Modern roads are better than Roman roads, this is why!

[@zippity010]

19:02 the Dog brand is a play on the company “Caterpillar,” stylized as “CAT” in their logos, one of the largest construction equipment companies.

[@tomrgaming5984]

Yea annoyed he didn't get that one :P

[@user-tf5pj6fl8w]

really surprised Matt didn't catch that one

[@Schedelke]

He even mentions Catterpillar machines in the video and doesnt realise they all say CAT on the side.. And this man has an engineering degree!

[@schwig44]

@@Schedelke that's what the inspectors are for ;)

[@cassandradawn780]

dogerpillar

[@ashamar]

Nothing better than listening to smart people talk about their chosen profession. Seriously, this is probably my favorite game on the channel right now simply because Matt geeks out on road works. And that is a wonderful thing.

[@sandropenner5351]

Very true, I love this series and would love to see other simulation games played as well

[@ReneSchickbauer]

I also love how he calmly explains safety barriers while causing a huge traffic jam.

[@krabby8216]

I learn more here at home watching RCE then at school lol 😆

[@dirk2695]

Couldn't agree more.

[@ehojon]

The funniest thing is he sure is smart but dont know left or right every start of the job haha

[@funkejosh4850]

Hey Matt since this game has you driving around on german roads and you dont seem to know some of these signs let me help you a bit: The Black/White Markers on the side of the road are Meter Markers. You have them all over roads when you are outside of a city or on the Autobahn. These Posts are there to sort of guide you on the road when you have reduced visibility because of fog/rain/snow/etc. They have white reflective strips on them to better see them at night. They also indicate a road crossing your way with orange reflectors. Mostly seen in woods where streets usually are just dirt paths going onto the main road. They can also indicate a path where forest animals cross the road with blue/red reflectors (but there is usually a sign with a deer telling you that like the one at 9:30 ) 8:16 min This sign indicates a main road where you have the right of way. Crossing streets have a corresponding yield sign. 8:33 min This sign removes all traffic restrictions and speed limits. On german roads outside of towns you are allowed to go up to 100km/h if no speed limit is in place. If this sign has a car or truck in the middle (like the one at 9:10 but this STARTS the restriction) this also removes the overtake restrictions. Usually if the sign is crossed out or mostly white it removes the sign that started it. 10:49 min This sign indicates a motorway or as we call it the Autobahn. 11:14 min This sign removes the overtaking restrictions for vehicles heavier than 3,5t Useful because some truck drivers may switch lanes to overtake other trucks because they are going .1 km/h too slow and now they start a race up the hill where the one truck is driving 80km/h and the other one is 79km/h.

[@jaronics]

The sign at 10:50 doesn't indicate an Autobahn. It marks the beginning of a ,,Kraftfahrstraße." A Kraftfahrstrasse (German for "motor-power road", also colloquially called Schnellstraße, literally "fast road") in Germany is any road with access limited to motor vehicles with a maximum design speed of more than 60 km/h (37 mph), excluding pedestrian, bicycle, moped or tractor traffic. Oversized vehicles are banned. The construction of transregional Kraftfahrstraßen highways (Autostraßen) rank below the standard of German autobahns. With regard to the general German speed limits, on roads with lanes separated by a median or with a minimum of two marked lanes per direction, an advisory speed limit (Richtgeschwindigkeit) of 130 km/h (81 mph) applies. At-grade intersections are admissible, regulation at junctions is usually provided by traffic lights or roundabouts. U-turns and any deliberate stopping are prohibited. Kraftfahrstraßen are out of bounds to pedestrians, except for special crosswalks. (wikipedia)

[@tezzanoia]

Addition on the black and white markers: the reflectors on each side look different, to help tell in what side of the road they are. They're always set up so when you drive down the road you see a rectangular reflector on your side and two circular ones above each other on the other side

[@wackyweyland8857]

Very cool, thanks FunkeJosh

[@darrenbudgen966]

nerd

[@Jakeio-w9j]

Similar in Australia we have meter markers white on the right red on the left to show what side your ment to be on, we have that 100km rule outside cities and I think we have the no limit signs in the outback im not sure though

[@rockytopproductionsandgami7745]

The rollers we use in America has two drums instead of one drum and one axle. The roller in game is used to compact dirt.

[@Marco-re1db]

Not only in the USA, In Germany, we actually use those too. The Problem with those wheels from the one ingame would be they would damage and/or get damaged by the hot asphalt. They are indeed only used to compact dirt or some stone roads. Greetings from a german Road Construction Manager :D

[@tekbox7909]

@@Marco-re1db Great then please do tell why the hell theres a road your colleagues still havent finished repairing in 2 or 3 years?

[@Marco-re1db]

@@tekbox7909 Difficult. In Germany, most of the Roads are owned by the State. But they dont have the money to repair it. Its realy expensive

[@tekbox7909]

@@Marco-re1db Yeah but why the hell start cobstruction and never finish it. especially on a much used road without alternatives

[@Marco-re1db]

@@tekbox7909 it is being finished, got an example of what you mean?

[@johannes7856]

Well, in Germany, street signs are mostly stolen by drunks instead of someone stealing them to scrap them. Most of the time (in our area) you can find them lying around somewhere 1-2 kilometres away. Also you can find 180deg turned signs.

[@tekbox7909]

Yeah or like me and my brother you find them in the shed for some reason. I think the shed wasn't used since the house was built and when we decided to take it down we went through the things inside and found some street signs

[@XNawiXx]

theyre invalid if theyre turned 180° though

[@tezzanoia]

Once the Jugendclub ("youth club", honestly an ironic name considering none of them is under the age of 18) of my home town took down the sign at the entrance of it, just to take it to a festival with them. They put it up like 3m high on a pole above their camp for that weekend and then returned it afterwards lmao

[@RobertSzasz]

Don't forget signs of locations with humourous names

[@KeiwaM]

That CGP Grey reference made me happy. Hexagons are the Bestagons.

[@hidingthisaxcount]

It made me so happy lmao

[@-R-E-D-]

HEXAGONS ARE THE BESTAGONS

[@ReneSchickbauer]

Cleaning the guard rails isn't only to make them shiny and nice, it's to clean the reflectors mounted on it. The same or a similar rig is also used to regularly wash the walls of some tunnels. this saves quite a bit of electricity and maintenance cost in the long run, because the clean walls reflect more light, so you need less lamps installed.

[@thenorwegianviking5721]

You should make a series on how things like that work, would be really interesting

[@Jourdainist]

Thank you Matt for actually teaching us something as well. Now whenever i go out i spot all the things you talk about. I saw a concrete flower pot in the parking lot today and it had steel rebar poking through, I got worried and tried to move away quickly before it collapsed

[@matthewtalbot-paine7977]

In the UK road closures generally only happen at night. What!!!!! I wish this was true. They closer my road for an entire year once. Other roads I got to work on are closed for days at a time.

[@tekbox7909]

Yeah we have a road that has been closed for I think 2 or 3 years already for repairs and the only way to get around it in a reasonable amount of time is a small road that is in way worse shape cause it has like only half of the top layer remaining

[@RealCivilEngineerGaming]

Motorways I meant 😅

[@matthewtalbot-paine7977]

@@RealCivilEngineerGaming Ah that makes more sense. Was what you said about signs with Trusses was also just about motorways because it was round poles all the way home and then aptly enough the road I park on was closed

[@RealCivilEngineerGaming]

@@matthewtalbot-paine7977 no, all signs on motorways need a barrier as the speeds are so fast. You'll see those on single carriageway with a faster speed, though I think they're a bit less common these days, now it's just round posts that act the same way but don't look that visually different from a normal post

[@matthewtalbot-paine7977]

@@RealCivilEngineerGaming I feel like I'm learning too much about roadways. Defintely looking for the ramps which shouldn't exist though next time I go to a motorway. I'm a software engineer so I'm not used to real engineering.

[@r0bz0rly]

I know it's been said many times in the comments already, but I just wanna jump on the appreciation for Matt's passion for engineering. It's so damn interesting hearing insights into something we take for granted. There are some brilliant minds behind seemingly simple infrastructure

[@blackmendosa]

I never knew much about civil engineering until two things, playing citites skylines and reading about traffic engineering and such and finding RCE. Always find it interesting hearing about your old job and the reasoning behind stuff. Entertaining and informative. :D

[@Kaktussaft_]

10:51 in germany this car sign is called „entering a Kraftstraße“. „Kraftstraße“ or „Schnellstraße“ (how we also call these) are roads on which only vehicles that can drive at least 60 km/h are allowed. The difference with Autobahns is that Kraftstraßen can include normal crossings. Another difference is that on Kraftstraßen, unless otherwise permitted, cars may drive at most 100 km/h outside a town or village area and 50 km/h within a town or village area.

[@Kwauhn.]

I love hearing "hexagons are the bestagons" from you Matt, a man of culture

[@Fighting_Falc0n]

CPG Grey - Hexagons are the bestagons. Noticed that yea

[@SylviaRustyFae]

15:50 Those railroad ones are called Track Ballast :3 I just watched a cool science vid on them yesterday and learned all about how the rocks are spec chosen to interlock into each other and how they provide a foundation that doesnt move cuz of that; unlike just throwin rocks down.

[@cavalierliberty6838]

The base layer of ballast creates the foundation. Putting little rocks on top of it provides some sound insulation.

[@SylviaRustyFae]

@@cavalierliberty6838 It actually has many more purposes besides just those two as well; the vid i watched mentioned like seven specific benefits of it. Tho i can only recall a third benefit rn; which is that it makes for a smoother ride for any passengers. ETA: doublechecked vid and three of the reasons were related to foundation purposes, the others were to provide easy drainage to keep the tracks dry, prevent vegetation from growin on the tracks, and preventin heat expansion of the tracks; in addition to those stated here

[@SylviaRustyFae]

@@cavalierliberty6838 Also, those rocks above it still have to be spec shaped ones that interlock instd of round or smooth rocks; bcuz otherwise the train passin over them wud cause the smooth/round rocks to roll out of position and thus that top layer wud be less useful.

[@circuitsalsa]

This was one of my favorite series from you in a long while. Your usual content is good, it's just that with topics like these your passion and expertise come out too and it's great to share that joy and learning with you. Thanks for inviting us along!

[@better.better]

here in the United States guardrails don't usually terminate at a point either but instead do have a crushable barrier. there are places where it terminates but has a sort of squared off end cap. usually this is on a divided highway, where they have a break for emergency vehicles to pass through to the other side. I have seen road signs on teenagers bedroom walls before. going to go out on a limb and guess that they **didn't** buy them someplace. most of the road closures on busy roads are done at night when there's less traffic (and even more importantly in the summer: when it's not as hot) this is especially true for road work that's going to take months and months such as resurfacing a bridge which they try to do half at a time. usually they build the new bridge before they tear down the old bridge) even if they have a lane closed they still do the work at night

[@Ger.bogado]

I love when he talks about his former job and spread knowledge to us

[@microsnot1900]

You've got a way of reaching into your inner nerd and educate the masses in engineering, and in the same time playing the game in an entertaining way. This is some top level stuff Matt. I'm 42, programmer, and now I know more about road management. :-)

[@captaindelta43]

Road Maintainance Simulator Developers:- may it be a peaceful sim , to make people understand somewhat how road thingy works . Matt, RCE:- SO IF YOUR CAR IS GONNA CRASH..........

[@nenaroo]

that was like... an amazingly informational and surprisingly fun episode to watch - I learned some stuff!!! definitely one of my absolute favorite gamers to watch.

[@mechanick]

I absolutely love learning about your job as a civil engineer. I'm working on becoming an engineer myself (mechanical, though), and the explanations you give for everything are both super interesting and make total sense 😄

[@MrColdHollow]

I genuinely love that I can come to your channel and enjoy the video and also learn stuff at the same time. Knew nothing about the terminals.

[@FullOfBradells]

Labourer/operator/traffic control coordinator perspective time Matt. Canadian here so some things are just term differences. The signs, they're not reflective, they're retroreflective. This design angles the light a few degrees upward so that you see the sign illuminating instead of the light reuturning to your headlights. Also signs here are made up of 2-4 parts, they're hard circular tubes with many holes to attach to the sign/extension. We call this "forgiving design". Planeing we call milling here, it's not a giant blade here, it's a giant wheel of doom essentially, it removes the asphalt and throws it into nearby trucks to be recycled into more asphalt. The machine you backed up to we call a spreader, some are on gps and the operators are within mm's and working with points of an angle for drainage while making multiple passes for the sake of ease of future repairs. It also pushes the truck in neutral as to not disturb the subbase. That specific type of packer would never be used on asphalt because of the tires they'd leave big grooves. Steam rollers have 2 steam rollers on them to cure the surface and not leave tire marks. Underneath the asphalt is the base, which here is 3/4" limestone watered, compacted (causes chemical reactions which can make it nearly as hard as concrete, had a grader do a burntout on some one and didn't leave a mark other than rubber from it's tires spinning) and tested for density. Underneath that is typically larger rock 2-6" (50-150mm) which are used for drainage to let the water run to catch basins/edges of the road which have french drains in most of them (tube with a bunch of holes drilled into the top edges to collect water and run it along (subset so that only the holes are exposed but also wrapped in river rock and geotextiles)). Underneath that is the subbase which is typically either the large 6" rock on top of geotextile and compacted earth, or some combination of all 3, sometimes it's tested, sometimes it isn't. It's nearly impossible to run the density machine on large rock because of the odds of ending up trying to go inside of a rock, or shifting things to ruin the true compaction. Anyway Matt thanks for showing us the engineers pespective, I always speak with them when given the opportunity on site, and it's nice to share an operator/labourer perspective. (thousands of hours in packers, thousands flagging/traffic control coordinating, hundreds in loaders)

[@LegoDork]

My buddies and I used to knock the signs over with "The Battle Wagon", Haul the thing post and all into the back the back of the '85 Chevy Custom Cruiser, unbolt the sign proper as we drove along, and ditch the pole out the back while moving. We just wanted the signs, no scrapping involved.

[@mrpadi64]

In Germany (in our District (Kreis)) the road planners decided to use concret for roundabouts, which make a lot of sense to prevent deforming by driving only in one direction.

[@afrofanta]

pretty sure the "dog" brand is just a joke on the real brand cat since the logo looks nearly identical

[@sterlingodeaghaidh5086]

I remmember cleaning rub rails a lot when I worked at a gas station, you don't think it matters much but the dirt that collects holds moisture to the surface and can accelerate corrosion.

[@Bai_legend]

Totally accurate engineer👌🏻

[@tgreythorne45]

I'm suddenly able to understand the various points of my travel better now, thanks to you!

[@_deeptanil]

U keep ranting like I'm taking a rce course... You should make a course and totally sell it 😂

[@keyrousse]

I love how educational this series is. Great job sharing your knowledge!

[@joshrenmydublin9261]

Engineers > Architects

[@lordkell1986]

And best about the "asphalt concrete" as it's called, completely recyclable! If it gets a pot hole, the surface can just be dug up and reused because it's just stiff until sufficient heat is supplied.

[@chrisgames5201]

So with placing new asphalt, you also have to place some adhesive before you lay the asphalt, and normally you also use steamrollers with rollers both in the front and back, and at the end, it has to naturally cool down, without anything driving on top of it for 30-60 min (depending on the temperature in the air) before you open the road again

[@gige1194]

Imagine being one of the people in the cars waiting for the road resurfacing, and just watching this construction worker walk back and forth talking to himself and pointing at things.

[@theodoric4270]

I'm glad there is something in this game about stealing street signs. I once lived near a place where there was a mile marker that read, "mile 419.9." This bizarre marker was an attempt to avoid the sign being stolen quite as often. I guess there is a high demand for mile marker 420 for some reason...

[@corysmart8209]

There’s a stop sign for cross traffic on the highway in my area. When highway traffic hits that stop sign (which, mind you, is facing the cross street, so the sign itself is parallel to the highway), it basically axes the car that hits it, often cutting straight through the roof of the car. Crazy but the engineers say everything is the way it’s supposed to be so 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@NFSHeld]

Wow it was really interesting to hear how road designers have considered different approaches and went with the one that can be easily replaced every 10 years. But I think someone should've told the communities, because they are apparently still thinking those roads last for 1000 years, judging by the amount of maintenance that is performed.

[@GammlerTV100]

In Germany there are LED displays above the road. So you don’t usually need traffic management. They will turn on an led thing that tells you to slow down to a certain speed Bacause there’s road work

[@Dragongaga]

That specific sign at 10:50 designates "Autostraße" as opposed to "Autobahn" (highway/motorway), which is a special kind of road that has the same speed limit as a country road, but only allows motor vehicles, like on a highway or motorway. Corrections on a postcard.

[@hovelhomestead737]

If I am not mistaken, when the asphalt planer has a truck in front of it, the truck is put in neutral and the planer pushes it forward as it planes. That may be doable in the game if they can put the truck in neutral in code.

[@anthonydownes2286]

Not sure if you mentioned it but usually a bitumen tanker sprays the planed surface before the Tipper backs onto the paver. Usually a road sweeper present as well. For when the job is done. Nice Vid as usual though.

[@sirskyrage]

10:55 I know I am very late but maybe someone still sees this: this sign marks the beginning of something called "Kraftfahrstraße" and it basically limits traffic to vehicles of a maximum speed of AT LEAST 60km/h (so no things like slow tractors, motor rollers ect). Also if it has at least 2 lanes in each direction that are separated by a barrier it has - much like the autobahn - no general speed limit!

[@inncubus666]

Its great to hear some of these details that go into things that are fairly mundane and we forget about all the time; adds some appreciation of the work that goes into...everything. So many things we take for granted and don't think about. All that we do relies on so many other peoples creativity and work. All these people in the world claiming to have got everything they have on their own with no help from others... it's just nonsense.

[@MattMarshallUK]

19:02 I can feel the frustration from the CAT Business Development Manager watching this video :D

[@lizbodge]

My fav factoid I learnt about roads was that the M6 toll road was built using 2.5 million Mills & Boon novels! For those who don't know Mills and Boon specifically publish trashy romance novels in the UK. So if you drive down the M6 toll you're literally driving over smut!

[@goschty9042]

Love that GCP Grey refference about the hexagons xD Also yes the game is set in germany :)

[@mylittlemusical6168]

In Canada on the highways the post on the signs are wood and on other slower streets the posts are metal

[@icanrunat3200mhz]

Afaik, in the U.S., we use barrels full of sand at the ends of _guard rails_ that face into traffic.

[@sselesUneeuQ]

4:50 RCE blocking the road casually explaining his job.

[@malcolmgruber8165]

The ramp issue with the guards are so true. I witnessed a sleepy driver do exactly that, was the most wild and only live accident I've seen happen. Van flipped head over heel down a hill.

[@gamepants4535]

I always come away from RCE's videos feeling like I learned something ^^ It's a nice serotonin

[@MichaelNikrandt]

When he talked about the signs where it reflects if you don't know it's something called reflective vinyl which reflects when lights hit them

[@The2ndArchangel_]

I love the fact that all this traffic is just stopped there while this guy goes on a monologue on why road things are the way they are

[@Ghfvhvfg]

Imagine road maintenance people would explain like this during work

[@jackzed2020]

At 10:50 Yes, that is what it means. Which is a sign usually ignored by: suicidal bikers Tourist trail walkers Booze drunk tractor drivers (although there often is an additional one excluding tractors from that rule). It literally says "ONLY cars". The round and rectangular shapes also have various meanings, such as the colors (you see, the blue ones are actually more or less shaping rules on the road where the red ones forbid something, such as driving soo fast or into a road at all)

[@doobs46]

My favorite videos are when you talk about your engineering knowledge and experience.

[@e1presidente868]

The Sign in 10:54 means „Kraftfahrtstraße“, which is unlike the Autobahn limited to 100kph.

[@TheeSurfer]

In ashford, kent we have that weird machine on your first job and it’s actually a Mercedes

[@icyboyy6177]

The sign with the car on it means kraftfahrstraße. It's like a autobahn just smaller and most of the time it has a speedlimit.

[@barrybend7189]

fun fact rollers were originally called steam rollers because they were infact steam powered. they were specifically a type of road building traction engine.

[@Map71Vette]

Didn't they also use steam to heat the rollers? I was thinking that was another reason they had that name.

[@dirk2695]

One of my favourite youtubers at the moment, together with let's game it out. Soviet womble and Nile red

[@katm3413]

Hey! i just wanted to tell you that I received my Paddy Plush 2 days ago all the way to Canada! Keep up the good work :D ❤

[@TheDaiyen]

Well let me start... The paver you used in the game is an Super 1800-3i paver from the Joseph Vögele AG, it's the most build paver from the company and why do I know this ? I'm an electrical engineer, doing the electrical installation and commissioning tests on these maschines. And with these many buttons you can have a lot of fun, while in the game, it just scratched the surface of what they can do. And about the steamroller, you do not always need them, because there is a tech for the pavers called high compression system which puts about 100 bar on oil pressure on the screed ( the heavy ass Pack on the back, which is heated throw electricity and weighs as much as the rest of the paver (the bigger ones about 10-15 tons alone)). And with this there is no use for a steamroller for a small pavement thickness. Fundamt btw. Europe paves the most of the time very slow (max 25m/min) with a thickness of lick 10cm-40cm and it holds like 5-10 years, while america paves very fast (max 75m/min) with a thickness of 2cm-5cm.

[@zekeweis6529]

Roman Roads: Built to last a thousand years, because it had to be Modern roads: cheaper to make, easier to make. Big reason people think roman roads are best, many counties at least in the USA takes forever for them to be fix. So both the past and present engineers were brilliant for what needed to be done, government is slow to maintain and slow to pay to fix things. Love your videos, keep up the great content

[@whattheydidnttellyouwithbr2844]

Actually that is also incorrect Roman Roads suffer the same problem, a lack of the flexible part. So they really weren't built for thousands of yeard

[@zekeweis6529]

@@whattheydidnttellyouwithbr2844 Roman roads still hold marks on the land today in many areas and are still being discovered by farmers plowing fields. Yes they lacked the flexible parts, which would give to massive wear and tear with what we use now to get around. But for what was used for transport and they were designed to handle, it would have lasted as long as the Empire stood. It is impossible to say how technology would advance if Rome stood and never fell, but for the design and what it was for would stand for far longer as long as the military and empire stood. Nothing last forever, but my point was Roman empire have engineered stuff that last longer than we currently can do with similar material and builds. But we have advance in material and means to build things faster and cheaper. Both engineer standards based on their respected time period is above and beyond most comparatively of the time.

[@sushijones]

I hope the game gets more mission types, this is such a fun and educational series!

[@tuseroni6085]

also profit isn't the only reason people steal signs. where i grew up we had a highway "I-69" those signs got stolen a lot for non-profit reasons. similarly if you have a highway "420" just give up on ever having signs.

[@myjrbs]

It's so funny because I can't stop looking at the central reservation now to see the poles get closer and further away haha like the concrete barriers they're making now for the smart motorways are like the close poles one, it's so interesting! But also very dangerous as I'm the driver and I'm staring at a barrier haha

[@rashido_grey]

This is by far the best episode yet.

[@shattered_helix]

Around where I live, road planers are generally referred to as PSDs, or Pavement Surface Destroyers, a much cooler name.

[@marcor815]

The only places I know with concrete used as top layer on roads are at bus stops. I think it is because all buses stop at the exact same location so the road must be more durable there

[@lucassrensen9746]

18:19 There is a 3rd person camera I don’t know that the shortcut for it is but I have seen another KZbinr play in 3rd person.

[@Maddd17]

6:04 I can’t believe he’s leaving “ausfahrt” alone 😂 Matt who are you

[@RobertSzasz]

4:30 you mean car launchers? In the IS we've been switching to energy dissipating end caps that curl up the rail , shooting it to the side instead of launching or impaling the vehicle

[@bjmgeek]

In terms of stealing signs, I've seen a lot of mile marker 420 signs missing.

[@tekbox7909]

Yeah some place had it so bad that they instead put up a 419.99 sign

[@icantthinkofaname2176]

There's some signs with "funny names" that actually have a gps tracker embedded.

[@zephrizi9034]

I wish road closures happened at night, here in the US they seem to make it a point to do any repairs at the busiest times of the day.

[@MrsDeviousNinja]

I love how he didn't get the "DOG" pun :'D it's the bootleg version of CAT, even the same logo :'D

[@jacecarter3501]

If you honk the horn while going through a stop sign, you don't have to stop. This also work on rail crossings

[@crazyjack3357]

In the USA it's common to hook the asphalt paver to the truck delivering the asphalt so you can do a very large Chunk in one go do you guys do that in Europe and in the UK

[@Aeroxima]

Sign thieves, "Might seem quite bizarre and unrealistic" I knew somebody that had one hanging on the wall in his room. Just because. I never really thought about it all that much.

[@kb0ne15]

7:40 HEXAGONS ARE THE BESTAGONS

[@the98themperoroftheholybri33]

The point about Roman roads lasting forever also doesn't account for constant vehicles weighting tens of tonnes driving over them, Roman roads would've had to dealt with mostly foot traffic and horse and carts

[@murphylhunn]

Ive watched so many simulator videos from so many countries today that im not sure i remember which side of the road im supposed to drive on

[@LiammonLemon]

The DOG roller is a joke as CAT (caterpillar machinery) is so very common.

[@wasweisich_]

10:50 It's the sign for intake of the German Autobahn or it sais "Here are Cars allowed. And **ONLY** cars!"

[@TheExileFox]

Regarding removing the pavement: this is would be possible to implement in this game, if you have just have a trailer for the vehicle which is digging up the pavement.

[@KV-2Gaming]

The A20 (or M5 I forgot) has a random part of it concrete, for no reason, not even a mile

[@iminsideyourwalls9432]

This game reminds me of my summer internship as an engineer at the DOT 🤣

[@rishoh]

I remember hearing a story once, about a bridge here in America that was literally stolen by scrap thieves. So yes I do believe that someone would steal the signs.

[@Landrassa1]

I also recall seeing quite a lot of student housing decorated with a road sign here or there.

[@polie67]

Imagine being the safety barrier cleaner person and going to the pub and talking to a girl. She asks you what you do, "I have the most important job for the city. I clean the safety barrier." 4 years later Christmas Eve being called in at 7pm for an Emergency Safety Barrier cleaning. Missing birthdays, anniversary's, holidays...all in the name to clean safety barriers.... (Also I seriously doubt we have them in the states except maybe for a posh neighborhood.)

[@PNWParksFan]

I believe this game does have a third person camera option, which would allow you to see e.g. how shiny the railing has gotten, whether your arrow sign is flashing the right direction, etc.

[@NeuroRadX]

Stop signs, the bane of an engineer it seems...

[@crazyp4745]

“There made of hexagon’s because their the bestogons” had me laugh

[@nathanksimpson]

I had a car accident in Canada and the signpost was made of wood. When I hit it, I think it just broke off its foundation and/or popped out of the ground.

[@Mephora]

10:50 This sign means that you can go as fast as you want if there are more than 2 lanes for each side or there is a structural seperation between the two sides, otherwise it is 100km/h. It also bans many vehicles like bicycles and slow moving bikes.

[@jaronics]

That's wrong! If this sign appears, all traffic that can not drive over 60 km/h is banned (bicycles, mopeds, tractors). You also can't drive as fast as you can. The normal speed limits are still in charge (50 in a city and 100 if not). The speed limit only changes to 130 if the road has two lanes per direction, and if they are separated from each other with a safety barrier or similar.

[@jaronics]

I don't know where you come from, but these are the German rules.

[@Mephora]

@@jaronics sorry, kinda mixed it up a bit. It is of course 100km/h if it's just one lane per direction. I just looked it up real quick and it seems to be the way I got it in the first place. It's recommended to go 130km/h on those if they have multiple lanes but you can go faster as on the Autobahn (Richtgeschwindigkeit) And to the vehicle limitations. Your right it's dependent on their maximum velocity, but it boils down to vehicles like bicycles not being allowed there. Prove me wrong if you think I got it wrong. Would be a pity if I lose my license because of that haha

[@Mephora]

@@jaronics As I said I looked it a up and they either say there is no limit or it has 130 "Richtgeschwindigkeit" which is not a limit, just as on the Autobahn.

[@1901link]

I really love this series! More informative than I had expected lol

[@aleahjohnson1031]

It made me so happy that he knew “Hexagons are the best-agons” 😂😁

[@LucasLim-2]

I learnt more about roads than anything in school

[@normalchannel2185]

Did you know that RCE is a fan of CGP grey(7:43 hexagons are the bestagons)