Quality of roads

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Quality of roads

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I've noticed that roads in Brisbane seem to be far inferior to those in Canberra and Melbourne.

Anybody else like to comment?
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you might get a response or two if you're lucky, as most of us are not from down under.
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There's a couple that I saw from another thread.

Thanks for the heads-up, I did realise that this site's demographic is primarily American/European.
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primarily North American actually, probably b/c everywhere in else in the world manual transmissions aren't such an inconvenient mystery. :lol:
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jomotopia wrote:primarily North American actually, probably b/c everywhere in else in the world manual transmissions aren't such an inconvenient mystery. :lol:
Read an article in the news down here recently where some wannabe American car thieves were thwarted by a cars manual transmission when they tried to drive off - they couldn't start it!
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Tropical heat and rain take their toll on asphalt. We have the same bad road problem in Puerto Rico which is at a latitude - though in the northern hemisphere - comparable to the Townsville-Cairns area of North-Central Queensland.
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France has some of the best roads I've ever seen. Far superior to those I saw in the UK. The autoroutes are like glass. THere's not a single pothole or groove or anything.
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eaglecatcher wrote:THere's not a single pothole or groove or anything.
what i wanna know then, is how do they keep them that way?

it DOES snow in france, right?
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The autoroutes are just amazing (did 150km/h, no bumps), the city streets are OK and the back streets/cobblestones are just shocking.
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Hi PhantomD,
I am Lara and I am with you.
Roads in Brisbane is inferior to those in Canberra and Melbourne.
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if we start talkin about not so good raods, I suggest U take a look at here :)
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Well, at least I can comfort myself knowing that somewhere it's worse than here. The roads in Rhode Island, USA look positively civilized by comparison.
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Some Finnish roads are also in pretty bad shape because we use studded winter tires.
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Tups wrote:Some Finnish roads are also in pretty bad shape because we use studded winter tires.
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There comes some grooves on the road, and when tarmac gets this it sometimes brakes, but usually when they get in too bad shape the roat is coated with new layer of tarmac
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mad_finn wrote:There comes some grooves on the road, and when tarmac gets this it sometimes brakes, but usually when they get in too bad shape the roat is coated with new layer of tarmac
But then again if they're short on money and the road is not a major highway, they'll usually send one guy to shovel some tarmac to the worst holes instead of re-surfacing the whole road. My friend did that when he was working on Destia. Those emergency repairs won't last long and afterwards the road is in even worse shape than before.

Have you tried the second-newest stretch of freeway between Paimio and Muurla? Kinda bumpy, isn't it. On the other hand the old freeway near Helsinki has always been smooth. I guess there has been some negative developement in the building quality...

Of course in general roads in Finland are in pretty good shape. Cambodia was rather interesting couple of years ago. A 100 km trip took nearly six hours.
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