My village almost got cut off

[@DasMaggie]

correction: they usually only do close both sides of smaller roads if the whole groundwork has to be rebuilt, otherwise at least in the part of Germany im in its the norm to just close 1 side of the road at a time.

[@KaiHenningsen]

Same.

[@boreasreal5911]

same

[@haggi4128]

Actually, it depends on the width of the road if a half-closure is permitted. If the remaining half is too narrow for regular trucks to drive safely, you have to do a full closure.

[@blubbblobb9745]

yeah i just drove a partially closed road like 2 hours ago in southern bavaria

[@saggitt]

Same

[@gerdforster883]

Look, the plans were available long enough in advance. Admittedly in the basement with no light, stuck in a filing cabinet in a disused lavatory with a sign "beware of the leopard" on the door, but that just happens to be the display department.

[@alexandergutfeldt1144]

You forgot to mention the 'Verschlusssache! Geheim!' notices placed over the welds holding the doors shut!😂

[@sebastiant4597]

It's really less exciting and quite profane. It's actually way harder to get out again. Since the clerks get quite exited about finally meeting another human being. You might end up being shown the entirety of planning proceedings they can muster.

[@castlering]

Maybe they were over at Alpha Centauri instead?

[@Wolf-ln1ml]

Always love a good Hitchhiker reference! 🥰

[@Quasimodo-mq8tw]

And thats why Maps need a scale. Wow that look long and inconvienent.."I have to walk almost a kilometer for my nearest bus stop" WOW that is close togehter and very convienient short walk ways! I live in a "Große Kreisstadt" in the Biggest Block Settlment and EVERYTHING is at least 1.7 Kilometers away from me.

[@yaush_]

Do you own a car? How often do you walk to that bus stop? Would your property value have gone up if the bus stop was closer?

[@Quasimodo-mq8tw]

@@yaush_ More or less once a month i use the Bus Stop. Most of the Time i take the bike everywhere. Not really feasible in the Winter sadly. Then i often walk everywhere because walking back and forth to the stops and waiting for the bus takes longer then to walk between the town centers. Property Value? Probably. I dont intend to sell so i dont really care.

[@Nadia1989]

Except is not the same distance for an able bodied person, a disabled person, someone carrying a child or the groceries trolley.

[@Quasimodo-mq8tw]

@@Nadia1989 Well, my appartment house is mostly old or disabeld people. Most get their food from a delievery service. And use cars or electric trollies. Seriously the distances sound very short to me compared to what we are use to here(Swabia).

[@namenamename390]

Only blocking one side of the road to work on at a time and using a traffic light to allow travel in both directions is something that also happens in Germany. In fact, one such traffic light is currently operating down the street from my place. Not sure why it's not done in your village.

[@leDespicable]

They implement those when only parts of the road need resurfacing, my guess is that the village road in this case needs to be completely redone, including the ground underneath it. You can't do that while still leaving one lane open

[@sdrtcacgnrjrc]

​@@leDespicable can be done in other countries (e.g. UK, Ireland). There'd be a riot in Ireland if they closed the whole road...

[@N0d4chi]

@@sdrtcacgnrjrc It could be done. But revised regulation for construction work to increase vehicle safety and worker safety increased safety margins in the RSA21 and ASR 1.8. Meaning that most single lane roads in germany cannot be worked on with one half being open.

[@leDespicable]

Not to mention that people are gonna bitch and moan either way, might as well close it completely and finish it quicker than having a half-usable road for much longer

[@COPKALA]

near where I live (some 2k away) they have have just closed a piece of a street (both directions), but they also do it half/half...

[@jojojojo4332]

hi, in the netherlands its done both the german and the english way, but the dutch make it so that the "illegal" crossing is a temporary acceptable route if neccesary.

[@sheeple04]

I mean, in Germany its done both ways also, im sure in the UK also its done both ways. It depends how much work is needed Here in NL they do give good bypass routes usually indeed

[@Heimbasteln]

I just remembered one time i visited the Netherlands from Germany and to get to a capsite they had this elaborate and quite adventurous diversion, I would have never thought that it was the right way if there wasnt someone driving in front of me, it was pretty awesome.

[@HotelPapa100]

Two remarks: 1. I remember your valley as quite cycleable. At least in fair weather that's an alternative. 2. Why the heck don't they make an exception for the route closed for motor traffic for this time, at least for public services?

[@geolykt]

To the second question: The route is probably far too narrow and would only accept one-way traffic if anything and would probably not support busses anyways. Plus if that route is to be opened as an exception, it would quickly and severely degrade in quality as it probably was not built for the workload it'd be given. And thirdly exceptions generally only go into the realm of being more restrictive - not less. Think of the wildlife!

[@N0d4chi]

A bus can be redirected, while that costs money and is a nuisance its not such a big deal overall. Construction sites in areas with little road access otherwise require the construction site to be drivable by emergerncy vehicles only.

[@ilvittore2544]

@@geolykt that one path he showed is allowed to be used by agricultural vehicles. if it can support a tractor it can most likely support a bus. the one way traffic problem still remains and i believe, that if they allowed buses to take that route, every single local would use it as well. this would make the one way traffic problem even worse. it most definetly is to narrow for a normal 12m bus.

[@geolykt]

​@@ilvittore2544 When referring to not supporting busses I was more referring to the fact that it might veer off into the forest as is often the case for these small roads primarily used for agriculture and forestry. Of course, if only busses would drive the deterioration aspect wouldn't be much worse than if tractors were allowed so assuming it's paved in the entirety it might not actually be that bad (low-hanging trees *can* be cut aside in most cases - although it really depends on how much you're willing to achieve the goal here).

[@annabelholland]

This is why road closures involving a bus route should be carefully planned than one without cause otherwise, it leaves some of the bus stops not serving any and can cause passengers to walk longer and may preclude them, especially those who rely on public transport. Road closures can benefit workers for increased safety and can get the work done quicker, but should consider other options fist that don't involve a full closure. A bridge demolition is pretty much impossible to keep the road open. Closure of a railway is planned at least a month in advance so that passengers have the option to avoid riding on buses with a train ticket (rail replacement bus). Network Rail do it as much as 12 months in advance. I generally avoid travelling on weekends for this reason.

[@FlorianBaumann]

Welcome to the club. Our village has been shut off for about 2 years know and still is. Search the newspapers, especially FNP of TZ, for Ruppertshain Baustelle. Construction should be finished in September according two inital planning but they are at least 12 months behind. In parallel, the most important detour through the Lorsbachtal was also closed for more than 6 months. Greetings from the Taunus mountains.

[@COPKALA]

I understand that 1 km in a small village may mean that you walk to the next village.... But I live in Hamburg and my flat is between 2 bus stops and I have to walk 700 m before I get to the nearest bus stop....

[@chriswade7470]

Total closure of roads happens in the U.K. too. We had a recent gas min replacement and our road ( which is a main and and bus route road) was closed for 3 weeks, our bus was diverted over an alternative route which came nowhere near where I live) and involved a major hike to the nearest functional stop. I’m disabled and walking to the alternative bus stop was difficult, in fact almost impossible, for me. Shortly after my late partner and I moved here, there was a major fire in a disused and vacant building about a half mile from where we live, and the road was closed and buses diverted, for 4 months.

[@lukasrentz3238]

I've learnt by now, that even though the construction is planned for Months or years, the go sometimes gets announced very suddenly. A while ago the street to the Neighbouring Village was closed as well. From Center to Center, its usually 3.8km. The shortest possible detour was 11.5km. The official ones was 22.8km. We drove through the fields if we had to reach the neighbouring Village.

[@Kordanor]

I am living right at the German border, but on the french side (near Kalrsruhe). The crossroad and the whole road on the German side is completely closed for traffic (not for pedestrians). But the German side still has buses! In my hometown (french side) they just cut all buses (besides a school bus) like 1-2 years ago. Now got to walk a kilometer to the trainstation. And that train doesn't even go like hourly, neither does it hold at all towns on the french side. But getting to Strasbourg (60m) is still faster than getting into the neighbouring village (6km), because...yeah...you got to walk. Sometimes you are wondering how anything is supposed to get greener, if the state just assumes everyone has and will use a car. Oh, btw, need to get rid of an old cupboard? Yeah, got to put it on a handcard and drag it 2km east. Nobody is going to collect it, because, sure...you are supposed to have a car and a trailer for that as well. So...look at it from the bright side: You got a bus which needs to take a detour. Better than having no bus to begin with ^^

[@NicolaW72]

Welcome to Germany - and Good Luck for catching the Bus and the Train! - I can really feel with you, I made similar Experiences more than one time.

[@meinacco]

Bei mir vor dem Haus wird gerade eine zweispurige Hauptstraße komplett rund-erneuert (komplette Breite + Fußwege und bis 4 Meter Tiefe). Dabei werden auch Gas, Wasser, Abwasser, Strom, Netz etc. ersetzt. Wird ungefähr mehr als ein Jahr dauern. Ich lebe in täglicher Angst vor einem Komplettausfall von allen wichtigen Einrichtungen.

[@Dante1282]

Here too, We bascily only have two exits left that both lead to the same bigger Road. One Road is closed off for renovation of bridges and leads towards the next bigger city the other is closed since years to the earth sinkage and last was closed due falling debry from a old railways bridge.

[@johnbu11]

I mean in the UK you wouldn’t have to worry about such things since the local council doesn’t have any money for road repairs in the first place….

[@kritzefitz8972]

About a year ago, the road to my village in Germany was planned to undergo construction. The original plan was to close the road completely. The problem would have been that that road is literally the only legal option to reach our village by motor vehicle, the only path is only open to pedestrians and specific maintenance personnel. The official solution to how we'd get to in and out of the village was to park our cars in front of the construction site outside the village and then walk about 3km (in the worst cases) to get to it. I think questions like “how will emergency services be able to reach us” ultimately shut this plan down and an alternative solution where at least one path to the village would always be usable was found, but I'm still wondering how anyone involved in the planning of this was seeing that an entire village was being cut off, but was still thinking “yup, that's ho we're gonna do this”.

[@Wolf-ln1ml]

I'm more and more in favour of only alowing people to make such plans/decisions who are directly affected themselves. So only someone living in such a village would have the authority to make (or at least sign off) such plans. So many construction sites are *_so_* badly planned, and far too many are planned "on their own", without any regard for _other_ construction sites that hinder or even block off alternative routes...

[@Macintoshiba]

was the van at 0:40 waving you off? First Lichthupe, then the driver wags his finger, and then he waves you to the side...

[@DanielLamando]

good catch, do you think that's for video recording or for standing too close?

[@wonderb0lt]

@@DanielLamando The gesture seemed more like "ah ah ah, don't film me" to me. Or maybe about recording in general. From the angle (you can see a bit of grass already on the shot and I'm certain it's zoomed in) it looks like he's filming from a safe distance

[@Macintoshiba]

@@DanielLamando Id assume standing too close (even if not)

[@Matt_The_Hugenot]

In my part of rural England a resurfacing is the best we ever get. Most of the roads are single track too, do closing half of them isn't an option.

[@JamSparing]

It says 'MOTOR vehicles prohibited' on that one sign. Why not take the bike to the bus?

[@yaush_]

That road is just a small path that runs directly to the bigger town with the train station. If you biked that route you would just be biking to the big town and never take the bus.

[@galdavonalgerri2101]

No, I am sorry to tell you that your interpretation is wrong. Actually that sign (sign 250) means "Prohibition for all types of vehicles". This clearly includes non-motorized vehicles. Wikipedia expresses it this way: "Sign 250 - No vehicles of any kind permitted" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_signs_in_Germany I am used to cyclists thinking that the signs and traffic lights do not apply to them

[@yaush_]

@@galdavonalgerri2101 actually I am sorry to tell you but you are thinking of the wrong road. We are taking about the agricultural road discussed later in the video 🙂

[@JamSparing]

@@galdavonalgerri2101 Well, he said in the video that it applies to 'motorized' vehicles. It's not my fault if he made the mistake first.

[@galdavonalgerri2101]

@@yaush_ okay, you talk about 3:09 You are right, that is a sign used to close the road for motor verhicles. Anyway, I believe most cyclists don't know or don't care about the sign at 1:06

[@motioninmind6015]

Sounds like our area outside of Kulmbach. The biggest problem, and maybe something you can look into, is that they start these huge projects knowing FULL WELL that they don't have the human or materials resources to finish in a reasonable time. These Baustellen will be dormant for half the time they exist.

[@AkahigeNoAmo]

one lane construction with lights is quite common, or allowing traffic in 1 direction while diverting only the other direction also can happen (though, quite rarely)

[@HotelPapa100]

Not really feasible if you want to renew the complete sub-structure

[@AkahigeNoAmo]

@@HotelPapa100 I know, but that doesn't happen regularly or rather that often, though close to my town, they actually have a 1km stretch of Bundestraße closed off completely because there is a tiny bridge that needs maintenance (so tiny in fact, I, and probably most others, wasn't even really aware it was there without conciously thinking about it, thinking about the creek that HAS to pass the road there )

[@Beam_of_Love]

I have long had a suspicion what village exactly you lived in, but that map very much confirmed it. Hello from the other side of the Kahlgrund 🙂

[@isaacbobjork7053]

Where I live in Sweden they just close roads or dig a hole and put fences around without warning and just leaves it for a couple of months, and the actual work takes like a couple of days up to a week. In my area we have a couple of holes in the street, with fences around that has bern there for like a year...

[@motioninmind6015]

Another infuriating aspect to all the roadworks is that they put up the road closed signage when they start, and leave it there till the last minute. However, these areas are often drivable at times when work isn't actively taking place. So, evenings, nights, early mornings and entire WEEKENDS, the road will be senselessly closed, because these firms are too lazy to move their signage and the useless local town administrators don't care.

[@TheEulerID]

I was a bit surprised that the fibre communications links had been installed in such a way that even a major renewal of the road, even including its foundation levels, required the optical fibres to be It does happen in the UK too, but it's bridges that are normally the problem. Utility services tend to embedded in, or are attached to bridges, and if that's the case, then if there is major work, or a bridge replacement, it can be a huge problem (as is currently happening in Oxford on the bridge under the railway by the station - that has now been closed for well over a year, and it could be two years before it's completed).

[@danielkarner7118]

tbh 1km to the next bus stop does not sound so bad, 10 mins walk is doable

[@MATT-2033]

Providing a person has okay weather.

[@martinc.720]

@@MATT-2033 August-September. A bit of water won't hurt too much.

[@joerivanlier1180]

In the Netherlands, the German roads are known for... "immer baustelle" .

[@Wolf-ln1ml]

Well, for the father of a friend of mine, Dutch people were known as "die Gesloten" (due to whenever he visited on Saturdays, everything was "gesloten") 🤣

[@maxe.6260]

Funny enough the same is happening right now in a village I used to live in. They closed a route, which connects to villages together, normally it takes 3 minutes to get from one to the other. With the road closed you have to take a route which is 20 minutes! And yes there is also an illegal route, same signs as in your video. There are only like 500m of one way lane but they could have, if they'd wanted to, like you said place a traffic light there and it would take maybe 5 minutes. I know because I've tried 😂. And if that isn't enough the village has 2 more roads closed to get in and out of it due to construction work. They all started at the same time, actually at the beginning of the summer vacation there in Baden-Württemberg. Makes sense, because a lot of parents are on vacation as well and therefore don't have to commute at that time. But still, in my opinion it's extremely unfair to everybody who isn't part of that group. Also because there would have been an alternative route which they could have added.

[@Scoti17]

Ich habe einen Arbeitskollegen, da wurde die Landstraße gesperrt. Da wollte er über Frankreich (grenze direkt am ort) fahren. Die franzosen haben dann die Straße auch holl gesperrt. Ergebnis waren 30-40min Umweg

[@feynstein1004]

RIP 😣 Das konnte nur NRW gewesen sein. Aachen vielleicht?

[@DBDeka]

I know all to well about road closures in Germany, I deliver packages and the most recent roadworks in have to deal with is the main road in Mühlacker, townhall closed their 2 entrences so now I can't deliver their packages, like what are you guys thinking? I called them to tell them I have packages for them, guess what, told me to wait, they'll transfer me to someone who can tell me what to do, where to go, when transfered, straight to voicemail, guess who didn't got their packages!

[@Wolf-ln1ml]

I'm a truck driver, and while I usually don't _have to_ drive to our company's location (we get to take the trucks home on weekends), we are expected to fuel up as much there as we possibly can. It's also usually a good in-between stopping point for a few tours. There are three ways to get there - normally. Now, two of those roads are closed off, so the only access is via that one remaining road, which means a ~15 minute detour both ways (so getting there to just fuel up means a 30 minute detour)...

[@edspace.]

Hope things get sorted out soon.

[@jossanin]

just be thankful this wasn't done in the winter

[@alondro666]

There was a change in safety-distances for streetworkers to traffic some years ago.Until then the roads were mainly rebuilt side-by-side. With the greater safety-distance this can now only be done on bigger/wider roads. So what you mean is not how it's done in Englang or Germany but more how it was done now and then.

[@aro8570]

What I have learnt is, that if the road is shut down completely. They are faster and can do a better job. Because it is Don better, the road needs less maintenance. So in the future less problems too. Probably this makes it cheaper too and saver to work.

[@mihiguy]

I do not think I live in a rural area (it is a small city), yet the nearest bus stop (as well as the train station) is about 2.5 km away from my home. Seems manageable for me going there by bike.

[@DanielsPolitics1]

Why can’t the authority that has chosen to do a complete closure fund a temporary minibus service for those who are now cutoff from public transport?

[@no-damn-alias]

money

[@tomasmalchus8689]

Because only one bus stop is cut off, and it takes 15 minutes to walk to the next one. It's really not as tragic as it sounds like.

[@ellenorbjornsdottir1166]

@@tomasmalchus8689 Not that tragic, if your legs can afford it. COVID happened and is still happening and like 5% of people now can't walk, not because they don't have working legs but because their bodies fall to piece if they try.

[@no-damn-alias]

That's why I'm happy to life in southern Bavaria. Road constructions is usually done very fast here. Either over night or larger sections over the course of a weekend.

[@mats7492]

At least you have fibre cable.. i live in the middle of a german city and we still have copper..

[@placeholdername0000]

So how much money is being handed over to Starlink every month from disgruntled Germans?

[@xaverlustig3581]

Why is that a problem?

[@johaquila]

@@placeholdername0000 Probably very nearly none. Internet flat rates are available in Germany starting at approximately 20 Euros ($ 22) /month. (As far as I know these are true flat rates with basically no limitations other than how much you can upload/download at the speed you actually have, which may be limited by your neighbours' activities due to the shared uplink.) For that price you get at least something like 10 Mbit/s. If you are prepared to pay a little more, you get significantly higher speeds. The cheapest Starlink offer at $ 120 / month is far more expensive than anything anyone would reasonably pay in Germany for domestic Internet, and significantly slower.

[@yaush_]

@@xaverlustig3581German internet is surprisingly bad

[@yaush_]

@@placeholdername0000no most people just use cable. It’s slower than other countries perhaps but it’s still completely usable

[@CGX106]

It is good to know that this approach is apparently used throughout Germany (I live in the northwest). At the same time unsettling, but also somehow reassuring.

[@PascalGienger]

In the US they mostly do this half closing as well and the result is always terrible. One lane looks other than the other, there is a "blip" between older and newer half, they're not perfectly aligned etc.

[@eltfell]

Well, Rewboss, the time has come: You have to make a driving licence.

[@Danny30011980]

Seems to be a thing at the moment to re-do roads. In my hometown there are lots of diversions and detours aswell at the moment. No idea why they have to do several roads all at once, opposed to one after another to keep chaos at least a bit at bay. Before that all the pavements were ripped open to put fast internet cables in, the holes were only covered with partially coarse gravel, which made walking a pain in the back, esp. for people with a walking frame , older peeps or even just walking around. Loose gravel all over the pavements, on which you could step and twist your ankle easily. happened to me few times. Most of them holes are fixed up now, but there is still a few spots where they haven't completely put the street cover on top, so there are still square sputs where the surface is a bit lower than the street, which can also lead to accidents (also almost happened to me on my bike).

[@CyclingSteve]

Perhaps they should put in a cycling and walking path alongside this time.

[@mickimicki]

Just hope no protected structure is found underneath the asphalt, like what happened to the Hessian village Runzhausen. They ended up being cut off for much longer than initially planned…

[@officialmcdeath]

openstreetmap gang \m/

[@PauxloE]

→ There's a bike path - can't you use that one to go to the next village? (Of course, not everyone has a bike, or is able to use it.) → There are also plenty of cases where a road is half-closed for construction works. I guess in your case it would make the whole reconstruction a lot more expensive, and/or get a worse quality road out of it, due to the ground work redoing. → I agree about the short notice.

[@ddd543]

In Neuhütten they will close the village road for construction for around 3.5 YEARS!

[@aenorist2431]

Yea no, if its at all possible we close single lanes too. The works at your road simply do not allow for that, probably foundation work.

[@NZHazard]

Rewboss, while i sympathies with your situation, I live in Whangarei, New Zealand where we had our road to Auckland restored recently due to the major slips, which since early 2023 (storms and floods) have cut of off almost 5 times, and had to use bypasses which were badly damaged from the floods and from the amount of traffic volumes which they were not redesigned for. Its almost become a running joke that very time it rains heavily, the main road & rail line will be cut to Auckland. At least not as bad as the Road between Kaihoke & Kaitaia, (north of Whangarei) where after the road was re-built over a year, it slipped again after 6 weeks and its almost 3 years since it slipped for a second time and its supposed to have re-opened by July this year. At least your road crews complete things in an efficient manner?? If NZ had German efficiency, maybe we wouldn't need to redo roads every few months when a large storm hits the region.

[@ricktownend9144]

Fascinating! - 'the bus has to be retimed to meet the trains and other buses' - you are lucky not to live in England, where connecting - or even bus and train managers talking to one another - is absolutely VERBOTEN!

[@feynstein1004]

Dude, you already live in a village. Just use your car. Also, as someone who works in road construction, I find it funny that you're complaining about 2 weeks' notice. Usually we only give out the notice like a couple days in advance 😂 Although, that's only for the asphalt works. I guess if you're doing Kanalbau, you'd be disrupting a lot of stuff and the residents would need a bit more notice. Man, distributing the Anliegerinfo is quite an experience, especially when there are menacing dogs just roaming around freely 😅

[@christians3441]

My german town has one main road through the town and then a side road leading to another town and back around the town and earlier this year the local government closed one side of the main road for construction of a building and at the same time the state government closed the other side of the main road for bridge repair so all traffic in and out had to go through the one side road. So that was fun but I guess at least they didn't cut our internet connection.

[@tortenschachtel9498]

2.5 months? Pff, the road between here and a neighboring village has been closed for over a year now. Could be two years, i can't even remember anymore ...

[@martinc.720]

It’s not because two years is inconvenient that two months isn’t.

[@tortenschachtel9498]

@@martinc.720 What i am trying to say is that two months is really fast.

[@martinc.720]

@@tortenschachtel9498 Not what you said at all.

[@MATT-2033]

6 years ago the primary road in my town finally got work done and it was probably the best work the road construction workers ever did. Problem poor communication between Road construction and Water/waste water service. 2 months afternoon finishing the road work the road was tore up to replace old water and sewer pipes. The road looks worse then ever to this day.

[@Wolf-ln1ml]

Someone once explained the reason for the closing up and then tearing a street back open a bit later - it's because the first company is obligated to leave the construction site finished, no matter what. If they left something open for the second company's work, and *_anything_* went wrong because of that, that first company would be fully liable... So it's not the actual planning or communication, it's our stupid bureaucracy with it's "we got to do everything proper" instead of "let's see where we can save some time and convenience people the least"...

[@MATT-2033]

@@Wolf-ln1ml that makes sense. But if there better communication they would have replaced the water/sewer pipes first then paved the road. Bureaucracy.

[@Wolf-ln1ml]

@@MATT-2033 _"they would have replaced the water/sewer pipes first then paved the road."_ No, that's the point - the company that replaced the pipes would _also_ have had to leave the road fully closed up and paved again. The contracts (and the legal requirements for the contracts) don't allow any kind of overlap (in the sense of one company not doing something that the next company has to undo again). It's all standard contract clauses and making sure one can't be sued if anything goes wrong.

[@MATT-2033]

@@Wolf-ln1ml result people get the worst conditioned road in town.

[@martinaltmann4031]

If you really have to redo the road, road bed and all, you will have to close the whole road, and that will also apply to the UK. For lesser work, one also has semi closed roads over here in Germany.

[@helloweener2007]

It is not how it is done in Germany. We had roads done partly closed and also full closed here. It might depend on the kind of work.

[@baritonfelix]

We have a number of road renewals and similar work going on in my city right now. Many of these projects last for 2-3 years. It's always on the tip of my tongue to say it would surely be quicker in China. But then I still prefer living here.

[@Pyrazahn]

Whenever I hear about a road repair taking months or even years to complete, I have to think back to that one time about 15 years ago where they managed to completely repave a ~600m road within two days - one side per day repaved and the other open for traffic.

[@HotelPapa100]

That's paving, not renewing the road. A road is quite a bit more than the tarmac on top.

[@embreis2257]

is going grocery shopping in the next village not done better via bicycle than hopping on the bus after walking for a kilometre?

[@nlpnt]

That road doesn't look that bad to me. And I'm just as far from the bus stop as normal, the bus runs on a 45-minute headway *in peak hours* and not at all on Sundays.

[@notimportant5904]

Might be a good time to invest in a folding bike - Brompton makes nice ones. Getting to the Bahnhof in Schöllkrippen takes only 9 minutes by bike and a folding bike is always allowed on trains and busses as they are considered as luggage not as bikes. The route itself has smooth tarmac, and no cars, so quite nice actually.

[@barvdw]

There are also some German brands making folding bikes, I'm looking into a Bernds myself (it's the only bike I've found that advertises a maximum load of 140 kg...), but there are others, Riese & Müller's Birdy comes to mind, so for those wanting to support German manufacturing (and avoid the customs fees levied on the London-based Bromptons...), there are alternatives.

[@tobiwan001]

3:45 That's not how it's done in Germany. In almost all cases they just close off one side of the road. But maybe in this case it was not possible for some reason. E.g. the sections would have been too big, would have taken too long or the kind of work does not allow it. The road you have shown looks particularly bad, so this might have been a reason. Athough Germany - at least for railways - have started to prefer full closures and quick repairs recently. Especially for railways they will make full closures for the next 5-10 years because the backlog of repairs due to underinvestment between 1995 and 2015 is so big, we will just have to live with more closures for the next few years to allow us to come back to a normal level.

[@martinc.720]

Temporary business opportunity: A rest stop somewhere along the "nearly one kilometre" journey, complete with a food stand, WC, a few beds, chairs, a doctor's office to make sure adventurers are fit to continue...

[@Psychphuq]

Oh no! A whole kilometer to a bus stop, how painfull... 🙃

[@parallax_review]

4:07 Wait, you guys have plumbers?

[@Wildcard71]

Did you think there are robots?

[@ellenorbjornsdottir1166]

Do you have a bicycle, so that you might reach the 1km-away bus stop?

[@fariesz6786]

what about unladen swallows though?

[@oldbadgui3351]

You got 2 or 3 weeks notice? Must be nice.

[@HalfEye79]

While at work once the power went of, because somebody ran a drill through the cable. Well, early end of work. Paid!

[@der7tezwerg921]

1km to the Bus. That's horrible!

[@Wildcard71]

If you are used to walk, that's nothing.

[@martinc.720]

@@Wildcard71 They're moking the "nearly one kilometre" remark

[@michaelz.7140]

0:43 thats a cute bus...

[@wissenistmacht8930]

The Deutsche bahn cut the internet of my village for days

[@2712animefreak]

I don't see why the bus can't just dip down to your stop and then go back up. According to the map you've shown, just before your stop there is a small side street that the bus could reverse into to turn around.

[@alexjenkins1079]

Guessing there's nowhere where it can turn around (probably too long, especially if it's 40-45 feet long)

[@DanielsPolitics1]

If there is a replacement road which they could allow you to use, why don’t they temporarily lift the ban?

[@leDespicable]

Restrictions on roads are usually there for a reason. The road looks very narrow, it'd probably not be suitable to take all the traffic

[@DanielsPolitics1]

@@leDespicable In the UK, many are “environmental” not structural. Perhaps Germany is more sensible.

[@leDespicable]

My guess is also that this is a small road that leads to several remote farms and houses, the people living there most likely wouldn't appreciate their access road becoming a busy throughfare

[@DanielsPolitics1]

@@leDespicable And yet it appears to be a public road, for the public.

[@truckerallikatuk]

To shreds you say? Shattered fibres you say?

[@Pebbe496]

Yeah, I don't get what the problem is. 1km to the bus stop is 12 Minutes, that's not unusual. Also, you can bike to the train station in probably 12mIn as well, using the agricultural path. Yes, it's not convenient, but it's temporary.

[@poppypeppa0186]

You are in a very rural area but have fiber and you’re complaining it’s cut off for a short while? I used to live just across a river from the capital of germanys most densely populated state but they still didn’t install fiber optic in that street…

[@kessas.489]

Kurz: Da hat mal wieder jemand nicht nachgedacht! 😵‍💫

[@soundscape26]

You featured yourself walking a lot in your past videos so it's strange to hear you suggesting walking "nearly a km" is too much. We're talking about 10-12 minutes depending on the pace. Either way, why not get a bike for these kinds of situations? Or even to use it regularly, your village looks great for some recreational biking.

[@KokkiePiet]

Germany is terrible at roadworks. I am from the Netherlands, there its very very different. Extra lane on a very busy "Autobahn" for about 15 Kilometers? Couple of months with minor impact to traffic. It's a rip-off,

[@alexanderkupke920]

THis was known at least months in advance... Are you serious, the way such construction is planned I would expect planning starting somewhere between 2 to 5 years in advance.

[@glx1987]

I think its faster to use a bike for 2.8 km to Schöllkippen then to walk 1 km and then take a bus for a 6.5 km ride.

[@Faraonqa]

As a lkw driver in Germany i can safely tell you, If the alternative is more than 2 km longer , that fahr verbot sign means jack shit to us😂😂 ain't no body got time for that,so don't worry

[@GUFSZ]

As a German cyclist I was very puzzled in the UK, because "Road closed" means the Road is closed. In Germany it means normally, it is closed for cars. Pedestrians and cyclist still have a chance to come through. Not in the UK. I have seen more full closed streets in the UK in 9 weeks cycling than I have ever seen in Germany. In my personal opinion, the valley of the Kahl is only rural, not a very rural area. Bad luck with the police. Your area is Bavaria, not Hesse.

[@rewboss]

No, the road is closed for all vehicles, including bicycles. That's what the sign means: _all_ vehicles prohibited.

[@phosphoros60]

Maybe that's just me living in a city, but walking a kilometre doesn't sound too bad. It's really bad for elderly or disabled people, of course, but I'd hope there's alternatives to busses for them anyway, right?

[@martinc.720]

Like an "Old-Folks-Bus"? Never heard of that.

[@JaffaJannu]

To be completely honest half closing roads is work of the Devil. I'd personally prefer completely closing of small sections of rural roads with clear marking for alternate routes.

[@denizk0461]

perhaps that's just my perspective of being German, but... that sounds nothing out of the ordinary. The internet issue is annoying of course, I agree there, but a kilometre to walk to a bus stop in a "very rural area" is nothing, honestly, and why would trucks and delivery services not be able to handle a small diversion? It's just a simple road closure.

[@rewboss]

It's not a small diversion, though. For any vehicle over 3.5 tonnes maximum laden weight -- that's a medium-sized Ford Transit -- the diversion is almost 20 km long, to cover a distance of about 3 km.

[@clemensmuller2543]

In this video Rewboss sounds so ... German!

[@electronbeam]

Having to walk 1km is hardly far.

[@sandralison7584]

And the government wonders, why people in germany don't want to live in rual areas.

[@TransportGeekery]

You can guarantee that the German method will result in a better build quality

[@rewboss]

That's the theory. In practice, there are so many major construction works all happening at the same time that there is an ever-changing labyrinth of road closures and diversions. The other day we went to dinner with some relatives (who live less than 10 km away) and ran a couple of errands along the way, and had to carefully plan our route past three separate road closures.

[@memberberry5898]

1:23 this exaggerated (read: actually pronounced) 'american-style' R really threw me off guard, please, warn us next time

[@alexjenkins1079]

Sounds like a remnant of the old rhotic R that used to be really prevalent in the South West of England (it's a stereotype of that area that that's how people speak there, especially in Devon and Somerset)

[@martinc.720]

Blanket advance warning, valid for every channel: Not everyone pronounces everything the exact same way.

[@rewboss]

It's my English Westcountry accent. It's not often particularly noticeable, but here I was emphasizing "are" because "[long list of nouns] ah" tends to throw.people.

[@HansBezemer]

Germany - the art of over-organizing everything in such a way, that even the most trivial thing ends up being as complex as your average sudoku.

[@galdersrontgorrth]

rule of thumb is you should walk 5000 steps a day. one kilometer isn't that big of a deal unless you're disabled.

[@martinc.720]

I am disabled, and I laughed when I heard "nearly a kilometre". For two months? That's all??

[@galdersrontgorrth]

@@martinc.720 i walk that distance just to go shopping or something. but sadly things are changing. cause i've seen more and more ppl that take the car for very short distances.

[@martinc.720]

@@galdersrontgorrth That doesn't have anything to do with "disability", which was your first point.

[@galdersrontgorrth]

@@martinc.720 the main point was that ppl should walk the 5k steps which is well over 1 kilometer no matter how short you are.

[@martinc.720]

@@galdersrontgorrth What does “height” have to do with anything discussed here? You’re just trolling now.

[@Tenajeh]

"I now have to walk nearly a kilometer to the nearest bus stop" - Dude, if you have a disablement that impedes how you can walk, that sucks. Otherwise, that's no distance at all. That's significantly less than what I used to walk to the nearest train station (1.2km) and less than half of what I walk to my current workplace (2km). And hiking boots for this walk? I know this was probably hyperbole. But 🙄 I usually like your videos. But this one was just like old man yelling at cloud.

[@Nils.Minimalist]

That's the price you have to pay if you live in a very rural bavarian area 😄

[@FlorianBaumann]

Yeah, they manage to repair the road in 2 months what takes more than 2 years in a not so rural area in Hesse.

[@andreasepp7340]

Na ja, das ist nicht ganz fair. Nicht überall in Deutschland läuft das so! Du wohnst nun mal in Franken... und man soll Gott für alles danken.... Nee, aber ernsthaft. Es gibt manchmal Gründe, warum eine Straße nicht teilweise gesperrt werden kann, manchmal ist aber der betreffende Sachbearbeiter einfach nur unfähig. Das gibt's aber überall, selbst in Monarchien! 😜

[@kusiciel]

will you be compensated for the loss of your internet?

[@martinc.720]

Or for the nearly 1-km expedition to the bus station?

[@Pantomas-PG]

Hinweis: Anhand der Informationen aus dem Video weiß man jetzt ziemlich genau, wo du wohnst.

[@rewboss]

Hinweis: Das war nie ein großes Geheimnis.

[@AyCe]

Hinweis: Das Rauchen am Bahnsteig ist nur in den gekennzeichneten Bahnsteigbereichen gestattet. 🚭

[@ZarexianMapper]

Hinweis: Ich biete die Shetland Islands zum Verkauf an. Für 10.000 Euro oder 5.000.000 Britische Pfund bin ich bereit die Inseln zu verkaufen.

[@abgekippt]

Und dass er mit seinem Holztransporter ins Nachbardorf fährt um Behördengänge zu machen.

[@Perisemiotics]

a 1 km walk is nothing...

[@MATT-2033]

If it isn't raining.

[@Perisemiotics]

@@MATT-2033 a good umbrella will withstand the strongest rain - me personally, I prefer to walk free and "fresh."

[@martinc.720]

@@MATT-2033 I don't think they get monsoon rains in Germany. People can deal with a bit of water.