Turns out the Netherlands neighbour didn’t want to be embarrassed so it extended the same good quality road 100km into its own border. Then OP took a picture of where it ended for this meme
Lol that sounds like a coping mechanism. This picture is at the border, you can check for yourself: 51.245554,4.036692
Link to Google Maps for the lazy: https://maps.app.goo.gl/i8Q1XLg3bjmn3P3KA
Why would you lie about something like this?
They’re Belgian.
source: trust me bro
Seems surprising to lie about this on a small community like Lemmy. Maybe it’s an urban myth that keep being spread.
I made it up because I thought it would be funny
Because it’s funny. The thought of going to all that trouble to not be one upped by your richer neighbour and then for someone to undo it all by taking a picture where they stopped is amusing. No matter how far they built the road someone could take the picture where it stopped and call them shit
Interesting, thanks for sharing!
Edit: seems like OP wasn’t correct
Took this border picture last year:
Asphalt is the czech republic, dirt is germany. It’s “EU” letters by the side of the track.
Thanks!
Thank you for your efforts to get lemmy going!
Have you any idea about the amount of paperwork necessary in Germany to pave a path that’s going through a forest or, gods forbid, natural reserve, and that’s before you need a study looking at the impact paving will have on the local population of red-footed sparkle toads. Ain’t no bureaucrat doing that willingly.
Best you can hope for is a fresh gravel resurfacing, which TBH is plenty for a foot/bikepath. Foresters certainly won’t complain their stuff can drive off-road, also, they’re usually bureaucrats themselves and would be stuck with the paperwork.
Yeah i’ve got a bit of an idea, but not everything needs to be paved either.
The path wasn’t bad on the german side, not that i remember. Looks a bit swampy at the border though.
Ok, so there’s a certain irony seeing this directly above and posted 1h after an identical post by someone else, same meme, same title - seeing it shortly after reading your post about duplicates on Reddit.
It is literally crossposted:
I guess you are using a mobile app that doesn’t show crossposts?
I… guess it doesn’t. I’m on Jerboa. I thought it did mark crossposts - I did look for this being a crosspost before I commented - but apparently not!
It might allow to do them but not display them? In any case, good to know!
