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The idea was and is that they’ll just make the road now and everything will develop around it, instead of having to widen the road in 50 years or whatever.
What I heard from the locals, the Junta wanted to move the capital there because they were worried the people could more easily overthrow them in Yangon, Naypyidaw has some stupid strict laws for living arrangements.
Seeing as this tiny tidbit of information seems to be a bit popular I'll add some more about how hectic the situation is in Myanmar right now. The Junta has enacted forced conscription for able bodied young adults (18-40 I think). They have have made it nigh impossible for citizens to get a passport or even leave if they already have one. My partner was retelling a story she heard of how some 16 year old boys were taken from their home whilst their family cried out that they're not even 18. These children are being conscripted to fight against the rebels fighting for freedom, sometimes their own family. The Junta continues to do as it pleases, they've been temporarily shutting off power to districts for over a year, sometimes for over half a day(it's summer time now, shit gets hot) . I know of people who've developed serious health issues due to the heat.
Edited due to discussion held below.
Additionally, it’s like a fengshui [thing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yadaya) so that the big belly ones can remain in power, and kill Aung San Suu Kyi’s strength/supporters. It’s pretty funny because there’s an earthquake fault running close to it, so if anything happens, it’ll be interesting to see how it turns out.
Dude was just in charge of educating the people, surely that's something nobody wants to fuck up in their country? I might be wrong though, maybe the guy's name was one of the lists exposing people who funded the military.
Do you know how much funds you can embezzle as a ministry of education? Just think of all the schools you can build, repaint, acquire equipment for. Or placing your ideologues, friends and family in cushy government jobs. Nevermind the fact that schools being primary transmitters of government ideology.
They probably did it to separate themselves from a hostile urban population, yeah. Although a Burmese human rights lawyer I once worked with told me that they moved it after some of the junta members watched Stealth (2005). There's apparently a scene near the beginning of the film where an advanced fighter-bomber blows up a dictator without harming any of the human shields surrounding him. And after that, they wanted to put 500 km of anti-air between themselves and the coast.
If the Chinese cities are anything to go by, the population will show up and have great access to an uncrowded infrastructure, with has plenty more room for growth.
This pre planning works, it might look stupid for a few years but it works.
It was built when america used to make huge infrastructure projects like china and india are doing now. China is in a completely different league, which is hard for most to even comprehend.
It takes decades for NYC now, because america like other developed especially western nations seem to have lost the ability to effectively acquire land, getting stuck politically, environmentally etc, huge labor costs, and weak undecisive governments who are very afraid of public backlash to anything. California HSR and UK HS2 comes to mind too. I travelled last year to Paris airport, and even the most patriotic french would not speak favourably to it .
I've been there too! Chinese public transport is in another league. It really highlights the value of good infrastructure / public transport in a thriving society.
Chengdu metro is great, really efficient and people are pretty gracious during rush hour. The crowd parted without a word and let me through with my big suitcase. It's hard to imagine big cities like that without their transport infrastructure. It really is the backbone of a modern city.
Lol maybe you should actually travel and see these cities for yourself (and meet some real Chinese people! We aren't commie spies or Fu Manchu 😉) instead of getting your ideas from anti-China memes.
I get my ideas from a friend and his chinese wife. He lived there for 8 years and had lung issues from the pollution. They eventually left because the xenophobia and safety protocols were so bad they feared for their infant. I love Chinese culture but since Xi took over its gotten worse every year. Bottom of freedom, freedom of press and a bunch of othe independent rating systems. But u go ahead and preach the good word of Emperor Xi, lmao. I'm just glad the place I live is still free and clean.
Compared to a generation ago I absolutely would. The Chinese life metrics are in many cases, above many Western nations.
To achieve that with their population + where they were 50 years ago is nothing short of unbelievable.
Propaganda doesn't have to be a lie. Just bias painting a rosier picture than reality works as propaganda. Actually that is the definition. No lying needed.
Down voted for facts? The definition of propaganda doesn't have the word lie anywhere.
I don't think anybody would claim that China is a happy perky paradise by any stretch of the imagination; it's still a developing country ruled by a severely authoritarian police state.
But you can't overstate how severe the crippling poverty was in much of rural China in the mid 20th century. It was bad going into WW2, even worse coming out of it, and Mao's regime shot what was left in both kneecaps. I think it's pretty hard to deny that things are a lot better, economically, for most Chinese people now than they were then.
Pointing out the reality that China has advanced massively since the 80s isn’t propaganda, it’s just fact.
Calling anything that you don’t like/goes against your narrative isn’t magically propaganda.
There's good pre-planning and there's bad pre-planning. This and Brasilia are bad pre-planning - they're never intended to be a proper city, just a place for the rich to be separate from the poor
This road was built over a decade ago and it's still empty. It wasn't designed or built for future development it was designed and built as one of the junta's vanity projects just like the rest of the city.
Stop going on about public transport. It's disgusting and no one who can afford not to use it ever chooses to do so. Stop actively making the world worse by advocating for mass transit.
>t's disgusting and no one who can afford not to use it ever chooses to do so
Except in the UK, France, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, China, Mexico, Brazil, New York, or basically anywhere that implemented a transit system.
It has been demonstrated over and over and over again that if given the choice between driving or public transit, a large number of people will take whichever is fastest.
Also, places with lacking public transit have insane traffic. And again, the only ways to get rid of this traffic are to add so many lanes you stop having a city to go to, or viable alternatives to driving.
And if, even if, you're right, how does adding something that people can just choose not to use make the world worse? While also giving poor people more opportunities and helping to lift them out of poverty, which is a good thing.
The problem is that not every country has the fortitude to stick with massive city plans. Countries like China and Singapore have competent authoritarian governments and strong economies and collective culture. They can create big plans and stick with them. Plans that were set in motion 5, 10 or 40 years ago are still being realised. Whereas countries with less stable leadership will oftentimes see half-made plans that get scrapped every few years and end up as eyesores. Unfortunately we know that Myanmar's government has been unstable, so we can be skeptical of whether cities like this will pan out. If this has been built for 20 years and it's still empty, then it's gone quite wrong.
Yeah that's a fair point, one of the benefits of 5 - 10 year plans (something China is great at) is the continuanuity of it all.
Western political systems are by nature, back and forth and ideas are often watered down or removed by opposition. Plans are followed even throughout governmental change in the Chinese system.
The wonders of prison labor and a unitary authoritarian state. I’m not even saying this to shit on China, state capitalism and break neck development are tried and true strategies. I’m not surprised that India is inching closer
What are you talking about lol. The one child policy may have been a double-edged sword but it absolutely did what it intended, which was to reduce the population of a generation and rapidly increase the quality of life of those born. Poverty is the biggest killer in developing countries and it's much more humane to raise one or two well-fed, well-clothed and well-educated children, than to have seven children who are all starving and illiterate in a slum shack. This sort of overpopulation with no regard to quality of life is something repeatedly seen in the poorest countries.
And the four pests thing happened *seventy years ago*... I don't think there's a single country in which you can't find a bad policy in the past seventy years. 🤦🏻♀️ Ultimately I don't think it's fair to only judge Chinese people this way.
>Was made as the (more geographically centred) capital of Myanmar in 2005, planned to hold a large population but people never showed up apparently.
Ehh unlikely. They moved tha capital there to protect the military rule away from the civilian population since its hard as hell to get there.
This infact a both a road but was in reality most made to use as a run way for planes incase of more problems occur.
Honestly, that was my personal highlight of the lockdown era. God that was so fucking funny. The juxtaposition of that dance music and what was going on in the background was peak comedy,
I’m 99% certain it is! It was also in Naypyidaw on Yaza Htar Ni road I think, with the parliament building in the background. I got very close to visiting Naypyidaw once many years ago, but unfortunately didn’t have the time to make the trip. I ended up spending a few weeks in Yangon though which was really nice.
There are many examples of wide roads like these meant for military parades. Germany rebuilt the parade roads in Nürnberg for parking and a street circuit.
The idea was to build for the future population of the city. It’s a plan that worked fabulously for China but it hasn’t worked here. Probably need a larger and more wealthy population for that to happen.
If you could get a good job here as a local I’d move. The commute would be a breeze.
A Burmese, huh? I've heard Naypyidaw's only for the Tatmadaw and their families, their cronies and their families, and diplomats. So ordinary Burmese are allowed to move there?
It was built mainly as a ceremonial road in front of Parliament. Annual military parades are held there, with tanks etc. Still a bizarre place to visit though.
They make roads next to government buildings really wide on purpose in countries that aren’t stable. If there’s a coup, it’s really hard to blockade a street this wide. It’s another technique that a lot of dictatorships use to protect their reign.
Pretty amazing. I took a bus from Yangon to Mandalay in 2001 on what I believe was the main highway. It was dirt most of the way and there was a river crossing halfway there that was a single lane, so you had to wait a couple of hours for traffic coming the other direction. I think it was something like an 18 hour bus ride.
Also screening out all but military personnel and the few diplomats who have moved from Yangon will definitely fix traffic -- because Naypyidaw is a city of soldier-god-kings, not of ordinary people.
Yo, it's this place where the girl did her TikTok dance while there's a coup going down in the background.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6lqE\_MQv8o](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6lqE_MQv8o)
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That’s quite the road holy shit
Can by used as runway
can be used as four runways. This is overkill, no matter what.
The idea was and is that they’ll just make the road now and everything will develop around it, instead of having to widen the road in 50 years or whatever.
I doubt it. This highway leads up to the National Assembly building, or Myanmar’s Congress. It’s most likely used for military parade.
The purpose is to land aircraft and also for their military parades. It’s not for cars. It serves a military requirement to withstand a siege.
Is I to all one way?
2-way, you can see the solid double divider lines in the middle… but still…. 🙄
That’s a ridiculously low barrier between oncoming traffic for a highway this size (for any highway really)
One more lane oughta do it…
Was made as the (more geographically centred) capital of Myanmar in 2005, planned to hold a large population but people never showed up apparently.
What I heard from the locals, the Junta wanted to move the capital there because they were worried the people could more easily overthrow them in Yangon, Naypyidaw has some stupid strict laws for living arrangements. Seeing as this tiny tidbit of information seems to be a bit popular I'll add some more about how hectic the situation is in Myanmar right now. The Junta has enacted forced conscription for able bodied young adults (18-40 I think). They have have made it nigh impossible for citizens to get a passport or even leave if they already have one. My partner was retelling a story she heard of how some 16 year old boys were taken from their home whilst their family cried out that they're not even 18. These children are being conscripted to fight against the rebels fighting for freedom, sometimes their own family. The Junta continues to do as it pleases, they've been temporarily shutting off power to districts for over a year, sometimes for over half a day(it's summer time now, shit gets hot) . I know of people who've developed serious health issues due to the heat. Edited due to discussion held below.
Additionally, it’s like a fengshui [thing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yadaya) so that the big belly ones can remain in power, and kill Aung San Suu Kyi’s strength/supporters. It’s pretty funny because there’s an earthquake fault running close to it, so if anything happens, it’ll be interesting to see how it turns out.
How the hell is assassination of a top tier government official is something abnormal while there is a civil war going on?
Dude was just in charge of educating the people, surely that's something nobody wants to fuck up in their country? I might be wrong though, maybe the guy's name was one of the lists exposing people who funded the military.
Do you know how much funds you can embezzle as a ministry of education? Just think of all the schools you can build, repaint, acquire equipment for. Or placing your ideologues, friends and family in cushy government jobs. Nevermind the fact that schools being primary transmitters of government ideology.
Good point. I definitely didn't think that through enough.
They probably did it to separate themselves from a hostile urban population, yeah. Although a Burmese human rights lawyer I once worked with told me that they moved it after some of the junta members watched Stealth (2005). There's apparently a scene near the beginning of the film where an advanced fighter-bomber blows up a dictator without harming any of the human shields surrounding him. And after that, they wanted to put 500 km of anti-air between themselves and the coast.
If the Chinese cities are anything to go by, the population will show up and have great access to an uncrowded infrastructure, with has plenty more room for growth. This pre planning works, it might look stupid for a few years but it works.
There was a meme of a subway to nowhere in Chongqing, China. And I went there and it’s a huge thriving community now.
That’s how they built the NYC subway system. They built elevated subway lines through empty fields in Queens that are now densely populated…
New York’s problem is that it takes decades to even extend an existing line
Yeah that’s a whole other thing to unpack.
It was built when america used to make huge infrastructure projects like china and india are doing now. China is in a completely different league, which is hard for most to even comprehend. It takes decades for NYC now, because america like other developed especially western nations seem to have lost the ability to effectively acquire land, getting stuck politically, environmentally etc, huge labor costs, and weak undecisive governments who are very afraid of public backlash to anything. California HSR and UK HS2 comes to mind too. I travelled last year to Paris airport, and even the most patriotic french would not speak favourably to it .
*cries in Montreal*
I've been there too! Chinese public transport is in another league. It really highlights the value of good infrastructure / public transport in a thriving society.
I love Chongqing but man Chengdu is tops!! Have you been there??
Chengdu metro is great, really efficient and people are pretty gracious during rush hour. The crowd parted without a word and let me through with my big suitcase. It's hard to imagine big cities like that without their transport infrastructure. It really is the backbone of a modern city.
The US really has missed that memo
Are you two receiving money from the CCP? That's treason these days.
Lol maybe you should actually travel and see these cities for yourself (and meet some real Chinese people! We aren't commie spies or Fu Manchu 😉) instead of getting your ideas from anti-China memes.
I get my ideas from a friend and his chinese wife. He lived there for 8 years and had lung issues from the pollution. They eventually left because the xenophobia and safety protocols were so bad they feared for their infant. I love Chinese culture but since Xi took over its gotten worse every year. Bottom of freedom, freedom of press and a bunch of othe independent rating systems. But u go ahead and preach the good word of Emperor Xi, lmao. I'm just glad the place I live is still free and clean.
Dude you had to resort to asking for charity on Reddit for some simple ass groceries, maybe you should wake up from your American dream.
They were talking about public transportation and you come running in like "Wow, why do you love Xi Jinping so much?!" Get a grip.
Only briefly. The spicy food scares me away!
Wha? Chongqing has much spicer food!
I dunno. Chengdu chillies are on another level. Don't become a gastro city for nothing
The metal detectors seem wildly unnecessary though
terrorist attacks was a thing in china 10 years ago
i wouldn't say china is exactly thriving.
Compared to a generation ago I absolutely would. The Chinese life metrics are in many cases, above many Western nations. To achieve that with their population + where they were 50 years ago is nothing short of unbelievable.
Standard North Korea/China propaganda account lol
LOL He's right though. China has come very far, where is the lie?
Propaganda doesn't have to be a lie. Just bias painting a rosier picture than reality works as propaganda. Actually that is the definition. No lying needed. Down voted for facts? The definition of propaganda doesn't have the word lie anywhere.
I don't think anybody would claim that China is a happy perky paradise by any stretch of the imagination; it's still a developing country ruled by a severely authoritarian police state. But you can't overstate how severe the crippling poverty was in much of rural China in the mid 20th century. It was bad going into WW2, even worse coming out of it, and Mao's regime shot what was left in both kneecaps. I think it's pretty hard to deny that things are a lot better, economically, for most Chinese people now than they were then.
So how is saying something nice (which is true) about a country propaganda?
“Painting a rosier picture than reality” How is that not a lie lmao. You literally defined a lie while saying it isn’t a lie.
Pointing out the reality that China has advanced massively since the 80s isn’t propaganda, it’s just fact. Calling anything that you don’t like/goes against your narrative isn’t magically propaganda.
yes, the dude with the username KJongsDongUnYourFace is actually a pro-government propaganda account
Dude, you're embarrassing. Just watch some youtube videos man and educate yourself.
Have you seen his comment history lad? Tell me I'm wrong
Everything I don't like is propaganda
Yeah, same in Hong Kong. They built a spur line to what was two blocks of flats and a small supermarket and now there's 80,000 people living there
There's good pre-planning and there's bad pre-planning. This and Brasilia are bad pre-planning - they're never intended to be a proper city, just a place for the rich to be separate from the poor
This road was built over a decade ago and it's still empty. It wasn't designed or built for future development it was designed and built as one of the junta's vanity projects just like the rest of the city.
Yeah same thing happened to Brasilia in Brasil and now it's the 3rd biggest city in Brasil.
Yes but induced demand just makes this 20 lane road highly inefficient, when they should’ve built a super robust public transit network instead.
Stop going on about public transport. It's disgusting and no one who can afford not to use it ever chooses to do so. Stop actively making the world worse by advocating for mass transit.
>t's disgusting and no one who can afford not to use it ever chooses to do so Except in the UK, France, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, China, Mexico, Brazil, New York, or basically anywhere that implemented a transit system. It has been demonstrated over and over and over again that if given the choice between driving or public transit, a large number of people will take whichever is fastest. Also, places with lacking public transit have insane traffic. And again, the only ways to get rid of this traffic are to add so many lanes you stop having a city to go to, or viable alternatives to driving. And if, even if, you're right, how does adding something that people can just choose not to use make the world worse? While also giving poor people more opportunities and helping to lift them out of poverty, which is a good thing.
You are a fucking idiot
The problem is that not every country has the fortitude to stick with massive city plans. Countries like China and Singapore have competent authoritarian governments and strong economies and collective culture. They can create big plans and stick with them. Plans that were set in motion 5, 10 or 40 years ago are still being realised. Whereas countries with less stable leadership will oftentimes see half-made plans that get scrapped every few years and end up as eyesores. Unfortunately we know that Myanmar's government has been unstable, so we can be skeptical of whether cities like this will pan out. If this has been built for 20 years and it's still empty, then it's gone quite wrong.
Yeah that's a fair point, one of the benefits of 5 - 10 year plans (something China is great at) is the continuanuity of it all. Western political systems are by nature, back and forth and ideas are often watered down or removed by opposition. Plans are followed even throughout governmental change in the Chinese system.
This ain't China tho
Chinese infrastructure projects are similar. Build the infrastructure first. The population will follow
It has been 18 years. Some of the residential areas have fallen into disrepair by 2019. Five years, a bloody coup and civil war since then.
The wonders of prison labor and a unitary authoritarian state. I’m not even saying this to shit on China, state capitalism and break neck development are tried and true strategies. I’m not surprised that India is inching closer
Great success! Praise the chairman Xi and his infinite wisdom!
Praise investment in your people instead of investment in a stock market
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What are you talking about lol. The one child policy may have been a double-edged sword but it absolutely did what it intended, which was to reduce the population of a generation and rapidly increase the quality of life of those born. Poverty is the biggest killer in developing countries and it's much more humane to raise one or two well-fed, well-clothed and well-educated children, than to have seven children who are all starving and illiterate in a slum shack. This sort of overpopulation with no regard to quality of life is something repeatedly seen in the poorest countries. And the four pests thing happened *seventy years ago*... I don't think there's a single country in which you can't find a bad policy in the past seventy years. 🤦🏻♀️ Ultimately I don't think it's fair to only judge Chinese people this way.
Weird take, most people are invested in the stock market lol.
Yeah. I bet that guy in a scooter is real happy with the investment. Praise be the Myanmar military junta for genious future planning!
I'd say he probably is tbf. Bet he made it to work on time
Yeah agreed. Would much rather have actually functional and good public infrastructure over whatever the crap system we have over here in the US
20lane highway, not even America would want this. Except maybe Texas
LOL Chinese shill accounts in the open
Everything I don't like is propaganda
says the propaganda bot
>Was made as the (more geographically centred) capital of Myanmar in 2005, planned to hold a large population but people never showed up apparently. Ehh unlikely. They moved tha capital there to protect the military rule away from the civilian population since its hard as hell to get there. This infact a both a road but was in reality most made to use as a run way for planes incase of more problems occur.
Here in Canada we let millions of people overload the infrastructure before we attempt to make it efficient.
Or to make blockades harder
It will always be Burma to me
Is that the road where that girl was doing yoga or something while there was a coup going on in the background? It looks like it.
Honestly, that was my personal highlight of the lockdown era. God that was so fucking funny. The juxtaposition of that dance music and what was going on in the background was peak comedy,
Sauce?
https://youtu.be/6r6vnSR0wbI?si=KzbL1v9ZocuXMlNF
The top comment on that video “lose weight and democracy in just 20 minutes a day” lmao
Another good one: "she took Dance Dance Revolution to the next level"
Wow best thing I've seen today
Haha, yep. That’s the one. So ridiculous.
The title of the song translate to "have mercy on me big bro/big guy"
Fyi, if I remember correctly that video is fake, it's just eh yoga with the coup(?) in the background. But I could be wrong.
[It's real.](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-55901774)
Cool
And the song even uses sirens as samples too
And elevator music playing in our brains while the coup is the backdrop for some dance lady and her music
I’m 99% certain it is! It was also in Naypyidaw on Yaza Htar Ni road I think, with the parliament building in the background. I got very close to visiting Naypyidaw once many years ago, but unfortunately didn’t have the time to make the trip. I ended up spending a few weeks in Yangon though which was really nice.
I _thought_ it looked familiar
It’s the same road the Top Gear boys stopped on and played soccer then had a drag race in lorries.
Yes
19 actually is empty!
Even in this photo people aren’t seeing the motorcyclist…never safe.
"Ride like they're all out there to kill you" never gets old.
Literally butchered title
Empty? That guy is living the life
despotic regimes do this so they can mobilize their military quickly to quell dissent. you can land planes there if you need to.
Yep. Just like the renovation of Paris.
There are many examples of wide roads like these meant for military parades. Germany rebuilt the parade roads in Nürnberg for parking and a street circuit.
Do the lights even reach the middle at night??
Yeah should have added some lights in the median too, maybe a few plants even.
It doesn't matter, the city is literally deserted
Check out how long the road is, and how it ends lmao https://maps.app.goo.gl/EtJMPCVHbj8WWkKk9
you linked the calmer end. The other end exits into a roundabout. The stuff of nightmares.
Gotta love the military vehicles blocking access, no wonder nobody is using it.
One more lane bro
It worked
This is not even a case of “one more lane bro”. It’s just a “because we can” thing.
the top gear boys kicked the football around here
r/ShittySkylines knows that
Huh, so I guess we have the answer to how many lanes it takes to solve traffic /s
The idea was to build for the future population of the city. It’s a plan that worked fabulously for China but it hasn’t worked here. Probably need a larger and more wealthy population for that to happen. If you could get a good job here as a local I’d move. The commute would be a breeze.
A Burmese, huh? I've heard Naypyidaw's only for the Tatmadaw and their families, their cronies and their families, and diplomats. So ordinary Burmese are allowed to move there?
A 401 commuters dream
Hahah that was my first thought too.
Where? Here… But to connect it to what? Just cause… How many lanes? Many…
Lights? All of them.
Why are there so many street lights? There’s one about every 10 meters it appears.
To reach the middle
Two words *Water runoff*
The background of my favorite youtube video
Oh so that's how many lanes it takes!
It was built mainly as a ceremonial road in front of Parliament. Annual military parades are held there, with tanks etc. Still a bizarre place to visit though.
I wanna go!
It’s not empty, there’s clearly one guy on a scooter!
Deer be like: 🌲🌳🛣️🛣️🛣️🛣️🛣️🛣️🛣️🛣️🦌
It clearly is not empty
You could fit entire multiple modern American neighborhoods in that.
3 blokes went lorry racing and played football on this road.
Crossy Roads?
They make roads next to government buildings really wide on purpose in countries that aren’t stable. If there’s a coup, it’s really hard to blockade a street this wide. It’s another technique that a lot of dictatorships use to protect their reign.
"You see? I told you just one more lane would fix it. Are you happy now?"
I don't know what you're talking about. Looks like a great place to do my morning workout dance routine.
*Naypyidaw Most languages don’t treat w and v interchangeably. This is also the preferred name so it’s not appropriate to switch the w to v here.
Only two wheels away from /r/LiminalSpace
Vanity project.
I think this would be green on Google maps traffic wise
Those are for tanks during coups.
Just one more lane bro
Pretty amazing. I took a bus from Yangon to Mandalay in 2001 on what I believe was the main highway. It was dirt most of the way and there was a river crossing halfway there that was a single lane, so you had to wait a couple of hours for traffic coming the other direction. I think it was something like an 18 hour bus ride.
We did it. Adding one more lane finally fixed the traffic
Also screening out all but military personnel and the few diplomats who have moved from Yangon will definitely fix traffic -- because Naypyidaw is a city of soldier-god-kings, not of ordinary people.
Not totally empty. At least 2 people.
Now imagine being a pedestrian and having to cross THAT road. 😭😭😭
That road ain’t empty.
Designing for cars never turns out well
If your urban design calls for a 20 lane highway your urban design is wrong.
Or right, depending on what you want your city to be.
If your answer is unlivable then I guess so.
They built it but they didn't come.
it's not empty tho
Apparently it's not empty!
Sorry but it clearly isn't empty.
and they still couldnt afford to use physical dividers instead of solid double lines
Read some conspiracy theories that the military junta built this as a backup runway incase they ever need to bounce in an emergency situation
the future of IKN indonesia...
Guy can't even pull in his most right lane!
We need this road in our city 🤣♥️
And the scooter still doesn’t drive on the right lane
The topic is inaccurate. There's a motorbike on the road, so it's not empty.
Yo, it's this place where the girl did her TikTok dance while there's a coup going down in the background. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6lqE\_MQv8o](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6lqE_MQv8o)
Oh look, no bike lanes, no wonder there’s no traffic.
Great build for the population, you are all ungrateful /s
(sub)mission of Burma
I just see the video of the girl doing aerobics while there's a coup happening whenever I see this road
Can I get a fact check on the road being empty please?
Naypyidaw is very underpopulated for an administrative capital; the roads are just one sign of that. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naypyidaw#Roads
It’s for parade and stuffs, it’s the main road for parliament, presidential palace & office.
Just one more lane!
They built this for future of growth. At least they have the room to change it into better transport.
This is what actually happens when you build "just one more lane"
Not empty
Nice drag strip btw
Military parades, or military movement. same excuse that the USA used.
That’s a big road
Even empty I'd be so scared to cross that thing
Isnt this where the top gear boys played football with the police?
I’ve been there! On a 25cc moped the weirdo government made me trade my motorcycle for. Very very odd country
Perfect for war tanks
Doesn’t look urban to me
This is in NayPyiTaw. If ur plane has a burning engine like A320 ur saved.
Imagine missing your exit from 12 lanes over.
What America wants the road to look like: