• x4740N@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

    The downside of those stickers is that they stop working once people learn they are stickers and increases the chance of people driving full speed into an actual pothole

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    5 months ago

    As a Canadian, I can’t imagine our governments spending money on fake potholes when we’re rich in the real thing.

    I mean, after poutine and sex clubs it’s what everyone remembers about Montreal.

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    Completely ridiculous as far as solutions go - the only reason the cars are going too fast in the first place is because the very same government overbuilt the road.

    So the alternative to not overbuild the road, saving plenty of money in the process, was always there. This just wastes money then wastes a little bit more to add insult to injury.

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      Completely agree. They could also build traffic-calming infrastructure on this stretch of road that doesn’t necessitate tricking people into a false reality like ridiculous pothole decals do (which I hope are not even real and are made up for this meme, but probably are real).

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      5 months ago

      If you look close enough you can see the water mark. Pretty sure it’s shopped.

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    5 months ago

    Bold of them to assume everyone who sees this will slam on their brakes instead of swerving and potentially into traffic causing accidents.

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    Those roads at the top aren’t even Canadian. We have more than enough potholes.

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    The roads around here don’t need stickers. They’re bumpy enough to make my scooter’s bell ding on its own riding over them.

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    5 months ago

    The UK thinking they have even close to the amount of potholes as a country that has -50° to +40° temps…

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      Our councils have been defunded so much that they basically don’t maintain the roads. Our potholes now have “bounce” damage, where trucks have driven into the hole and bounced, further causing rebound holes. Those are now widening.

      I’ve driven in Poland in rural areas. There are places in the UK now where Poland had better road surface.

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    5 months ago

    I’m not good at photos, but why does the dude in the Canada picture look so badly photoshopped?

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        5 months ago

        What I meant was: why do I instinctively know that it’s shopped? As in what is technically wrong, not why is the photo manipulation crap. I wasn’t trying to offer critique, ffs I couldn’t make something even this convincing.

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          Probably the lighting on the person laying the stickers down, it looks out of place