Lisa
ayoThis is amazing 🤣
Kevin Karhan 
@ayo this is literally true...
As a Germany, you'll notice it because speed limits are far lower, but roads look like freshly built.
Chaeyoung
Wesley de Groot
Dreamwinder
@dreamwinder the left side of the picture is the bicycle path 😅
Marco van Burgsteden 🍋@ayo in fact, this road is not according to the guidelines. The cycling markings are way too narrow.
Derick Rethans@derickr @ayo They're not supposed to. This is a rural local road, not meant for through traffic. Formally, this type of road should not have bicycle markings at all, only dashed lines to create a visually narrower road. But the bicycle symbols have now made it an official cycling strip, making it very nonconforming to the guide lines.
Mrs.Hudson 🌱I live there, and as a country we have many, many faults. But we do have way better roads (and cycle paths!) than Belgium.
Bastian Greshake Tzovaras@ayo This is what makes the Netherlands one of the easiest countries to ID on GeoGuessr 😂
Dennis "D.C." Dietrich@ayo, for me it's going from no Internet on the train from Germany to suddenly having 5G. :D
Ellen@ayo There is a border between the Netherlands and Belgium. You know you've passed it into Belgium when the tarmac gets really bad all of a sudden.
WOMUMP@ayo The edge of #CambridgeUK is also quite noticeable (although facilities obv rather less good than .nl)
@ayo (this is a swiz, the sign and cycle lane are 200m outside the district boundary for some reason; even the slightly fancier cycle lane starting in the distance doesn't quite line up with the boundary)
@energiepirat@ayo Of course. It begins at the end of Germany...
Gary@ayo so true! There are lots of examples on the NL-BE border. (And while you here, have a look at the border in Baarle-Nassau. A GPS nightmare.
Sorry, not sorry I’m Canadian 🇨🇦@ayo and LOL, there’s a car driving in the bike lane
stux⚡️@ayo lol! And accurate 
PointyFluff@ayo In fall of 2001 I decided to hike the WA portion of the PCT; starting in BC. My first night would have me on the US side, as I started in Manning Park, near the border.
On the Canadian side was nicely labeled trails and forks, immaculate camp-sites (more than ONE) w/ steel fire rings, pack-animal facilities, the nicest back-country toilets, and laminated topo-maps at nearly every fork in the trail! Wonderful experience!
On the US side was a shite-encrusted pit-toilet.
needless to say I hiked the 13Km BACK into Canada for one night at an actual nice campsite. (up-hill, both ways!)
It was the last toilet-seat I would see for another month...
S. Z. Attwell ☕️💻@ayo hahahahaha
JepharyIn my province in Canada, we used to joke while driving when we moved from one county to another richer one - smoother roads.
alextastic@ayo I like the content, but I kinda hope this doesn't just turn into another means of sharing screenshots from other apps.
PeteYou get this in the UK travelling between different counties. Devon into Cornwall is a big decline in road quality. Unfortunately they've lost many of the EU subsidies they got, but they were one of the biggest supporters of Brexit so they had it coming to them.
Matt
Steve Popovich@ayo it's the same way in the US...state lines aren't all that obvious and the signs can be a mile or so off, but when my car hits a filling-loosening pothole, I know that we're back home in Illinois.
Dutchie325@ayo yup bike paths 😂
KilleansRow 🇺🇲 🇺🇦🍀@ayo They of course fail to mention the #Tesseract sitting there as it is not visible to the naked eye but when you pass thru it you will know...
J0hn@ayo so quaint i cant take it!
zeemeermin@ayo with a place to bike
kechpaja@ayo I can’t help noticing the car driving in the bike lane.
McWabbit🐰 has moved@kechpaja @ayo It's a shared low-traffic rural road.
The stripes and red paint are to visually narrow the road, telling the car driver to slow down and be aware of cyclists. On higher speed roads, bicycle lanes are most often separated from cars'.
I can recommend the Not Just Bikes channel on YouTube for more of the Dutch-orientated infrastructure.
The stripes and red paint are to visually narrow the road, telling the car driver to slow down and be aware of cyclists. On higher speed roads, bicycle lanes are most often separated from cars'.
I can recommend the Not Just Bikes channel on YouTube for more of the Dutch-orientated infrastructure.
stirz ✅@ayo In some parts you can only tell from the change in architecture of the houses along the road that you have crossed the Dutch border.
olaolarolla
Zeolith 
@ayo Ever been to Baarle-Nassau/Baarle-Hertog?
Now _that_ one is truly epic.
Gerardo Lisboa@ayo Looks like the roads from Portugal to Spain.
🇺🇦🇪🇺 cweickhmann@ayo No, this is sad. Because there is no magic in what the NL are doing.
MetalSnake
CyclesBecauseSummerIsComing😀@ayo we had the same experience when 🚲 riding into Germany from Austria. Nice cycle path in Austria, barely acceptable asphalt in Germany.
Ronald
Coffee (Team CW)
Laura J. Wilkinson
John Brophy@ayo You used to know you travelled from Ireland into Northern Ireland because the roads got better. Now it's the other way around.
Chiros Rimori@ayo POV: You are leaving Belgium
Antique Krill@ayo If you drove a car through Russian cities and villages not along federal highways, you would think: hmm, is there a road under us at all? 
Karen@ayo This is so true. Having cycled from Amsterdam to Brussels more than once, we always know when we cross the borders.
Su-Shee@ayo and wifi suddenly works.
Jens
korin 🔜 kodi
fortyeight@ayo It should be added that the Dutch side is designed to be highly dangerous for cyclists. With such much (much!) too narrow and only painted bike lanes, cars have been proven to overtake with *even* less distance!! In this particular case, I would prefer the German side.
Nevertheless, it's a good symbolic image of where cyclists are at all existent in traffic planning. 🚴
Jason Smith@ayo once used this kind of thing to make a point that using borders as a control/natural experiment can be problematic because despite being in close proximity and you expect little to change except legal constructs, a lot more can be going on https://informationtransfereconomics.blogspot.com/2019/10/wage-growth-in-ny-and-pa.html
Martijn VosYeah, those look exactly like the border between Belgium and Netherland always feels.
I don't know why Belgium neglects its road maintenance like that, but it's a relatively small country wedged in between larger countries are more likely to travel through than to Belgium, for vacation, transporting goods, etc. Everybody uses Belgian roads, but only the Belgian people pay for them. Maybe the neighbours should chip in.
Roland Siegloff@ayo You can find more examples here: https://gev.be/kategorien/reise-zu-den-letzten-grenzen
Ⓖ𝑒ｏㄥ𝕠ᗪ乇@ayo but true
GJ Groothedde 🇪🇺@ayo This is only amazing if you're not Dutch. 😂😂😂
Smythe@ayo I’ll bet there are roads like that going from Durham into Chapel Hill here in NC (US). #PaintIsNotProtection #InfrastructureMatters