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?
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.
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.
It must be quite common where there’s not much love is lost between neighbours.
this is brilliant, as a londoner, im saving this
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?
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
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 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.
Ok, that makes sense. Thanks!
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.
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 :)
Pfft Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg are basically just one country.
The Flemish & Wallonians would like to have a word!
This is because the Dutch local councils actually give a damn about road maintenance.
Is that 🇩🇪-🇳🇱-border?
![[meme] You'll know when you reach the Netherlands](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/78d11f8d-f2d0-4856-ba03-0b0e933aaeb0.jpeg){kind=link}