In Myanmar (Burma) there is a new capital city called Naypyidaw where few people live and even less visit. Running past the Parliament building is an S20 road that looks like this
There's an article about the place in today's Independent
You might expect a road of these dimensions to have impressive GSJ's, but no. In fact there are some impressive T junction side roads, including one D2. At the western end the S20 road meets an S4 road at a T junction, which must be the mother of all T junctions.
Suspicion is this is a bit of future proofing in that the road is planned as a landing strip for a large aircraft for when the government has to be airlfted to safety when the uprising happens which would seem a sensible plan, if it weren't for the bend in the road.
Derek
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Top Gear went there and the road was so quiet they played football on it, which was probably a ploy for the cameras but still showed the sheer scale of the place.
It's huge.
Bryn Terminally cynical, unimpressed, and nearly Middle Age already. She said life was like a motorway; dull, grey, and long.
There is a documentary on YouTube Burma land of the absurd in either French or English, the documentariest is French, the grandson of a former prime minister.
Sabristically it explains the absurdity of Burma switching to driving on the right, yet buying buses from Thailand, and of course Nipyadaw.
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A bit further along, there's another 20 lane road that doesn't quite manage to cross the river, instead reverting to a couple of more normal looking roads. It's an odd sight!
Derek wrote:In Myanmar (Burma) there is a new capital city called Naypyidaw where few people live and even less visit. Running past the Parliament building is an S20 road that looks like this
orudge wrote:A bit further along, there's another 20 lane road that doesn't quite manage to cross the river, instead reverting to a couple of more normal looking roads. It's an odd sight!
The 2 halves don't even appear to be even close to lining up either. Follow the road right and up and there's a tight looking hairpin too.
orudge wrote:A bit further along, there's another 20 lane road that doesn't quite manage to cross the river, instead reverting to a couple of more normal looking roads. It's an odd sight!
The 2 halves don't even appear to be even close to lining up either. Follow the road right and up and there's a tight looking hairpin too.
At it's western end there's a railway level crossing just before another manic T junction and just west of the near-bridge it gets crossed at grade by an obviously far more important S2 road. I'd almost tempted to got here just to see this!
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That was my first thought, but the one split in half by the river bridges has two colossal parade grounds leading off it if you follow it east, so they have plenty of room for parading around.
However, I would be willing to believe the military demanded them to be built this way - much of the new "city" is military-based and the military continues to have a very strong role in government in Burma.
Or it may just be with the intention of looking impressive. Certainly, if you look at the way the roads arbitrarily narrow down when they encounter any kind of obstacle (the first one abruptly sheds two or three lanes on each side approaching a roundabout), the aim of them seems to be maximum surface area and nothing at all to do with providing a particular number of lanes.
This documentary, the French version has some sabristic interest in it.
Burma switched to driving on the right because the dictator at the time's soothsayer told him to move to the right.
It shows the motorway from Rangoon to Nipyadaw, where the toll booths are set to accept cars with RHD, as most vehicles are second hand imported from Thailand. Including the buses.
The currency has notes of 45 and 90 kyat because they are his lucky numbers.
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Basically what I am saying, and the documentary by Monsieur Mendes France is saying, is this is Burma. All your guesses to why Nipyadaw needs said road are probably accurate.
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This documentary, the French version has some sabristic interest in it.
Burma switched to driving on the right because the dictator at the time's soothsayer told him to move to the right.
It shows the motorway from Rangoon to Nipyadaw, where the toll booths are set to accept cars with RHD, as most vehicles are second hand imported from Thailand. Including the buses.
The currency has notes of 45 and 90 kyat because they are his lucky numbers.
I heard most of the traffic lights are still positioned for RHD, especially in Rangoon.
This documentary, the French version has some sabristic interest in it.
Burma switched to driving on the right because the dictator at the time's soothsayer told him to move to the right.
It shows the motorway from Rangoon to Nipyadaw, where the toll booths are set to accept cars with RHD, as most vehicles are second hand imported from Thailand. Including the buses.
The currency has notes of 45 and 90 kyat because they are his lucky numbers.
I heard most of the traffic lights are still positioned for RHD, especially in Rangoon.
Occasionally in the documentary you can see the drive on left infrastructure fully intact. The biopic about Aung San Suu Kyi was filmed in Thailand so the Thai roadsigns looked correctly out of place on the left.
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Reminds me of that crazy-wide road in North Korea, which is usually devoid of any kind of traffic.
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