Driven in Europe lately? Have you noticed how clear and smooth the roads are? Especially the French.
I once drove all the way from the Italian Alps to London and saw more road works in the motorway from Dover to London than the whole of Europe.
Are our roads that bad? Or are we creating jobs?
Answers on a postcard please....
In Germany I noticed something that, to me, seemed to personify the European attitude towards basic infrastructure. It was a pedestrian underpass being renovated. But I looked closely at the yet-to-be-tackled parts and it wasn't actually in that bad shape. And then I realised that, in the better parts of Europe, they repair things when they're starting to look a little tired. They don't, as we seem to do in England, wait until something has absolutely collapsed around our ankles before deciding to fix it.
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