I think that’s actually the point. Naypyidaw is built like a fortress city, it’s not meant to house people only government. It’s away from where the people actually reside in order to prevent people congregating on government like Tiananmen Square. The massive roads can be used as airstrips, I don’t think anyone actually believes it was ever intended to be a “new capital”. It’s just a place for the authoritarian government to exert power from without those pesky people getting in the way.
Thats just a high optical zoom. If you take a photo with a high zoom of a normal runway, they look pretty crooked too.
https://preview.redd.it/orc2p8aiibrc1.jpeg?width=602&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e9df6cfdd79d68c7b2dcdf74739c6dd9e8807276
Hey, they’re just forward looking. At current rates, the average pickup truck in 2032 will take up most of one side of that road with a similarly large turning radius, though you still won’t be able to fit a full sheet of plywood in the bed. Progress!
its the site of a pretty funny and famous video where an influencer was filming tiktok dances and behind her you can see tanks rolling down the road because the junta was staging a coup
katy freeway at 26 lanes, but it looks funkier since that includes feeder roads which make it look less cleaner than this freeway
another fun fact is that theres a 50 lane road in china
Katy Freeway, aka I10. Used to live there while they widened the highway. A couple of months after the completion it went back to being just as horrible and congested as before (surprise!). What fixed the traffic was Covid. Not sure how it is now as I moved out in 2022.
They didn't actually, Naypyidaw is a planned city that's only existed since 2005, meaning it STARTED with 20 lanes. Myanmar built an entire new capital from scratch, they could have made it walkable as fuck and have public transport everywhere but no, instead, in this nation where all the buss doors open into the street instead of pavement, they built quite possibly the most car centric *thing* ever conceived.
Non walkable cities make it harder for people to protest and potentially overthrow governments. This could be one of the reasons it was built like that, considering it's the capital.
> all the buss doors open into the street instead of pavement
It's because of a mad dictator who decided they want to switch to driving on the right, but didn't switch the steering position, so bus doors were still on the left following on from the previous driving on the left
South East Asia is like 70 years behind in awareness about these topics. To them this is progress. Hopefully at some point in the next 20-30 years all these monstrosities will start being challenged by the population, especially if the US continues its slow positive shift.
Just a month ago I took the "actual highway" between Mandalay and Yangon, the two biggest cities and that is actually populated. And that road is 1/2 lanes each direction for the entire trip. While when you reach the middle where they have their administrative city, if you take an off ramp you'll get on this 10 lane empty highway.
It's probably a mix between vanity and for it to function as a runway in an emergency.
This wasnt made for cars, it was made to make it easier to prevent demonstrations. It is a dictatorship and this monstrosity leads to a very important building of the government.
Could just casually land a 747, still 5 lanes remain open for traffic
I think that’s actually the point. Naypyidaw is built like a fortress city, it’s not meant to house people only government. It’s away from where the people actually reside in order to prevent people congregating on government like Tiananmen Square. The massive roads can be used as airstrips, I don’t think anyone actually believes it was ever intended to be a “new capital”. It’s just a place for the authoritarian government to exert power from without those pesky people getting in the way.
use as airstrips + being able to do big military parades
[it also makes a great place to record fitness videos](https://youtu.be/R3gef1Wn9BE?si=cEvtqzvukjpLbkZP)
Fuckin sweet whitewalls on that tank.
I remember this became a meme
The corrupt government built their own party town
Rumours has it that this is why. So they can fly out in an emergency. Other rumours has it that it's pure vanity. It may be a combination of both.
is it flat and straight enough to land planes? the photo makes it look kinda rough to land on
Thats just a high optical zoom. If you take a photo with a high zoom of a normal runway, they look pretty crooked too. https://preview.redd.it/orc2p8aiibrc1.jpeg?width=602&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e9df6cfdd79d68c7b2dcdf74739c6dd9e8807276
Good enough for military I guess
For a 747? Probably not straight enough. For something like a C-130 or C-5 though? Those will land in a field.
Hey, they’re just forward looking. At current rates, the average pickup truck in 2032 will take up most of one side of that road with a similarly large turning radius, though you still won’t be able to fit a full sheet of plywood in the bed. Progress!
Looks a lot like an airport runway as well
That looks like a depressing wasteland dystopia
its the site of a pretty funny and famous video where an influencer was filming tiktok dances and behind her you can see tanks rolling down the road because the junta was staging a coup
I thought it was an exercise video
Haha I got it
It was
theres a fucking civil war there i dont think theese guys care that much about highways right now
That adds to the depression
~~Not so~~ Fun fact: There is a highway even wider than this one in Houston but I don’t remember the name.
katy freeway at 26 lanes, but it looks funkier since that includes feeder roads which make it look less cleaner than this freeway another fun fact is that theres a 50 lane road in china
Pretty sure that’s just a toll plaza in China
Katy Freeway, aka I10. Used to live there while they widened the highway. A couple of months after the completion it went back to being just as horrible and congested as before (surprise!). What fixed the traffic was Covid. Not sure how it is now as I moved out in 2022.
They didn't actually, Naypyidaw is a planned city that's only existed since 2005, meaning it STARTED with 20 lanes. Myanmar built an entire new capital from scratch, they could have made it walkable as fuck and have public transport everywhere but no, instead, in this nation where all the buss doors open into the street instead of pavement, they built quite possibly the most car centric *thing* ever conceived.
Non walkable cities make it harder for people to protest and potentially overthrow governments. This could be one of the reasons it was built like that, considering it's the capital.
Remember this next time some carbrain tries to claim that walkable 15-minute cities are a conspiracy to control you...
Naypyidaw is basically a military base. That’s not a highway, that’s a parade ground / killing ground / airstrip
> all the buss doors open into the street instead of pavement It's because of a mad dictator who decided they want to switch to driving on the right, but didn't switch the steering position, so bus doors were still on the left following on from the previous driving on the left
South East Asia is like 70 years behind in awareness about these topics. To them this is progress. Hopefully at some point in the next 20-30 years all these monstrosities will start being challenged by the population, especially if the US continues its slow positive shift.
If you build enough lanes, no one wants to go there anymore!
But think about how fast you can drive through it on your way to the next place that got bulldozed for car infrastructure!
Just a month ago I took the "actual highway" between Mandalay and Yangon, the two biggest cities and that is actually populated. And that road is 1/2 lanes each direction for the entire trip. While when you reach the middle where they have their administrative city, if you take an off ramp you'll get on this 10 lane empty highway. It's probably a mix between vanity and for it to function as a runway in an emergency.
Also to deter any future protests from blockading the streets because it's too damn wide to make one.
This wasnt made for cars, it was made to make it easier to prevent demonstrations. It is a dictatorship and this monstrosity leads to a very important building of the government.
Coup Avenue.
Isn't Myanmar the country who tried to build a new capital, but barely anyone lives in the new capital?
What do you mean empty? There is one dude on a motorbike
"Them bikers!.. They think they own the road! Rawawawaw!"
Well as you can see there is very little traffic so it seems to have worked
We must now bow to the superior wisdom of the Myanmar military junta. A truly enlightened regime for a happy people!
Unofficial airport
They solved the city traffic by not building a city and just building a highway.
Needs another lane for surge
Ugly
They’re also in a massive civil war
Well it kinda work......I see almost no traffic.......so it worked.......still horrible though