If you buy this house I’d definitely get that post inspected. Older support posts are hallow steel posts and this one has obvious signs of rust which could lead to problems down the road.

Ideally you’d have a footing poured to raise the bottom of the replacement concrete-filled post off of the ground to avoid the replacement rusting.

Highway lanes in the US are 12 feet wide. Highway lanes in the Netherlands and Japan are 3.25 meters which is more than a foot more narrow than our lanes in the US.

Narrow the lanes for starters. The US had absurdly wide lanes already. They do this successfully in plenty of countries in Europe. Why do we have to be stuck in 1950? There are plenty of real world examples of road diets that work, but US traffic engineers value the travel times of drivers above all else. That includes the lives of the drivers and the ones around them.

The comment I responded to explicitly mentioned driving like “insane people in construction zones”. The context is important. I didn’t leave this as a top level comment.

Roundabouts are far from the only way to limit speeding. Plenty of countries in Europe have figured this out, but I guess in the US we just have to continue to play dumb as car related deaths continue to skyrocket.

Drivers will not stop driving like maniacs until road design forces them to. People routinely drive 20-30 mph over on 376 because the road design allows them to.