I assure you, we also use 3D techniques in Canada.
44With our freeze thaw cycle… I’m sure it’s much, much worse than Great Britain.
16Same down here in New England. We have a bunch of granite boulders waiting to move and drop a big cavity too.
Digging fence post holes here is ridiculous. You get maybe 1 in 20 that doesn’t have a 20-80lb rock partly in the way. It’s why we hav so many miles of rock walls in the woods from 200+ years ago.
6No, because with your freeze-thaw cycles you end up actually having to do road maintenance some time
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I’ve lived in Canada my whole life, and I’ve never seen a road so well kept that it needed pothole stickers.
38Trust me. The potholes in Canada are real too.
31It's like the surface of the fucking moon sometimes
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I visited South Korea and drove while I was there, they had loads of fake speed bumps where they were just painted on but had no actual bump. Definitely made you slow down if you didn't know the area.
They also had lots of poles with flashing blue and red lights, so you thought there were cops ahead until you got close enough to realise it was just a pole.
The place is playing full-on psychic warfare on the roads.
31Speed bump stickers make sense, but fake potholes are a terrible idea as they'll get people to swerve around them to avoid wrecking their car. It sounds stupidly dangerous.
23Imagine you thought that the 3rd one was another fake, but it was real one. Car got almost destroyed.
4Anything to perpetuate our reliance on single occupancy vehicles!
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Try driving in Canada in the winter. They're in 4d at this point
28The roads in Norway are better in winter because the snow plows scrape the snow and ice flat so its actually quite smooth.
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India: You guys are slowing down for potholes?18
17This has me wondering. Every country thinks they have the worst pot holes. Is there anywhere where the people are like "yes our roads are excellent actually"
17Yes, and we like our secrets. Stay away.
11Netherlands.
8Wouldn't say perfect, but compared to what's south of us it defo feels that way
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I spend a couple weeks in Japan. Visited dozens of cities. Didn't see one pothole. Granted I'm sure they have em out in the countryside but didn't see one in the tonkyo greater Metropolitan area.
1Don't think i've seen a pothole here in my life.
1any country has bad potholes on road few people use.
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I can't tell you how many times I've seen this same meme but with the countries changed.
Same images and everything.
14It's a bandwidth and resource waste: electronic, mental, temporal.
Block user, move on.
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This is dumb as shit because canadian winters are much more harsh than UK. Asphalt degrades faster in harsher winters. Doubt they're hitting -50C in the middle of January
12Don't underestimate just how badly we Brits maintain the roads.
The whole country is a patchwork mess.
4My local MP came around yesterday to brag that he and the local Tory councillor have made plans to fix a pothole nearby.
The bar is so low it’s below the floor.
3The entire providence of Saskatchewan would like to have a word with you
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In a lot of places we don't even use real asphalt, don't need to wait til winter because the damn rain washes out all the patches and then goes back to making things worse.
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🤣 Bullshit, drive through Quebec and you'll see potholes the size of the grand canyon.
8I certainly hope that's a slight exaggeration.
2Can confirm, the yearly deep freeze and thawing really does a number on the roads there.
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Look at Britain plagiarizing by stealing pictures taken in Lansing, MI.
7I've literally never seen these stickers anywhere up here. We have organic potholes aplenty.
These would be such a nightmare for civil engineers. You're just throwing down a random shape on the street, without any consideration for traffic accumulation.
7Wonder how many idiots that weren't paying attention have swerved to avoid them...
6This was my first thought. Hey! Let's freak out the people who are already driving recklessly. Nothing bad could possibly happen if we do that.
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In Florida, we use Canadian drivers to slow traffic.
6And those 3D versions work, that I can confirm. Lost a tire to one a few years ago.
6Where? I don't leave my home province much but I've never seen this.
5It’s fake.
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I feel like this is more likely to cause damage to cars, because now people will think real potholes are just stickers
3Or people get into accidents trying to avoid potholes.
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The roads in Canada are literal trash compared to UK wtf
3Jesus I'll just drive on the grass
3The South African pothole
3Here's a revolutionary idea: speed bumps.
2Or design roads that feel like you should be going slower. Trees, narrower lanes, more walking/biking infrastructure all help people naturally slow down. Big open stretches like pictured with the stickers don't feel like there is a reason to be going slow so people don't
4In my area I have speed bumps with potholes
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and we here we have:
roads: optional2Baltimore, MD: "Am I a joke to you?"
2Man that made me think if a city just covered a pothole with a street sticker. Somebody just cruising along and then cathunk
1In a heartwarming display, Indian couples volunteer to apply the British technique:
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