englishrussia.com — This is Russian Federal highway Moscow city. The road doesn?t have asfalt surface, though it is a Federal, vital highway. Everytime it rains the road gets paralized, these shots are made a few days before the traffic jam for 600 cars got stuck there. Hunger and lack of the fuel followed, according to the witnesses.
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clearzSep 22, 2006
Also check out this for a russian pothole.<a class="user" href="http://englishrussia.com/?p=258">http://englishrussia.com/?p=258</a>Son: Watch out daddy for that pothole. Daddy: I'ts alright son its only a. aaaaaa wtf.
oropherSep 22, 2006
Normal things for russians are crazy for us, and the countrary.
nielsbjergSep 22, 2006
I love picture number 9 from the top, the signs saying that there is road construction and that the speed limit is 70 km/h ~ 45 mph! I would NOT be going as fast as that!!
mianosSep 22, 2006
Actually it looks like that mud, then it rains for a few weeks (non stop of course), then you get a short break and then the temperature drops like a stone. It was the temperature dropping like a stone that got most.
m1tk4Sep 22, 2006
To clarify some things:1. Yes, it is a federal highway. By the looks of it it is closer to Yakutsk, than to Moscow. There are 2 unpaved strips of federal highways that I know of - this one and another one around Chita (near the Chinese border). In both cases they see very little traffic, and most of the time these roads are just frozen. It is very expensive and just not economical to pave these roads since they see very little traffic and what you see may happen once a year *maybe*. There are lots of places in Siberia like this where you can only drive to them in winter, and you have to fly there in summers.So, in a way, this is like finding some f'd up place on I-80 somewhere in Nevada or Nebraska, and posting it as "Look what happens on the I-80 interstate connecting New York and SF". True, but somewhat out of context.2. The roads under communists have been worse.3. You can easily go 70km/h on this road in January. (scratch that. *I* can easily go 70km/h, but even I wouldn't want to.:))
cakestickSep 22, 2006
<a class="user" href="http://englishrussia.com/?p=319">http://englishrussia.com/?p=319</a>"Stop drinking vodka, get some shrooms!"Oh man, I can only imagine what that poster would look like in modern times, with a modern propagandistic flair!
kozieSep 22, 2006
Nice, but that's not a v-dub
Closed AccountSep 23, 2006
The description includes only Moscow City while the article actually reads "Moscow City ? Yakutsk City". It's 6 time zones away from Moscow. It's closer to Japan than to Moscow.
obkenobiSep 23, 2006
Those roads have been left unpaved to keep the Germans out. This is what Russians have told me when I have previously discussed this subject of their undeveloped infrastructure.Maybe this is some kind of joke, or outdated WW2-era thinking, I don't know, but you try driving a Leopard 2 or any heavy tank through that.<a class="user" href="http://www.paulscarfe.com/images/mudbeatstank.jpg">http://www.paulscarfe.com/images/mudbeatstank.jpg</a>
trovoltexOct 7, 2006
It was directly after heavy shower. In general up to 100 km/h is ok there.