Question for Europeans

Depresion wrote:
> "Brimstone" > wrote in message
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>> Depresion wrote:
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>>>> Depresion wrote:
>>>>> "Brimstone" > wrote in message
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>>>>>> Contrary to popular mythology roads have been improved to allow
>>>>>> faster
>>>>>> speeds and railways are now carrying more people than ever
>>>>>> before, despite significant reductions in track mileage.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 3/4 or UK's local roads are deteriorating year on year. We are
>>>>> £8.3 billon behind in road maintenance. By last year the plan was
>>>>> to have halted the deterioration but it hasn't happened and by
>>>>> 2010 we were
>>>>> to have caught up and removed the backlog unfortunately the first
>>>>> part was no where near achieved as about 50% of the money
>>>>> allocated
>>>>> for maintenance is being spent elsewhere on things like speed
>>>>> cushions, bus lanes, and what's laughably called our education
>>>>> system
>>>>> by local authorities. It's about time that money allocated by the
>>>>> national government for road maintenance is reserved only for use
>>>>> in actually maintaining roads.
>>>>
>>>> I wasn't talking about maintenance, but then you were aware of that
>>>> before your petulant little rant weren't you?.
>>>
>>> How can you make claims about "roads have been improved" when 3/4's
>>> of them are so badly maintained they are deteriorating and there is
>>> more than a six year backlog in fixing them.
>>
>> Because construction (i.e. provision of new roads, flyovers,
>> underpasses etc) is different from maintaining them and keeping them
>> in good order. Is that too difficult for you to understand?.
>
> As the general condition of 72% of roads is deteriorating (used for
> more than 75% of commuting) then the tiny amount of road building is
> hardly going to make for a general improvement. So if 72% of roads
> are deteriorating what percentage are actually improving or new?
> Quite clearly less than 30% and you some how expect that to offset
> the deterioration of the other roads.

Quite obviously the concept is too difficult for you.