People Share The Worst Roads In Their Countries After Brit ‘Complains’ About A Potholed Street And Here Are 43 Of The Scariest Ones
You don’t really care about how bad a road is until you are the one using said bad road. The same applies to snow in winter—you don’t really care about it until all of your regular parking spots become piles of snow and you can’t but try and improvise your parking until the snow melts.
Anyway, this British humor without context page on Twitter, very appropriately called No Context Brits, has recently shared a picture of a pretty rough road—one that has been patched up so much, it’s just ridiculous at this point.
Image credits: NoContextBrits
And while the post got almost 95,000 likes with over 10,300 retweets and 21,100 quote tweets, turns out this bit of road wasn’t all that bad, as it spawned a slew of responses showing off all of the more horrible roads around the world.
Bored Panda has created a curated list of some of the best bad road flexes people shared in response to this now-viral tweet, which you can find below. So, go vote and comment on the ones you liked the most and why not let us know of the road situation where you live in the comment section!
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This made me laugh way too hard!!! I am South African, I need say no more......
In Portland, Oregon they don't drink and drive, they smoke weed and fly
funny enough this is what most main roads in Las Vegas look like too
Could it be possible that someone ran over it with an armored vehicle? Who knows ...
The asphalt melts. It's not an appropriate road material for the climate.
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During the Bush era of the war, there was an attempt to connect all of the rural villages to Kabul by new roads. The theory was a big reason the Taliban was in power was many villages were in mountain valleys that were nearly impossible to leave. Make it easier to get out, you can escape a warlord, send your daughter somewhere she won't be stabbed for reading, etc. They built the first 25 miles. It melted and was driven on by the US Army, making it look like above. The plan was abandoned and the funding earmarked for it went to drone development - that way we could see what was going on better. The Hague would like to talk to the US about how that turned out.
There's a road in far northern Minnesota that has had so many heavy trucks driving on it for so many years that you just drop your car into the slots down the lanes where the truck tires have forced the road to sink, and you can almost take your hands off the wheel and just ride down the road without any danger of leaving your lane unless you *really* try!
Is the new road empty because everyone is still trying to get off the old road?
If you want to find a bad road, check out General de Gaulle Drive on the New Orleans city limit on the Westbank. There are blocks there than you can't drive over faster than about 2 mph unless you want to lose the bottom of your car. I moved away from that area right before Katrina, but I'll bet that road still looks *exactly* the same.
Here in the U.S. Republican senators just refused to even consider voting on an infrastructure bill. I suppose because good roads would make it to easy for people to get vaccinated and vote.
The US has so many bridges on the verge of falling down. I hope the GOP is on one when it falls into a river.
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For context with UK potholes, they used to be very rare. We don't have much ice, our rainfall is spread evenly through the year, 95% of the country has solid geology and roads underwent regular maintenance. Then the government cut the maintenance budget to save money. They didn't save a penny as more money was spent fixing undrivable roads and damaged vehicles. So they decided to pass a bill making potholes not the government's responsibility.
This man drew attention to the potholes in his town by spray painting uh,,,well...the URL says it all. Brilliant! https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/07/new-zealand-man-threatened-with-prosecution-over-penis-pothole-drawings
I'm in Trinidad & Tobago, we have the largest deposit of asphalt, the Pitch Lake. Ironically, we also have horrible roads even though we're only 5131km-squared.
the roads in Tobago (i have been there 5 times and spend most of my time up in the northern part around Roxborough) aren't super bad, because there's only the one road that loops round that part of the island. but drive off that main road and you see some crazy roads for sure. how's the lockdown going in trinidad?
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The state mineral is asphalt, and the state motto is "Road Work Ahead".
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The pyramids are still around, both in Egypt and Mexico, ya got yer Stonehenge and yer Easter Islsnd heads, yer Great Wall, yer Roman aqueducts and colliseum ... but constructing a flat length of road stymies us!
Speaking as a Brit who works in the road repair industry - I've had some interesting phone calls with members of public who call in to complain about the state of our roads saying "it's worse than that of some third world countries" and yes I do get into a bit with them and tell them it's really really not and that he should be thankful he has roads to drive on at all where he can drive 5 minutes round the corner to his local shop and buy expensive mineral water and to remind himself that some countries don't have those luxuries!
Strange how the local governments don't fix the roads and yet expect people to cycle to work or use greener forms of transport.The reason I hear time and time again as to why people don't buy a smaller city car is because the state of the roads are so bad and have damaged their vehicles they switched to a SUV in order to deal with the situation
There was a mayor of a suburb of Montreal who would pay residents for reporting potholes after a certain point (ie, the city had a short period of time to fix them, after which the first person to catch them out got a finder's fee). I always respected him. Montreal's roads are atrocious. But everyone thinks theirs are the worst, so I won't compare.
After seeing these, I'd say our roads in Finland are in excellent condition.
here in germany the flooding is almost higher than cars 2021-07-17...c1d6f3.jpg 
Our roads have improved immensely since turfing our old mayor five years ago and getting a new one. Now we just have a weird heat related buckling on one of the bike paths. P1020655-6...8cdf96.jpg 
#40 is a photo I can hear. We enjoy our steel plates in St Louis as well.
I am sad I did not see any Western European posts, we have waaay too many potholes too!
In the United States, we prefer that a handful of rich people get insanely rich over the public good.
Something crazy happened a couple of weeks ago in Georgia (State.) One of the main roads was completely repaved from county line to county line. They did not repave even 3 inches on the neighboring county's road. They also did it without closing all lanes of traffic for months. It was nuts. So it CAN be done. They just don't.
Here in the U.S. Republican senators just refused to even consider voting on an infrastructure bill. I suppose because good roads would make it to easy for people to get vaccinated and vote.
The US has so many bridges on the verge of falling down. I hope the GOP is on one when it falls into a river.
Load More Replies... For context with UK potholes, they used to be very rare. We don't have much ice, our rainfall is spread evenly through the year, 95% of the country has solid geology and roads underwent regular maintenance. Then the government cut the maintenance budget to save money. They didn't save a penny as more money was spent fixing undrivable roads and damaged vehicles. So they decided to pass a bill making potholes not the government's responsibility.
This man drew attention to the potholes in his town by spray painting uh,,,well...the URL says it all. Brilliant! https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/07/new-zealand-man-threatened-with-prosecution-over-penis-pothole-drawings
I'm in Trinidad & Tobago, we have the largest deposit of asphalt, the Pitch Lake. Ironically, we also have horrible roads even though we're only 5131km-squared.
the roads in Tobago (i have been there 5 times and spend most of my time up in the northern part around Roxborough) aren't super bad, because there's only the one road that loops round that part of the island. but drive off that main road and you see some crazy roads for sure. how's the lockdown going in trinidad?
Load More Replies... The state mineral is asphalt, and the state motto is "Road Work Ahead".
Load More Replies... The pyramids are still around, both in Egypt and Mexico, ya got yer Stonehenge and yer Easter Islsnd heads, yer Great Wall, yer Roman aqueducts and colliseum ... but constructing a flat length of road stymies us!
Speaking as a Brit who works in the road repair industry - I've had some interesting phone calls with members of public who call in to complain about the state of our roads saying "it's worse than that of some third world countries" and yes I do get into a bit with them and tell them it's really really not and that he should be thankful he has roads to drive on at all where he can drive 5 minutes round the corner to his local shop and buy expensive mineral water and to remind himself that some countries don't have those luxuries!
Strange how the local governments don't fix the roads and yet expect people to cycle to work or use greener forms of transport.The reason I hear time and time again as to why people don't buy a smaller city car is because the state of the roads are so bad and have damaged their vehicles they switched to a SUV in order to deal with the situation
There was a mayor of a suburb of Montreal who would pay residents for reporting potholes after a certain point (ie, the city had a short period of time to fix them, after which the first person to catch them out got a finder's fee). I always respected him. Montreal's roads are atrocious. But everyone thinks theirs are the worst, so I won't compare.
After seeing these, I'd say our roads in Finland are in excellent condition.
here in germany the flooding is almost higher than cars 2021-07-17...c1d6f3.jpg
Our roads have improved immensely since turfing our old mayor five years ago and getting a new one. Now we just have a weird heat related buckling on one of the bike paths. P1020655-6...8cdf96.jpg
#40 is a photo I can hear. We enjoy our steel plates in St Louis as well.
I am sad I did not see any Western European posts, we have waaay too many potholes too!
In the United States, we prefer that a handful of rich people get insanely rich over the public good.
Something crazy happened a couple of weeks ago in Georgia (State.) One of the main roads was completely repaved from county line to county line. They did not repave even 3 inches on the neighboring county's road. They also did it without closing all lanes of traffic for months. It was nuts. So it CAN be done. They just don't.
