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Offline Clave

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Hitler did the right thing..
...with his road building program anyway - driving in and of London every day sucks. :blah:
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Oh, many of the scientific and tech programs that Hitler initiated were positive.  The Autobahn, for example, is how a highway system should be.  I heard somewhere that the German government spends something like 3/4 of a million dollars per mile for maintenance purposes.  The Interstate system here in the states, by contrast, is a joke and is in poorer condition in many areas than the byways it was supposed to replace.

However, the good things Hitler did cannot be divorced from the fact that he and his pogroms against the Jews, and indeed anyone who opposed him, rank as the single most horrific atrocity of the last several hundred years of human history at least.
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The Volkswagen didn't turn out to be so bad either.
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Hitler did the right thing..
hitler invented the hippie car :D
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Offline mitac

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Hmm. That thread title was a bit startling, considering today's date. :blah:

Concerning the highways - or Autobahnen, if you prefer my native term: the situation in London must be really bad, if you consider or roads a blessing. ;) The regular and everyday traffic jams around Cologne already drive me mad. A lot of money is spent on maintenance, that's true - but the results are construction sites everywhere. :ick: There's a very interesting read on the Autobahn in the Wiki.

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Let me explain in some way.  The motorway round London is a big circle called the M25.  Now somebody failed to do the math when they worked it out - There are 9 x 6 lane motorways, and 13 x 4 lane normal roads connected to it.  That's a total of 106 lanes.  The M25 has 8 lanes, not 20, not 12, friggin 8!  So even if you assume 75% of people don't go round it (which is a big assumption) that still means you should hav 26 lanes to cope with the traffic....

OK, part two: If you want to go East, West, or North out of London, then you have a fair chance of picking up a decent-ish road, but going South - forget it - it's just crap!  Well, done ranting for now, I'm just looking forward to spending another 1 - 1 1/2 hours to travel 18 miles tonight....:hopping:

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So, Hitler had it right, cause you got stuck in traffic....
...you do realize it the anniversary of Aushwitz, right?

 

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Why would I know that?...

want to delete this, fine by me...
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Offline Lynx

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So, Hitler had it right, cause you got stuck in traffic....
...you do realize it the anniversary of Aushwitz, right?


What does that topic about road building program have to do with that?

Going by your logic the Volkswagen is evil because the Nazis invented it.
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Hitler did the right thing..
With a title thread like that, i bet a lot of people start grinding their teeth and sharpenning their claws before entering.
And then they start reading, and they have to vent their anger over the Volkswagen...
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Hitler did the right thing..
Oh, and that reminds me. Hitler was a lot of things, but at least he had a good eye for automobiles. Have you seen Ferdinand Porche´s initial version of the VW? Talk about fugly!

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It was coincidental - I thought of it last night, but posted today, so bad timing huh?

And Porsche didn't really get much right til the 50's imho, then the style started to kick in...

The new style Beetles are pretty nice apart from having no room in the back seats.
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Hitler did the right thing..
Clave, give it a rest on the M25.  I-285 isn't a peach to deal with here in Georgia, either, but this one was a little out of line...
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The Volkswagen didn't turn out to be so bad either.


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why do you all think the german people were so willing to follow him into hell?
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Offline Flipside

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I don't think Clave meant anything by it, Hitler did instigate an massive road-building campaign.

I live about 30metres from the M25, right up near Junction 26, which is being repaired at the moment, and I agree with Clave, it is probably the worst designed road in Europe.

As for the title thing, maybe one of the Admins can change the title to 'M25' or something if people are feeling it's badly worded?

 

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Good find :yes:

And someone needs to get rid of Newt-Boy asap :mad2:
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Offline Nuke

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Hitler did the right thing..
we only have 50 miles of roads in this speck of a town, and it still takes forever to get anywhere on the bus.

as for the bug, i want one :D classic version only.
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Offline Styxx

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Let me explain in some way.  The motorway round London is a big circle called the M25.  Now somebody failed to do the math when they worked it out - There are 9 x 6 lane motorways, and 13 x 4 lane normal roads connected to it.  That's a total of 106 lanes.  The M25 has 8 lanes, not 20, not 12, friggin 8!  So even if you assume 75% of people don't go round it (which is a big assumption) that still means you should hav 26 lanes to cope with the traffic....

OK, part two: If you want to go East, West, or North out of London, then you have a fair chance of picking up a decent-ish road, but going South - forget it - it's just crap!  Well, done ranting for now, I'm just looking forward to spending another 1 - 1 1/2 hours to travel 18 miles tonight....:hopping:


And on top of all that, everyone drives on the wrong side of the road. Nuts, I say, NUTS!

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