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[–] [email protected] 64 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I assure you, we also use 3D techniques in Canada.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago (2 children)

With our freeze thaw cycle… I’m sure it’s much, much worse than Great Britain.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Same down here in New England. We have a bunch of granite boulders waiting to move and drop a big cavity too.

Digging fence post holes here is ridiculous. You get maybe 1 in 20 that doesn’t have a 20-80lb rock partly in the way. It’s why we hav so many miles of rock walls in the woods from 200+ years ago.

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Try driving in Canada in the winter. They're in 4d at this point

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The roads in Norway are better in winter because the snow plows scrape the snow and ice flat so its actually quite smooth.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I like the parts of Canada where we don’t plow. Just toss a bit of sand on it and drive over top of it until it melts in the spring. Kinda works in like a “lowered expectations” way.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I've seen roads in Finland where they'd basically rake the road like a skiing piste. If you just leave it, it'll turn to ice eventually, and with several centimetres of rock hard ice the only traction is from making the ice uneven.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Me, descendant of Finns: I need to return to the Motherland, this America thing seems like it's going down hard

Me seeing comments like this: Oh, nvm, I'd rather do a civil war.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Snowpack is really nice to drive on, you just have to slow down a little. it’s way better than the fucking corrosive salt brine they use so morons can keep driving 80mph in a blizzard here. Not to mention what dumping all that sulfurs and magnesium chloride into our lakes and rivers is probably doing to us.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Trust me. The potholes in Canada are real too.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

It's like the surface of the fucking moon sometimes

[–] [email protected] 39 points 8 months ago

I’ve lived in Canada my whole life, and I’ve never seen a road so well kept that it needed pothole stickers.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I visited South Korea and drove while I was there, they had loads of fake speed bumps where they were just painted on but had no actual bump. Definitely made you slow down if you didn't know the area.

They also had lots of poles with flashing blue and red lights, so you thought there were cops ahead until you got close enough to realise it was just a pole.

The place is playing full-on psychic warfare on the roads.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 8 months ago

Speed bump stickers make sense, but fake potholes are a terrible idea as they'll get people to swerve around them to avoid wrecking their car. It sounds stupidly dangerous.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Imagine you thought that the 3rd one was another fake, but it was real one. Car got almost destroyed.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Wonder how many idiots that weren't paying attention have swerved to avoid them...

[–] [email protected] 27 points 8 months ago

This was my first thought. Hey! Let's freak out the people who are already driving recklessly. Nothing bad could possibly happen if we do that.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago

India: You guys are slowing down for potholes?

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago (5 children)

This has me wondering. Every country thinks they have the worst pot holes. Is there anywhere where the people are like "yes our roads are excellent actually"

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

Yes, and we like our secrets. Stay away.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Wouldn't say perfect, but compared to what's south of us it defo feels that way

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago (2 children)

This is dumb as shit because canadian winters are much more harsh than UK. Asphalt degrades faster in harsher winters. Doubt they're hitting -50C in the middle of January

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Don't underestimate just how badly we Brits maintain the roads.

The whole country is a patchwork mess.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

My local MP came around yesterday to brag that he and the local Tory councillor have made plans to fix a pothole nearby.

The bar is so low it’s below the floor.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I can't tell you how many times I've seen this same meme but with the countries changed.

Same images and everything.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

Here's a revolutionary idea: speed bumps.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Or design roads that feel like you should be going slower. Trees, narrower lanes, more walking/biking infrastructure all help people naturally slow down. Big open stretches like pictured with the stickers don't feel like there is a reason to be going slow so people don't

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

There's speed bumps where I live. There's also a fuckton of potholes and there having to pave a mile of road which will take months.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Can be a bit too much

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

In my area I have speed bumps with potholes

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

In Florida, we use Canadian drivers to slow traffic.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I feel like this is more likely to cause damage to cars, because now people will think real potholes are just stickers

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Or people get into accidents trying to avoid potholes.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (2 children)

🤣 Bullshit, drive through Quebec and you'll see potholes the size of the grand canyon.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Can confirm, the yearly deep freeze and thawing really does a number on the roads there.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

I certainly hope that's a slight exaggeration.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

Man that made me think if a city just covered a pothole with a street sticker. Somebody just cruising along and then cathunk

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I've literally never seen these stickers anywhere up here. We have organic potholes aplenty.

These would be such a nightmare for civil engineers. You're just throwing down a random shape on the street, without any consideration for traffic accumulation.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

Look at Britain plagiarizing by stealing pictures taken in Lansing, MI.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

And those 3D versions work, that I can confirm. Lost a tire to one a few years ago.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Where? I don't leave my home province much but I've never seen this.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

It’s fake.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

In California it’s 3D, just at batshit crazy speeds lol

E: if you’re not stuck in traffic

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Jesus I'll just drive on the grass

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

The roads in Canada are literal trash compared to UK wtf

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

and we here we have:
roads: optional

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Baltimore, MD: "Am I a joke to you?"

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