Do Europeans understand freeways?

What is this infinite grey abomination?! NIGGERMAN HELP AGGHHHHH

Living the dream.

that looks needlessly complex

They almost ruined the Netherlands in a similar way. City centers were demolished to make room for roads. Then the oil crisis happened, the Dutch switched to bikes and more public transport and most city centers are now closed for cars due to pollution. Next step: closing those roads to make room for houses and shops like we had.

Not as good as Ontario 401 in Canada.

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This confuses and enrages me

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toronto can be nuked soon

No

based
Opas Fiets, bestes Fiets

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Not abolished, per se, but in Los Angeles, the city's extensive tram system that existed from 1901 to 1963 was deliberately phased out of existence by General Motors, Firestone, and Chevron through them dumping huge sums of money into bus systems. This is just one of the most egregious examples, but they did this in cities all across the country for decades.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_conspiracy

>I read that car companies literally abolished trams and trains in US to achieve this clusterfuck.
Trams and trains in the US share a different stories.

City tram companies were bought up by General Motors, Fyrestone Tyre and Standard Oil, they were scrapped and replaced by road-going buses which were slowly phased out forcing passangers to purchase automobiles.

Trains on the other hand were killed directly by the Federal Government, which granted subsidies to airline operators, automobile manufacturers and road construction but not railway companies. Railway companies could not compete cosnsidering the fact that taxes paid by railway companies directly funded their own competition.
To this day not a single in-land airline in the united states is profitable. They're all operating at a loss compensated by federal subsidies.

huh, why tho? Also lobbies? Planes can't really be used for everything and US has dense enough areas to warrant railways even if not a complete integrated grid.

Freeway? Looks more like a spontaneous parking lot.

GEEF TERUG

>huh, why tho?
In America socialism is only bad when poor people benefit from it. As long as it's reserved for corporations and their shareholders it's a-okay.

lobbies, there are hundreds of stories like that. We should make a thread about them

carse carry people

Sounds like you hate freedom, commie

san francisco toll station

yes americans pay tolls in cash when theyre driving

and yes this is only 1 direction

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>yes americans pay tolls in cash when theyre driving
norgay also does this fucking everywhere

damn look at all that freedom

most country in europe do it like that i think. In half the lines are for electronic badges and others by cash

in my area this is fully electronic now
when I drive through a state where I still have to stop to pay cash it feels like they're stuck in the 80s

>freeway
>have to pay a toll to get through
Yup, that's McBased™

We totally agree, hence why we have the most robust freight system in the world

it's never done in Sweden though so I was really suprised when I saw it in USA, even worse at places like the picture I posted where there's heavy traffic and you can get stuck for a really long time¨

Some tolls are really cheap, like $1, but some tolls (like a bridge in Pennsylvania) was $15 just to drive over (one-way)

Free as in freedom
Freedom ain't free

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löl

There are toll roads in some cities nowadays. They photograph your license plate and you get the bill in the mail.

it costs a buck-o-five

that's ironic because highways in europe have tolls of like 30 or 40 EUROS, a fucking travesty

Var fan då? Bor i Malmö och finns ingan tullvägar i Skåne (förutom öresundsbron såklart)

De är väldigt få, men fick betala när jag körde genom Motala.

Is that Britain?

No, what is htat?

We understand it way better than Americans, at least we can use them properly

Why does this photoshopped image get reposted every day

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no, just some other random European country who drives on the wrong side of the street

Yes. Swindon more specifically.

lmao you pay tolls for breathing oxygen in this fucking pansy ass country. 3 dollars for a litre of gas and tolls snapping your picture every 300m hahahahah

No. This is the largest road where I live. The E4.

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god I hate that road

Same. But it's kinda comfy on summer nights. Did 287km/h on the stretch near my home, felt good. Not a single car on the road besides me.

Looks unnecessarily big considering the traffic shown on the pic. And where are the bridges for animals?

>Two lanes each direction
I'm from LA. I once drove out of the city and found a freeway with two lanes in each direction. I told my friends online about how small it was and they were like 'you're a fucking idiot.'

we do!

youtube.com/watch?v=HoS-pMWCnvk

To be fair, i like roundabouts like any other civilized person but that's just too much.

Traffic is pretty light like 95% of the time. And there is no animal bridges. This road was built before people gave a fuck about that, so they put up wildlife fences in "high risk" areas but they don't work. So everyday pretty much someone hits a deer, moose or boar.

Sweden is disturbingly flat

>huh, why tho?
$$$

it's not like those bridges can be built afterwards, but ok

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I found out a few days ago there is a highway in Dallas (I think) which at its widest is 29 lanes wide. Like what the fuck here the widest highway in my region is 9 lanes and that's just a small stretch.

Just the south. Once you get above Stockholm it gets a bit more bumpy.
Nothing compared to Norway though. I live in the High Coast (Höga Kusten, pic related) and it's pretty hilly here.

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Nope. I'll never understand what's so good to get frustrated for hours in the traffic before and after work.

t. a yuropoor who never had a car, didn't have a driving licence and just walks everywhere

The problem is that most of the land near the E4 is privately owned. So if the government wants to build wildlife bridges they have to make deals with the landowners. And that costs money.

Fun fact. Spain has the 3rd longest freeway network in the world, only after the US and China. Now, you might be wondering why, and that's because

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