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Originally Posted by iheartthed
Yeah, I was being generous lol. I've driven across a large chunk of Brazil, mostly near the coast. I haven't driven between SP and Rio, but I just assumed the road network was high quality. You can go east, north east of Rio for about three hours and still be on the equivalent of interstate grade highway. I think it's just after Cabo Frio/Buzios it really starts to go downhill and stays like that until you hit the next major city.
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Actually, highways between São Paulo and the upstate/coast are the best ones: large, modern, world-class. Campinas is a massive highway hub as well, second only to São Paulo. SP-Rio is a federal highway, and even though it's a full highway with several lines, it's not as good as the rest of the SP state-owned.
Crawford knows Santa Catarina, a state as wealth as São Paulo and it's actually booming (Texas vs California thing) and their infrastructure couldn't be worse, from highways to sewage systems.
One thing about Brazil that except for São Paulo, no highways was built from scratch, outside some ringroads here and there. The very few 2x2 highways outside São Paulo is roads, with bad gradients where they simply add lines (we call "duplicação" in Portuguese).
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Originally Posted by iheartthed
It's similar in Argentina. The road networks in Buenos Aires are just as well developed as any global major city I've visited. But the inter-city highways are all two lane highways without center median barriers. Most Americans alive today can't remember when the U.S. highway system looked anything like that.
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I don't know Argentina but I imagine it's very easy to have good roads there. It's big flat land everywhere. Brazil, it's the opposite, it's very rugged.
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Originally Posted by iheartthed
But the inter-city highways are all two lane highways without center median barriers.
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I'm not sure if I understood it quite well. Do you have an Street View example?