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Worst Paved Roads

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  1. Newjoint

    Newjoint Formula 3

    Jan 17, 2016
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    We all have driven and damaged our performance vehicles on paved roads and bridges in such horrific shape which should be labeled for off road vehicles use only. This is our taxes at work- and our government inability to maintain decent roads and bridges.
    I have seen comments off and on about bad roads on FerrariChat (most recent about I495- Long Island Expressway)but would like to start this thread specifically to comment on particularly bad roads we have driven anywhere and hopefully save a few Ferraris along the way
    I’ll start it off with the streets in SOHO NYC-like Wooster and Prince- cobblestone streets- slippery in the wet, noisy at their best- but here seem to have undergone upheaval from what ordinarily would be earthquakes but in this case contractors doing underground work and leaving them in shambles. Even with road speeds kept in the single digits due to traffic- bottoming out and wheel damage is a constant danger.


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  2. Viperjoe

    Viperjoe F1 Rookie
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    Many of the roads SE Pennsylvania are straight out of a 3rd world $#!+hole. Staying vigilant and navigating around potholes is a major detriment to the joy of driving. Poor road conditions are a great example of the Government waste and misuse of the tax revenues.
     
  3. Shark01

    Shark01 F1 Veteran

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    I would imagine every large one than areas would suffer from this. In Houston, you are driving on wagon trail like roads while looking up at multi-million dollar homes. But in the ‘burbs you have apartment dwellers driving on roads as smooth as glass.
     
  4. Jaguar36

    Jaguar36 Formula Junior

    Nov 8, 2010
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    Cherry Hill, NJ
    I've actually been impressed with the road conditions as of late in South NJ. We've had a couple of mild winters in a row and that seems to have let the DoT get ahead of things. The roads around here are generally in good condition now.
     
  5. ross

    ross Three Time F1 World Champ
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    pick any road in houston within beltway 8, and it is a potholed bumpy mess somewhere.
    they will dig up a newly paved road within weeks, just to make it a bumpy mess.

    the family go-to car is a mercedes wagon - driven by 4 different people over the last 55k miles in 5 years.....18 tires, 6 rims, and 2 axles broken.....so far.
     
  6. aatk

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    Detroit. Broke a radiator hitting a pothole there. No joke I could park in some of them.
     
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  7. PMiranda

    PMiranda Formula Junior

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    New Orleans. Or... almost anywhere in Louisiana, come to think of it.
     
  8. Hocakes

    Hocakes Formula Junior

    Apr 24, 2010
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    Wheeling, WV entire area. Roads are destroyed from heavy gas & oil equipment trucks. Most have probably not been paved since the 60s from the look of it. Not exaggerating. They look like the surface of the moon.
     
  9. bball16

    bball16 F1 Rookie
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    Long Island Expressway from the Mid Town Tunnel to exit 72 is a disgrace.
     
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  10. 19633500GT

    19633500GT F1 World Champ
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    Outside Auburn MA area on I90 there’s a pothole (cavern) I swear I’ve hit at least twice. The second time I braced and have no idea how it didn’t rip my front end off
     
  11. Newjoint

    Newjoint Formula 3

    Jan 17, 2016
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    The outbound upper roadway of the 59th street bridge NYC-concrete roadway with sharp edge craters- chews up tires like candy- for my SL65 it was 4 rims and tires all at once. That car went through 18 wheels and 21 tires in a 3 year period until I got rid of it-


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  12. Meister

    Meister F1 Veteran
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    Road are just like every other product today, built cutting corners in the name of profit or speed. Municipalities/counties or states dont seem to hold the builders accountable and a road built in just 5 years is just re bid/re built and we pay again.
     
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  13. Jb-Slow

    Jb-Slow Karting

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    The entire greater seattle area
     
  14. staatsof

    staatsof Nine Time F1 World Champ
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    I'll nominate NJ and NYC for sure. I remember when I first visited Manhattan one winter after my wife moved there. There was a pothole in front of her very new high rise apartment building near Lincoln Center that could swallow a Yellow Cab. It had all sorts of folding signs, cones and whatever shoved into it to keep cars away from it. It's why my daily has been a 99 K2500 Suburban with 15" rims and huge tires for the last 17 years. Nothing fazes it ... but It does wear out suspension pieces pretty fast.
     
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  15. jjtjr

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    I go to Maine several times a year and can't believe how Mass leaves the bridges on 495! The elevation difference is so much that they are jumps, you can see all of the skidmarks from tractor trailers on the brakes locking up their tires. I now know where they are and I get into the right lane, slow down and watch the mayhem.
     
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  16. Stevenb

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    Los Angeles. The whole city
     
  17. flat_plane_eddie

    flat_plane_eddie F1 Rookie
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    Where are you driving in LA that the roads are that bad? If there's one thing that I can't complain about in California, it's that our roads are fairly decent. Sure, the highways that see heavy truck traffic by the ports are bad on the inner lanes but besides that we have it pretty well.
     
  18. Stevenb

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    Sunset blvd (lots is fixed but boy was it bad), the 405, Venice, Brentwood, pacific palisades and some south of Ventura in The Valley
     
  19. JCR

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    Houston is the worst in Texas.
     
  20. vrsurgeon

    vrsurgeon F1 World Champ
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    I'd like to nominate downtown minneapolis as having some pretty bad roads. The 2 inch "clunk clunk" as you go over EVERY gap in the road gets tiring after 3 minutes. It would be nice if the high taxes actually had something to show for it.

    However Houston is legendary...
     
  21. J-P

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    #21 J-P, Apr 23, 2021
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    I used to think LA was bad...until I drove in Dallas. Horrific.

    The comment above about cutting corners and governments not holding contractors accountable, who then get another contract to redo the roads, is quite apropos. They day the road is finished it is already extremely bad. Never seen anything like it.

    Not only is the quality of the roads bad, but so is the overall design and engineering. I have a lot of bad things to say about California, but CalTrans' engineering is not one of them.

    Dallas highways were designed by a five-year-old throwing a handful of spaghetti on the ground. There is absolutely no way Dallas could handle anywhere near the capacity that the overcrowded LA freeways do. The quality of the local individual driver does not help, either.
     
  22. Doc_Dent

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    Holding (contractors/maintenance comp) responsible for any damage resulting from road faults in strict yet direct and rapid compensating means, is the only efficient solution for "road disasters" we have in any city/state/country IMO.
     
  23. alum04org

    alum04org F1 Rookie
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    Apr 23, 2009
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    Michigan's roads are abysmal.
    However, not so much as one travels north.
    When younger I loved to drive at night. Now I find my night-sight has diminished to the point that it is almost impossible to scan for potholes, frost heaves, and expansion joints before striking them. Hence, if I drive at night it'll be my daily-driver only.
     
  24. AceMaster

    AceMaster Three Time F1 World Champ

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    Thank God we don't have this problem in Canada. Perhaps your government should stop sending billions of $$ to terrorist states and instead invest it in your roads/infrastructure
     
  25. Smiles

    Smiles F1 World Champ
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    I-94 in western Michigan is really bad. For miles and miles.

    Matt
     
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