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.
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?
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.
The Netherlands is too small to put effort in one particular area. It's like painting with too big of a brush.
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.
Only if you assume all states are A) doing this and B) doing so with equal effort
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.
So wait... Non-American countries exist?
Nah, that's just a lie the Globalists want you to believe.
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
Haha, that made me think of this intro sequence from LWT.
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!".
can you translate?
"Wegdek in slechte staat" means "road surface in poor condition."
"Doe er dan wat aan" means "then do something about it."
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.
Road is malfunctioning.
Stupid sexy Flanders!
There are borders in the EU though
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
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)
Yeah but there are basically no controls
Yes there are. EU isn't the same as Schengen.
Also the big EU signs with the full name of the country written?
Those aren't everywhere, and the image says always.
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 :)
*Schengen
This is because the Dutch local councils actually give a damn about road maintenance.
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
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.
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.
Ok, that makes sense. Thanks!
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.
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.
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.
Beautiful
Can you translate please?
Fuckin tryhard dutchies.
Is that 🇩🇪-🇳🇱-border?
