worst potholes London, every single picture is absolutely typical of what you’ll see on 9/10 roads Just the usual lack of investment I imagine? A combination of that and us being sick of experts. Somehow, around here, whenever a pothole is patched it reappears in six months twice as big. We seemingly have nobody left in the county/country who knows how to fill a pot hole and not eventually destroy half of the road |
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Post by elstoof on Jun 1, 2022 14:46:58 GMT
The usual papering over of cracks for a short term fix. Hole in the road? Tip some tarmac in and stamp it flat, never mind the fact that it’ll crack all round the edges after winter and leave a bigger hole. When they do finally decide to resurface the road properly, you generally have a utility digging a trench through it less than a year later which will crack all along the seam soon enough
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Post by Sarfrin on Jun 1, 2022 14:54:31 GMT
They're generally better imho. Some of the roads in the US and Europe are atrocious. They just tend to be very narrow and windy and have fun hazards like sheep and pheasants in the middle of the road. If you're in the countryside that is.
Then again, I haven't driven in 10 years, so I still assume cars have radios, manual gears, tactile buttons, steering wheels etc... and I'm probably pretty out of touch.
The roads around us have got noticeably worse in the last few years. They're officially in a state of 'managed decline' according to the council. |
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Post by zagibu on Jun 1, 2022 15:25:45 GMT
Haven't British roads been built by the Romans? A few potholes should probably be expected.
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Post by alastair on Jun 1, 2022 21:09:57 GMT
Motorways are among the best maintained and safest in Europe, city streets are absolutely shagged with potholes and country lanes are not much better My relatively recent experience of driving back from Germany through Northern France and then through the tunnel would contradict this. Autoroute was lovely. M20 from Folkestone was fucking awful. |
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Post by drhickman1983 on Jun 1, 2022 21:13:49 GMT
As a non-driver but as a passenger, all I know is that when travelling back from Wales to England, as soon as we crossed the border into Herefordshire the road quality dipped exponentially.
A quirk of the border meant the road went back into Wales for a short stint, where it became noticeably smoother again. Before becoming a holey mess again when we back into England.
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Post by Sarfrin on Jun 1, 2022 21:21:35 GMT
Done a lot of motorway driving today. Lots of damaged surfaces/potholes.
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Post by Goban on Jun 1, 2022 21:26:13 GMT
The problem with UK roads is the fact that repairs have been privatised. There is no incentive to do a proper long term repair. Patch it up, and maybe if you still have the contract, you get to do the job again in a few years.
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Post by zephro on Jun 1, 2022 22:57:44 GMT
Also maintanence of various roads falls under different jurisdictions. Major roads are a Department for Transport problem with the Highways agency, local roads are up to the local council, though partly paid for from grants from the DfT. Or in London sometimes TfL sometimes the council. But guess who decides which non Tory councils aren't getting that pot of money?
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Post by Sarfrin on Jun 1, 2022 23:00:58 GMT
My council is a Tory council though and the roads are still fucked. They're just utterly incompetent at anything except stealing public money for themselves.
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Post by zephro on Jun 1, 2022 23:04:55 GMT
I may just be twitchy after the London Mayor election last year where the Tories refused to agree proper TfL funding, attempting to dump more responsibility on to TfL regarding roads, while cutting the budget or demanding it was paid for from train fares. Unless you voted for Shaun Bailey, then it'd all be fine.
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Post by Sarfrin on Jun 1, 2022 23:27:38 GMT
Oh I don't doubt they threaten that sort of thing. They just don't pay up even if they've got their way. Proper sociopaths.
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Post by Bill in the rain on Jun 2, 2022 0:18:10 GMT
I remember when I drove across the US I was shocked by the state of the interstates. Admittedly, there weren't that many cars, so I assume it's not a priority, but they were actively dangerous at points. You'd be driving along and suddenly hit a fucking canyon in the road and your car would be jolted off towards the edge of the road. Driving around country lanes in the South West was always more like rally driving for me, so maybe I just flew over any potholes  The main issue I remember was that there was one stretch of the road into town that the electricity/water/gas/cable companies kept digging up every bloody month, so it ended up as a patchwork of bumpy resurfacing. Then again, the road I take into Tokyo every day has the exact same problem, so maybe that's universal. |
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Post by mrharvest on Jun 2, 2022 9:32:55 GMT
I think we should ditch the 24 hour clock for a more sensible kiloclock and months and weeks should also go, what nonsense is that months are different number of days. Just basic day 134 of year 12022 at 450 time. So much simpler.
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Post by elstoof on Jun 2, 2022 9:39:11 GMT
The French used decimal time for a while
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Post by スコットランド on Jun 2, 2022 11:52:03 GMT
Motorways are among the best maintained and safest in Europe, city streets are absolutely shagged with potholes and country lanes are not much better My relatively recent experience of driving back from Germany through Northern France and then through the tunnel would contradict this. Autoroute was lovely. M20 from Folkestone was fucking awful. IME the French roll motorways are the best, you do pay extra but they’re minter and mega smooth. |
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Post by zagibu on Jun 2, 2022 13:14:44 GMT
The French used decimal time for a while There are still 100 minute hour clocks in some industrial plants here in Switzerland. |
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Post by Fake_Blood on Jun 2, 2022 13:24:00 GMT
The French used decimal time for a while There are still 100 minute hour clocks in some industrial plants here in Switzerland. So what if we divided the day into 1000 units, called beats? |
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Post by gammonbanter on Jun 2, 2022 14:12:16 GMT
Does a day have to be a thing anymore?
I know we are regulated by our circadian rhythm, but with the internet, working from home, shift working and more of a global mindset surely we can do with our time not being linked to the sun? I love timestamp, but I'd struggle using in context of my life!
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Post by Fake_Blood on Jun 2, 2022 15:00:31 GMT
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Post by zagibu on Jun 2, 2022 16:05:22 GMT
I always thought Swatch beats were a good idea. They should have pushed it harder, should have sponsored an atomic clock for the metrological institute that counts beats. Should have made android clock widgets with beats.
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Post by elstoof on Jun 2, 2022 16:13:53 GMT
What makes it a good idea?
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Post by zagibu on Jun 3, 2022 8:58:56 GMT
That you have one time for everyone on Earth, and that the distribution is roughly minute based, but neatly fits into a nice base10 number.
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Post by elstoof on Jun 3, 2022 9:02:49 GMT
A Universal time zone has potential benefits but it’s not exclusive to swatch beats. What benefits are there from a base10 timing method though
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