The state of the roads in Poland has improved slightly? Well, wait...
The UK's common road plague is ubiquitous closures, narrowing and, above all, velocity limitations. In the country with the lowest velocity in Europe of fast (?) traffic (70 mph), among others on M6, M1, M5 and almost all road categories And for months there are limits to 50 mph, guarded by sectional velocity measurements and communication boards “You can’t see us due to the fact that we work at night / off the grid”which is not about renovations, but mostly about ‘exchange of barriers between roads’, cutting green, cleaning dehydration, and at best creating emergency bays on the side.
Polish illness or Western trend?
Everything is expected to be necessary, but not on all roads from London to Scotland and not for long months! Besides, if there is no road work at the moment, then their tasks are taken over by alleged intelligent traffic management systems, utilized to introduce long-term velocity limits just like that, for fighting traffic jams, and if there were no traffic jams, it was for calling them. Similarly, it takes place on cruise routes through cities that in England (as in the United States) usually run estakads. At 1 point across the country, on 6-lane roads, as a regulation not very conflicting, there were limitations to 30 mph, and at the same time, many months of renovations began, not, of course not the pavement, but these are water supply networks, and these are drains, etc.
What, that it's like in Poland, where in 1 week a fresh surface is poured out, and in another week a fresh surface is poured, due to the fact that another company only then feels like exchanging pipes or cables? Yes, like in Poland, but not until a fewer years ago in the UK it was not. Worked fast, overwhelmingly at night, closing up 1 lane at a time, providing mobile detours and always informing in advance of the obstacles and strictly adherence to the time frame of scheduled works. So, is it the Polish roading method, the illness of the country of the regulation of the stupid, the vile roads and the mediocre bridges that reached the Isles? Not necessarily, it is alternatively the already known western trend of policy not only infrastructure has gained the position of another permanent emergency.
Scientific deautomobilisation
This action began shortly after COVID and was translated “the request to make up for investment delays from the pandemic period”, which did not give emergence to suspicion, especially since (as I mentioned) before 2020 the UK was celebrated for its low nuisance of road works and good planning. And abruptly everything changed, and there is no way to protest, due to the fact that decisions are being made by more anonymous committees, supported, of course, by expert opinions.
Without getting active in any peculiar conspiracy theories, it is worth noting that the tendency to deautomobilize cities, which (outside of the 3rd Polish Republic) appeared to be extinguished in the second decade of the present century – has now returned with increased force. The voice and, worse still, the power came to the end of a generation of alumni from the engineering departments of the movement raised by doctrineists who considered the car to be the eventual evil. In the realities of the end of liberal democracy, in which real leadership belongs to all kinds of bureaucracy, civilian services and lobbying groups, these tendencies seem hard to reverse by democratic methods. Officials will simply not perceive to anyone by choice, with a social mandate, and even if specified a individual is found and stubbornly – he will be thrown down with mass of papers, speeches by NGOs, consultations with representatives of the same organisations, and yet the top holiness: opinion Science.
Domestic accumulation
Again, as in the case of COVID, it doesn't substance much if individual came up with it from the beginning, or now only everyone curious in it is taking advantage of the opportunity, since it appeared. It is only worth paying attention to the fact that we live in the essence of capitalism. It remains based on production and, in particular, increasingly on the exchange of goods and services. Not long ago, in order to make it happen, we had to... go out of our homes: go shopping, go to restaurants, go on vacations, etc. Today, trade, as well as a large proportion of the consumption of services, is taking place at home. So we should stay in them, sit as long as possible to buy, buy, buy. Then why go somewhere and halt buying for a while?
So, dear drivers, you can be certain that this trend lockdown The road will most likely scope the smiling 3rd Poland, and the anti-road experiments of the Warsaw squad Rafał Trzaskowski It's just a warm-up. Finally, road exploration and pointless restrictions are the specialty of local road and infrastructure managers.
Konrad Hand
