Am I asking too much?

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Owamanga wrote:

4,148,395km paved roads for 293,027,571 people. 0.014157km/person
371,913km paved roads for 60,270,708 people. 0.006170km/person

Put another way, the US maintains more than double the amount of road
surface per person than the UK, plus ours are wider. So I guess it
makes sense that there is a quality difference.

Perhaps out in the sticks, bute you'd at least expect the major arterial
routes in large conurbations to be in a better state than they are in the
US.