Re:Porsche shatters the Nürburgring record we thought was un...
by KozmoNau7 on Sunday July 01, 2018 @11:51AM
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Not a lot of that is very densely populated though, and doesn't need very many roads. You need to compare areas with roughly the same population density, and when I do that, Danmark and the UK and the US completely fail to measure up to Germany.
The average population density of Germany is ~46 times greater than British Columbia. So yeah, obviously you get some long stretches of badly-maintained roads in BC. That wasn't my point, though.
The roads in comparable situations between Denmark and Germany lean very heavily towards Germany having much higher quality. For goodness' sake, they'll put up "Straßenschäden" signs for even tiny little holes in the asphalt. In Denmark, they won't put up a warning sign until someone falls in, and sometimes not even then.
Re:Porsche shatters the Nürburgring record we thought was un...
by blattimwind on Sunday July 01, 2018 @12:00PM
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> The average population density of Germany is ~46 times greater than British Columbia.
... and accordingly traffic is much denser, and roads will see a lot more wear.
But roads are easy when in a small country with a dense population like Germany. Heck, you can drive from one side of Germany to the other in a single tank of gas. Compare that to properly large roads like those in Canada, or Russia. (I'd add Australia but the weather is so good there that they have no word for pothole.)
How small Germany is compared to one of Canada's medium-sized provinces.
https://mapfight.appspot.com/de-vs-british.columbia/germany-...