partial_accumen 123 points 3 years ago

That happens in the States too between state borders. I secretly think that States put extra effort into the area JUST at the borders to highlight the difference.

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SonnyVabitch 85 points 3 years ago

It must be quite common where there's not much love is lost between neighbours.

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siriusmart 14 points 3 years ago

this is brilliant, as a londoner, im saving this

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Gargantu8 1 point 3 years ago

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whyNotSquirrel 2 points 3 years ago

I mean, why would a city/country/district pay for another one when they all have found for those things, but indeed it looks like a statement here

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subignition 28 points 3 years ago

I don't think that's unreasonable at all, actually. I'd expect liminal spaces, especially entrances, to get a little more attention to their presentation than other places - everybody knows first impressions are important, right?

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Danatronic 12 points 3 years ago

And even in between counties. I cross the county line between a well-funded suburban county and a dirt-poor rural county occasionally and the road quality is night and day.

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mayonaise_met 3 points 3 years ago

The Netherlands is too small to put effort in one particular area. It's like painting with too big of a brush.

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grue 1 point 3 years ago

If that were true then the street on both sides of the border would be fancy, instead of only the street on one side of it.

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tdawg 6 points 3 years ago

Only if you assume all states are A) doing this and B) doing so with equal effort

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zoe -47 points 3 years ago

same thought. just for show

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jayemar 25 points 3 years ago

Is 57th good or bad? I'm not really sure how to interpret your comment.

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zaph 34 points 3 years ago

I looked it up and think I found what they were talking about. It appears they are 57th out of 127 at just over 70 million barrels annually (if I'm reading this correctly) with the number 1 spot taken by the US at nearly 15 billion. I think I agree with the other response you got, just a bad faith comment trying to shit talk a country they don't like.

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samus12345 8 points 3 years ago

"There are only two things I can't stand in this world: people who are intolerant of other people's cultures, and the Dutch!"

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nodiratime 20 points 3 years ago

I’m not really sure how to interpret your comment.

I am, it's in bad faith.

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helixdaunting 5 points 3 years ago

It's not great, not terrible.

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RAPLOC 18 points 3 years ago

"just for show" WRONG! This shows you are full of shit and have never been here.

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zoe -4 points 3 years ago

hope i am wrong 😭😭

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Diplomjodler 77 points 3 years ago

I was in the Netherlands for the first time in decades recently. The contrast between German and Dutch motorways was amazing. They were all like new whereas the German ones are just fucked up.

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sparky678348 24 points 3 years ago

So wait... Non-American countries exist?

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Diplomjodler 15 points 3 years ago

Nah, that's just a lie the Globalists want you to believe.

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WatchMySixWillYa 12 points 3 years ago

They have always existed.

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samus12345 6 points 3 years ago

Never noticed the weird way he's holding the gun until now.

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PlantbasedChe 4 points 3 years ago

It is like "Free Guy" movie. We discovered we were NPCs and now we want to play too. You were very cruel game masters: aging and deaths by time are not fun

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theKalash 3 points 3 years ago

Haha, that made me think of this intro sequence from LWT.

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Naatan 13 points 3 years ago

In my experience the Belgian roads are much worse, but my experience is hardly definitive..

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fiah 7 points 3 years ago

True, German roads aren't nearly as good as Dutch roads, but regardless you'll always be able to tell immediately when you enter Belgium

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ZC3rr0r 6 points 3 years ago

My experience driving through Europe from Sweden has always been that the closer you get to the Netherlands the better the roads get. Middle Sweden is usually single lane highways with overtaking every xx km, southern Sweden has multi-lane highways, when you hit Denmark you get even wider highways and some truly spectacular bridges, then you hit Germany and your number of lanes increases again as does the speed limit, and then when you get to the Neterlands the roads are just as wide as the German ones but they look like they were built less than a week ago. It would be truly great to drive if the speed limits weren't such a massive step back from just coming out of Germany, or consistent to begin with. I never really knew what speed you were supposed to go because it feels like the Dutch arbitrarily change the speed limit every 10km. But yeah, road quality is absolutely insane.

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Naatan 1 point 3 years ago

I used to live in Belgium while biking to school in the Netherlands. Aside from the road conditions themselves, it was always very noticeable in terms of safety how much better the Dutch roads were. The second I'd cross the border, I'd go from badly maintained pavement with a roughly drawn on bike path to a dedicated biking road that runs alongside the main road with a ditch and trees in between.

I now live in Canada and while the road conditions here are definitely not as good, the thing I miss even more from Dutch roads is the traffic lights; they're all connected! You almost never run into a red light twice on the same road in the Netherlands. In Canada (and probably most other places) it seems almost guaranteed that if you hit one red light you're gonna hit them all..

And don't get me started on pedestrian traffic lights... :p

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quink 50 points 3 years ago

Me playing GeoGuessr I was once placed in Flanders with a sign near me saying "Wegdek in slechte staat". The wegdek was indeed in a slechte staat.

Searching for pictures of these signs on Google, they seem to be accompanied by notes saying "Doe er dan iets aan!".

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ciko22i3 12 points 3 years ago

can you translate?

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sushibowl 45 points 3 years ago

"Wegdek in slechte staat" means "road surface in poor condition."

"Doe er dan wat aan" means "then do something about it."

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Akasazh 5 points 3 years ago

Aside from the translation. It's a bit of a national meme for Belgium that their roads are shit. Driving from the Netherlands into Belgium is noticable even for the blind.

They are trying to fix that, but infrastructure replacement is expensive and labor intensive.

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Weedbro 0 points 3 years ago

Road is malfunctioning.

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samus12345 8 points 3 years ago

Stupid sexy Flanders!

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RaivoKulli 25 points 3 years ago

There are borders in the EU though

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wieson 1 point 3 years ago

And ironically the Netherlands are responsible for there still being borders in the EU.

(The addition of Bulgaria and Romania to Schengen was blocked by Austria and the Netherlands)

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ConfidentLonely 1 point 3 years ago

I am aware of that, but its just a meme. And most European countries have no controls. Even Germany and Switzerland have near to none controls at border crossing

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the_codeboy -3 points 3 years ago

Yeah but there are basically no controls

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RaivoKulli 13 points 3 years ago

Yes there are. EU isn't the same as Schengen.

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Floufym 20 points 3 years ago

Where is this in the Netherlands ?

I already saw a similar meme in the past an the bike road was actually in Belgium.

I don’t want to be fooled once again :)

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Colour_me_triggered 6 points 3 years ago

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raspberriesareyummy 8 points 3 years ago

The Flemish & Wallonians would like to have a word!

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visak 2 points 3 years ago

A word full of strange vowels, sudden glottal stops, and a decent amount of flying spittle.

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Colour_me_triggered 1 point 3 years ago

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cyberpunk007 5 points 3 years ago

Don't get fooled again!

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BilboBargains 2 points 3 years ago

There's an old saying in Texas

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kspatlas 20 points 3 years ago

Also the big EU signs with the full name of the country written?

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kattenluik 2 points 3 years ago

Those aren't everywhere, and the image says always.

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mayonaise_met 18 points 3 years ago

*Schengen

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NekoKamiGuru 13 points 3 years ago

This is because the Dutch local councils actually give a damn about road maintenance.

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lugal 11 points 3 years ago

If you zoom in, there is a car in the bike way. The road is too small for 2 cars. If the bike way is just a line that gets ignored, I don't need it. But maybe I'm over interpreting

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wolfpack86 57 points 3 years ago

I think you are under interpreting. The road is absolutely too small for two cars, and it's showing that bikes have priority on that part of the road. If two cars are in the center car lane, they must wait for the bike lanes to be clear to pass each other, it's not first come, first served as a road with no bike lanes would be.

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adriaan 32 points 3 years ago

100%. If you are a car wanting to pass a bike and there is an oncoming car, you wait behind the bike for the other car to pass before overtaking.

This road is also probably super rural and does not have enough traffic for this to become an issue. Overtaking and oncoming traffic is not a constant given how sparse the traffic is.

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TDCN 3 points 3 years ago

Further more. That's 60 kmh not mph so it's relatively slow moving cars

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lugal 7 points 3 years ago

Ok, that makes sense. Thanks!

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HerbalGamer 7 points 3 years ago

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TvanBuuren 4 points 3 years ago

Actually, because the bike lane has a dotted line as a border AND a bike logo in it (repeated every 250m or something), vehicles MAY cross said line (for passing or overtaking) but a bicycle has right of way in that lane.

This way you can make a 2 lane road a 4 lane road for slow traffic.

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BorgDrone 3 points 3 years ago

As others have already mentioned, bikes have priority here. There is another aspect, however.

This scheme also intentionally makes the road look narrower than it actually is, which naturally makes people drive slower.

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mrfriki 9 points 3 years ago

I wish we had more bike lanes in Madrid, or at least some that would start or end other than in the middle of nowhere.

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