Where are Moscow’s potholes?

[Serb]

There is a party in my place. I'm back from karaoke. gtg

[onodera]

I have to admit that the question about dafety for drivers seems to be justified.
I have to been to Ukraine (more exactly L'viv) in 1992, so, short after the iron curtain fell, as part of an archers delegation ...
and I have to admit that the traffic conditions were horrific.

It is not that the city lacked traffic lights, rather that the drivers interpreted the traffic regulations in very "creative" ways ...
wich usually involved the assumption that traffic lights are optional ... and that it is the pedestrians fault if they don't get over the street soon enough.

I was very glad that during our stay there our own cars were safely locked away in the archer clubs premises and our hosts did all the driving for us


But of course, I don't know if the ukrainian traffic conditions were the same (almost 1/4 century ago) for moscow/russia or (even if they were) if they still are similar

The drivers have become much more polite and rule-abiding, at least in Moscow.

[pchang]

Potholes are filled almost immediately with the bones of dissidents.

[N35t0r]

I have to admit that the question about dafety for drivers seems to be justified.
I have to been to Ukraine (more exactly L'viv) in 1992, so, short after the iron curtain fell, as part of an archers delegation ...
and I have to admit that the traffic conditions were horrific.

It is not that the city lacked traffic lights, rather that the drivers interpreted the traffic regulations in very "creative" ways ...
wich usually involved the assumption that traffic lights are optional ... and that it is the pedestrians fault if they don't get over the street soon enough.

I was very glad that during our stay there our own cars were safely locked away in the archer clubs premises and our hosts did all the driving for us


But of course, I don't know if the ukrainian traffic conditions were the same (almost 1/4 century ago) for moscow/russia or (even if they were) if they still are similar

So like in Italy?

[Serb]

Спасибо большое за то что не будете "спасать" нас в будущем.
Подумай об своего спасения, можеть быт еще не поздно. Ищи помочь!

да на здоровье/you are welcome.
Нам помогать не надо, но вас уже больше спасать не будем, в следующий раз когда вас в очередной раз начнуть резать очередные турки.
Предательства и неблагодарность не забываются.
Никто не любит предателей.

[Serb]

Yeah, when I was in Egypt the cab drivers stated that traffic signals were just suggestions. (yes, his English wasn't very good but his driving seemed to support his statement) He also said that he had to be somewhat careful so not to hit more pedestrians because he was already at the limit and would lose his license if he hit any more. I didn't ask just what the limit was.

Egyptians are crazy, indeed!

[Ben Kenobi]

America:

6,586,610 kms

Russia:

1,396,000

Canada has almost as many roads as Russia, and Canada's roads are better.

[Serb]

It's not about roads, dummy. It's about your western propaganda.

[onodera]

I drove on a road that literally had more potholes than even surface this summer. We must've deported them there.

[Ben Kenobi]

It's not about roads, dummy. It's about your western propaganda.

Even China and India and Brazil do the whole 'roads' thing better than Russia. Your infrastructure is seriously puny.

[giblets]

China and India each have over a billion people

[Bereta_Eder]

They are highly sexual

[giblets]

Greeks invented homosexuality, hence Greece's population is small

[Bereta_Eder]

Thankfully with the advance of science, this can change

[Dinner]

Ok! It ook some time to find all that videos on youtube, but, since all of you guys really need some anti-propaganda pill, here is a very short tour to Russia from Serb for you:

Moscow:


St. Petersburg:


Grozny (the capital of Chechnya):



Sochi:



Ekaterinburg:



Kazan (the capital of Tatarstan):


Ufa (the capital of Bashkortostan):



Novosibirsk:


Be my guest, my city of Omsk:



Well, if New-Yorkers consider their winters harsh and Moscow winters brutal - they are both pussies, as for me. The Moscow winters are just a plain resort for my Siberian skin. I wonder what would you say, if you had +40C at summer and -40C at winter, as we have here:

Something that doesn't kill us make us stronger. Period.

Krasnoyarsk:


Vladivostok:


Khabarovsk:


And as a postscript:

Sevastopol, Crimea, Russia:

Though, this place still needs a lot of recovery after 23 years of Ukrainian occupation. But, we will re-build it, as we did after the WW2, when there were only dozens of undamaged buildings left.

It's the famous Soviet boy scout camp Artek before and after:


And that's how we are re-building the whole Crimea, which is a sacred place for us. Because this is the place we, the Russians have made habitable working hard during the last three centuries, the place where our first Christian prince have been baptized, who later baptized the whole Russia, the place where millions of Russians have lost their lives and spoiled their blood during centuries (including my grandfather), while defending the place.
Crimea was a part of Russia for centuries and now it's just back home. And nothing and nobody will ever change that fact.

Think of how much better it could ve if you didn't have a dictator and his cro ies stealing a huge portion of everything.

As it is, most underdeveloped, or in Russia's case misdeveloped, countries focus funds on one or two cities (like the capital) so they look nice. It is the rest of the country that gets left to rot.