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Re:Why American cities can’t keep up with infrastructure mai... by Mediterraneo10 on Monday October 05, 2020 @08:44AM (#24687212)
Where are you living in Romania that minor village roads get paved? I have a lot of cycling around Transylvania adding road-surface data for OpenStreetMap, and I have found that usually only the village’s main thoroughfare gets paved while the side streets remain unpaved.

Still, even the paving of village ways may have positive economic value. Throughout Cluj county one finds that once asphalt is laid in a village, that village becomes an attractive place to buy a home for commuters who are now priced out of Cluj itself.

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Re:Why American cities can’t keep up with infrastructure mai... by paganel on Monday October 05, 2020 @04:52PM (#24691906)
Lots of villages in Teleorman, this part of Constanta county [1] (an area which is really, really beautiful), or, across the Danube, in villages like this one [2], just as the Baragan plain ends. I have a personal side-project where I'm photographing old village mills and posting those photos online [3], and as such I've visited lots of villages in Southern and Southern-Eastern Romania (plus a few in Southern Transylvania).

[1] https://www.google.com/maps/@44.0999208,27.6257843,15378m/da...

[2] https://www.google.com/maps/@44.2123091,27.4520726,3a,75y,35...

[3] https://mori-din-romania.blogspot.com/

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