View Poll Results: How many Stars would you give your streets?

1-Star

12.24%

2-Star

16.33%

3-Star

26.53%

4-Star

30.61%

5-Star

14.29%

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Dec 16, 2016 | 03:27 PM

#21

Fcar 98

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From: Pittsburgh PA

Full of bike lanes. This mayor is obsessed with them.

Dec 16, 2016 | 03:35 PM

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calguy

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Quote:

Originally Posted by RockyMtC5

Southern California has the best roads since they don't get winter or much rain......LA doesn't even compare so you must be confused.

What could a person from Colorado possibly know about the roads in Los Angeles?
I travel through out the LA area on business, and I have found most of the streets are in terrible shape.
The worst are in the northeast part of the city, and the streets in South Pasadena are probably the worst of all.

Bob.

Last edited by calguy; Dec 16, 2016 at 03:36 PM.

Dec 16, 2016 | 04:09 PM

#23

The Chev

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From: Athens GA

Quote:

Originally Posted by S.C. vette

Neighborhood streets are always in need of repair, highways are above average to excellent.

Umm, really? If you get off the interstate in S.C. you may as well be off road IMO.

Ga roads are excellent. Really, this whole region has good roads.

BTW New Jersey has the worst roads in the country. Those seams with the 3" lip are complete B.S.

Edit: Not Vermont....... New Jersey has the worst roads. I am not sure how I mixed that.

Last edited by The Chev; Dec 17, 2016 at 12:27 PM.

Dec 17, 2016 | 07:22 AM

#24

Skrilla

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From: NORTH BRUNSWICK Central NJ

Hands down outside of the moon, NYC has the worst roads ,well at least this guy thinks so.

Dec 17, 2016 | 09:36 PM

#25

friou

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From: jefferson texas

My municipal streets are pretty crappy, safe to drive, but certainly not great. County roads are fairly good. State highways are usually pretty well maintained. Road construction in E Texas takes forever plus an additional 2 years. They start a project, completely screw up the traffic with detours and barricades and then promptly disappear for days, sometimes weeks it would seem with no one working and leaving the motoring public to fend for themselves with traffic backups that reach to Spain. Very frustrating. Take care!

Dec 17, 2016 | 10:37 PM

#26

Slo Yelo C5

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The roads around Philadelphia are somewhat better than the roads in Benghazi, but not quite as good as Baghdad.

Seriously, they're horrendous. I remember seeing a survey a few years ago where they asked thousands of cross-country truckers to rate the quality of the roads state-by-state. PA was 48th or 49th...I can't remember. The roads are just flat out awful. I've broken numerous suspension components on my Caprice, Cavalier, and Cobalt around here. It's just a matter of time until suspension pieces break on the C5.

It's not even just potholes...I wish that's all it was. We have areas of road with 4" "craters" across the entire roadway, roads which have giant "bubbles" all over them (bubbles that are 2'-4' wide and 5" tall...I don't understand how a road forms "bubbles"?), and areas of road where two separate slabs of concrete and/or asphalt connect that are not level creating a artificial "speed bump" across the roadway. I've driven in every state from Virginia to Maine and everything in the middle, and nothing compares. PA roads are flat out horrendous.

Dec 18, 2016 | 02:20 AM

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calguy

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Originally Posted by Slo Yelo C5

I remember years ago on a trip to Boston, I was traveling on the Pa Turnpike, doing about 80 in my trans am, and hit a pothole that must have been a foot deep.
Didn't see any obvious damage, but scared the crap out of me.

What I see is a major problem here in Los Angeles is the street repair work.
More often than not, the repair is worse than what caused the repair.
Patch work was done on a section of the street I live on, about three years ago, and when finished the patchwork was (I stopped one day and measured it)11-1/2 inches above the existing road surface, across all three lanes of traffic.
It is worse than a speed bump.

I stopped using that part of the street because in the corvette I have to come to a complete stop before going over it, and have had numerous times when I dammed near got rear ended, because other drivers don't expect I am going to make a full stop.
I have complained to the city many times, but nothing gets done.
So, I just avoid that stretch of road.

Bob.

Dec 18, 2016 | 08:44 AM

#28

Slo Yelo C5

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Originally Posted by Bob Hubbard

That's relatively common around here, as insane as that sounds. I've probably busted 7-8 tires over the last 15 years of driving just from hitting massive PA potholes. I've called PennDot and my local politicians to complain time after time, and they just give me the same excuse..."not enough money". That's lame considering I'm paying enough state and local taxes to buy a used Cobalt every single calender year. I'm sure it has nothing to do with paying ridiculous "union prevailing wages" when doing roadwork. If you ever drive through PA again, make sure your eyes are focused on the imperfections in the road rather than other motorists. That's the only way to drive safely around here.