Seeing a headline like that, you can’t help but ask: just how bad are the roads in Denmark in Sweden, if ours are better? Because, you know, potholes wei.
The World Economic Forum (WEF) conducted a survey on the world’s road systems, and wouldn’t you know it, Malaysia actually made it into the Top 20, at 19th place with a score of 5.6.
Influential auto blog PaulTan.org broke the news, and notes that Malaysia’s high standing in the global rankings put it higher than the road systems in Sweden and Denmark (#20 and #21, respectively), and even higher up than Canada, Belgium and, get this, the UK. (Thanks, former colonial masters!)
Sure, Malaysia is beaten out almost as usual by our miniscule cousin to the south, Singapore, which sits pretty at 6th place.
Just one rung up from Malaysia at 18th place is South Korea, and Japan is at 10th. Surprisingly, the world’s best roads are in the United Arab Emirates, but we figure with the kind of Dubai money they’ve got over there, they can have the best of pretty much everything.
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