The A2 motorway no longer divides Maastricht

Post by bogomipz » Thu, Oct 17, 2019, 4:13 PM UTC

Tomte wrote: post #115

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Not a German speaker, but is baden the plural form then? I feel sometimes spa towns have baden in the name and others are just "bad."

The plural would be "Bäder", but I'm not aware of any town using that plural form. It would be very strange, too, because a town is a single entity. Baden-Baden is the only one I know that comes close, and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baden-Baden#Name explains how it got that name. It's not the spa prefix, but part of the name proper. Also, "Baden" is a region in the south-western state of Baden-Württemberg that pro…

From your link:

"In modern German, Baden is a noun meaning "bathing"[4] but Baden, the original name of the town, derives from an earlier plural form of Bad ("bath")"

Post by oneplane » Thu, Oct 17, 2019, 4:58 PM UTC

timerol wrote: post #107

oneplane wrote: post #95

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Why would they still want to make toll roads? I makes no sense aside from someone wanting to profit from essential public needs. You'd think if a bunch of people designate a small group to do government stuff on their behalf to make life better they do those sensible things centrally.

Responsive tolling on roads makes a lot of sense. Roads carry more people at 50 mph than they do at 30mph. So if you use the price of the road to keep the road moving, you can make a more effective road, rather than letting it be overwhelmed and less useful.

I thought an article just a few days ago proved that money-based restrictions or incentives only work if people are not left with any other choice and generally makes everyone sad and angry. Perhaps it's a culture or locale issue; we don't really have toll roads here.

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