well the UK has a truly archaic road system, it's often 5+ times longer to get to where you are going than the crow flies ;)
our road layouts were based on medieval streets....
almost none of our roads are concrete based, so in a chilly, high rainfall land, with extreme urban density, that results in constant erosion and potholes of the non-concreted roads.
but that keeps the road maintenance business going...

lol

yeah, bureacracy and stratification are the enemy of all systems :/
like the music biz, screaming that it's the fault of pirates that they're revenues are going down
well, kids have more things ot spend on nowadays,
the execs ran the music business into the gorund by promoting only crap stuff and screwing the artists in outrageous fashions (typically getting $100 dollars for every dollar the artist got)
plus other issues

few years ago a study showed that 75% of all Mp3s traded on P2P, were music tracks 15 years old or more...ie, few folk like the current drivel, big surprise there, hehe.

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