Which state has the worse roads?

[Miramonti]

The states with the worst roads are the large cities in the northeast and midwest that get a lot of snow and freezing weather every winter. Trucks and ice easily crack the brittle pavement creating many potholes, and making it very difficult for the cities to keep their maintenance up to date and the roads fresh. The often have to resort to inadequate patching because it would be too expensive and time consuming to keep paving the same roads and highways.

 

[rky60]

Originally posted by: archcommus
I definitely vote PA.

Yup!

It's not just our major highways, the side roads here are just terrible. If I could get video of the carnage I have to travel on here you'd think the roads haven't been touched since the Model-T

They've been patchin the same spots here for years, it's like drivin over logs

 

[Evadman]

I have driven in every state except AK, HI, MI, and UT, and I can name the worst 3.

Worst is the greater Chicagoland area. Seriously. People get killed from falling pieces of overpass, and wheels get ripped off of trucks from going into 3' deep potholes. Hell, entire vehicles. Construction is neverneding, with salt in the winter, huge amounts of heat in the summer, and way way too much traffic.

A close second is PA. OMG! You know if you have been there.


A distant 3rd is MI. The paved stuff isn't that bad, but wow, at least IL paves most of the interstates 😛

 

[clamum]

PA sounds pretty bad. I haven't driven that much outside of the surrounding area, but MI roads are quite crappy... potholes everywhere.

 

[RadioHead84]

i havent read the whole thread but at the beginning i see the PA vote being strong. FOR GOOD REASON!


God does this state suck with roads lol. Granted i havent driven in every state but i think its a general agreement that these roads suck pretty bad compared to everything else. No road is smooth...I can serioulsy tell when i cross into another state when i stop feeling bumps ever 2 seconds. We also have the worst off/on ramps ever. Its like the people laying down the plans were like "Nah we dont need long merging on ramps...we'll just let them figure it out themselves as they get to the sliver of space we give them..." "Do you think they need lights to help them then?" "Pff nah...that would cost money..they have headlights"


Damn pendot

 

[TitanDiddly]

The highways in PA are nice enough. Most other roads suck though,

 

[MikeMike]

PA, Ohio, MI, IL(chicago)

driven them all, i live in ohio. all 4 of them have 2 seasons, winter, and potholes/construction.

PA has been very bad before for me, rain and construction at night isnt fun, but Ohio im used to since i live there, although it isnt bad traffic, the roads themselves suck. IL just has bad traffic combined with bad roads, and MI has some pretty terrible roads too.

MIKE

 

[Ronstang]

Originally posted by: beer
Texas has good roads. Horray for us 🙂

Texas has great roads comparatively speaking. Mississippi has some of the best road I have ever driven. Anywhere above the snow line sucks,

 

[SynthDude2001]

Originally posted by: EyeMWing

Originally posted by: ThePresence

Originally posted by: EyeMWing
PA. PennDOT takes YEARS to accomplish a simple pothole fill, and blocks 4 lanes for it. On my daily commute to college, there's a section of road work... Where they're redoing an interchange. It's hell. It's a poorly designed construction site. I fully expect it to not be finished when I'm done grad school.

Where do you go to school?

Currently a HS student in Maryland. Going to college at PSU: York (I'm a poor bastard) and commuting the 30 miles every day on I-83. The interchange in question is the I-83/Biz-83 interchange/corner/ridiculous fvckup south of York. If you're on I-83N trying to get onto Biz-83 north, you have to spot a tiny gap in a jersey wall... AND THEN DRIVE ACROSS I-83S TO GET ONTO IT. Uncontrolled interstate cross-traffic is a major no-no. Thing is, my commute is supposed to take me from 83N to B83N. Needless to say, I'm scouting out every humanly possible alternate route.

That doesn't sound right at all. :Q

 

[b0mbrman]

Originally posted by: Mallow
haha, guess y'all haven't been to louisiana. They had a drinking age of 18 for many many years. Since federal highway dollars were linked to a drinking age of 21 they didn't get anything and had to fund all of their own road construction, except maybe interstates. LA definitely has the worst roads.

Heh...so was it worth it?

 

[Thegonagle]

Originally posted by: preslove
Minnesota's suck. Make Florida look golden.

I beg to differ. Compare the climates. In FL, they lay down a good foundation, a good surface, and they're good to go for decades--it never freezes down there. In MN, with the freezing and thawing every night in spring and fall, the 100 degree summers, the sub-zero winters, and the liberal application of ice melting chemicals dozens of times per year, I'd say we keep our roads up pretty well.

 

[krcat1]

Missouri. It the only state that repairs the roads so that they will be worse that before.

 

[JustAnAverageGuy]

I can't believe the grammar nazi's haven't gotten to this one yet.

Which state has the worst roads?

 

[dug777]

WA's are pretty bad...

 

[davestar]

having driven through PA way too many times (including this past weekend), i'll concur with the majority. god i hate PA. fat. rednecky. bad roads. the transition of road condition at the MD/PA state line is hilarious.

 

[Jzero]

PA is widely held to have the worst in the US. I once read that PA has more "road density," that is roadway per land area than any other state and as a result it's nearly impossible to keep up.

 

[cornbread]

A while back there was an article stating that NY has the worst road conditions in the country, and TN has the best. This was based on truck drivers' opinions. Sorry, no link, but you can probably google it.

North Alabama (my home) has some pretty decent roads, in my opinion, especially considering the lack of state funding---- One of the "big" projects we have going on is a bridge replacement south of my town (Huntsville), replacing a narrow, 80 something year old 2 lane northbound bridge with a new 3 lane northbound bridge, then replacing the southbound bridge with a 3 laner as well. The construction on the northbound bridge has taken about 5 years so far, and is expected to be completed in another 5-6 years, and then the state says they will begin construction on the southbound bridge 5-6 years later, when they can afford it.

 

[Tom]

I haven't driven the PA turnpike for a decade, did they ever improve it ? It used to be the scariest place to drive, other than the west side of St Louis. That is scary because of the idiot drivers, more than the roads.

 

[WhiteKnight]

Another vote for PA here. I hate how they have "old" exit names and "new" exit names. Driving up I83 from Maryland you see the "Welcome to Pennsylvania" sign and then your car falls into a crater.

 

[Cleaner]

My grandmother lives in BFE Missouri and its bad out there. All of the roads are named single or double letters like T road or SS road. She lives off of M road. Oh and M road is a 1.5 lane clay track that goes off into the national forest. Town population = 124. Things to do = 0. Any questions?

 

[Heisenberg]

Originally posted by: Golgatha
Missouri. I'd vote Kansas for the best. It is night and day difference when you cross from the Missouri side to the Kansas side in KC.

Yeah, I was going to say Missouri too. Kansas and Nebraska roads are way better.

 

[tami]

new york for sure when you consider congestion... and well, other parts of ny are very poorly paved (to address other concerns)

 

[91TTZ]

I thought NJ and PA were bad until I went to Detroit. Worst ever.

 

[Chunkee]

Try Missouri sometime....its just plain pathetic.

however, the state i live in now, has the best, because we have a huge overinflated federal pork barrel for our DOT

Tennessee has the best roads

jC

 

[liquidblue]

I've driven in LA, NJ, NY and CA. I thought NYC roads were bad, but then I drove in Los Angeles and goddammit. I don't understand how people hook up their cars there. With those roads I would think they'd go through bent rims, broken body kits and bad shocks every week.

Needless to say, I appreciate NJ roads more than before.