Raider2187
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Aug 3, 2023 11:02 PM
Raider2187
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Crosive
It's all about where they want to spend the money. One county over from me, the dirt roads are in better shape than the paved roads here. It's not even almost.
metroid2
They should take some of their weed tax money and fix that shit
Silver420Surfer
"Welcome to Pennsylvania."
anotherdickat
Why do you think they need to inspect!
MeowMachine12
My county has charged additional money for car registration for the entire 8 years I've lived in it. Our roads are absolutely atrocious. They usually do a quick patch job that gets ruined over winter as I live in Northern Wisconsin and it gets cold. What the fuck am I paying extra for?
JARNSB
Louisiana. It's the soil conditions and lack of funding. LADOTD gets their state funding from a gasoline sales tax that hasn't been increased in decades.
UnrulyZombieDeer
I don't think that's a Colorado plate
TheZommie
thats why they need to inspect the vehicles, those roads are too dangerous for shitty cars
Dukenukemx
What you didn't see is that the truck damaged the roads.
OctopusGrift
Maybe if less cargo was transported by truck and more was transported by train this wouldn't be such an issue.
AchDuLieber
USA! USA!
DiscountMentat
I saw a car blow a tire in OKC on a pothole travelling south on I-35.
OverOneThousandManatees
People wonder why SUVs, even small ones, and trucks have overtaken sedans and small cars in sales. I say a lot of it has to do with people needing vehicles capable of withstanding crumbling roadway infrastructure.
420supercoolusername69
*Portland has entered the chat*
baggypants12000
ParryLost
kcjo19xx5772
Looks like Milwaukee
duchessofawesome
But have you been to New Mexico?
FartPoweredPogoStick
Gee, I wonder how the roads get fucked up in the first place?
AutoFox
Hot take, part of the reason those roads are like that is because they weren't designed for gigantic trucks.
Landstreik
To be fair (it's not) heavy vehicles like trucks cause exponentially more damage to roads. Invest in rail infrastructure, especially for logistics
OriginalAndWitty
Welcome to everywhere? Seriously, I thought there was some government funding for this shit, apparently it just lined a few lawmaker wallets
obviouslyrob
Interestingly, infrastructure construction isn’t completed immediately upon being funded. So weird!
PoorBoyChevelle
If it were funded that'd be news.
GeneralBacon94
The yanks need to adopt an MOT system
skellumqt
Having lived in CO, it's roads are relatively decent, to be honest. Not perfect, no where is. Only places i've really seen better are places with no freeze/thaw cycles
DoseOfScience
I wonder if that's a light sensor trough? The fact that it's nearly straight seems weird to me.
tp0d
im sayin reverse speed bump
alexburgers
most likely a trench cut for cables or pipes, and then filled in poorly and topped off with worse quality asphalt.
DoseOfScience
Possible. The only reason I thought it might be a light sensor magnetic line was that you pretty much have to run those across the top.
Kalli
Aside from all the existing problems of maintenance not being budgeted or paid for leading to these problems, the Suburbs are just an absolutely massive drain on resources. Way too low density means nowhere near enough funding to maintain all of the infrastructure that goes into supporting them. Shit was built with developers paying for roads that they'd never maintain, and it just got foisted onto communities instead.
marsgoose
Literally the only thing the government needs to do is fuck off. Stop subsidizing new roads and stop NIMBY zoning everything into suburbs. Let the people choose the type of housing they want to invest in and bear the actual cost of infrastructure where they live and problem solved.
The701
"I know what would solve this problem! MORE ROAD LANES!!!"
Crosive
Not only that, a lot of places were paved being paid by the mile, so you have a lot more twisty roads resulting in literally more road, that now also isn't maintained.
Landstreik
I recommend Strong Towns and Not Just Bikes on YouTube
WhatTheHellHero
I'm not a civil engineer, but I'm honestly interested in the ease and feasibility of upkeep for housing across various building sizes. If only because the bigger something is the harder it is to generally maintain, and I'd be interested to see what the optimal building size for housing would be in terms of practicality and cost.
onlyhalfghost
judging by what goes up most in Europe and Japan, mid-rise apartment blocks and light rail.
BigOrangeCats
Truckers often have lug nuts that double as scythed chariots.
TheGoatEmporium
Those are all just plastic. The actual lug nuts aren't, bur the spikes are just plastic covers. You can crush them by hand
Magavyn
I was wondering about that. Was on the way to work the other day wondering how the hell that was even lega.
Metalbawkses
Am trucker, can confirm. They are plastic and cost like $1
Zapathasura
I live in the Netherlands and I've seen little farm roads in better nick than that.
Snuggelapolous
Where we're farming, we don't need roads.
ExecutiveProducerWolfDyck
Because little farm roads don't have a constant flow of heavy vehicles on them.
Zapathasura
Yes they do. A shit ton of heavy tractors.
Freak0zoid
When they are whining and protesting environmental rules.
ricpaul
Yeah, but I doubt Americans pay 2750$ a year in 'roadtax' and be denied entry into a lot of cities. (Former government Volvo V70 EURO3 diesel, I recently missed a meeting because I was not allowed to drive into Utrecht with it).
AntiProtonBoy
Alice springs in Australia has better roads.
borocanuck
Frost heaving kills roads. Everything above 5C is just wear & tear.
Yupurineutah
Are the farm roads made of those billions of beautifully even paver stones that all of the other byways and neighborhood roads are made of?
Twist1000
Echt waar!
Yupurineutah
Ja hoor!
RenegadeBlob
State doesn't matter. It's all about taxes. There's no freeze/thaw cycle where I live and the roads are still crappy
CatsOrExcited
When I was younger, there was an obvious difference driving in MD ($$) vs WV (poor). Then MD just… gave up? It seems? Shameful.
wadatahmydamie
In red states, they sometimes reject earmarked infrastructure money to make democrats look bad, or to posture about BiG GuB’MiNt
Snuggelapolous
California is supposed to have some of the best roads in the country. I can assure you that's not true. Especially if you live in a poor/rural county or have ever seen the 405.
RenegadeBlob
I visited Orange Country and the roads were flawless. Went to Inland Empire and confirmed my suspicions.
Snooj
Very well could be that. Vermont has lovely roads; Maine has shit roads. Same climate but Vermont taxes are higher.
KonamiHatchiborii
NJ was abysmal. The naturally rapidly changing temperatures all year round require that a lot of maintenance be done, but it was just not done. East Texas has been such a hugely different experience. They are always on top of giving the roads here and I don't feel so tense when driving be it in snow or otherwise. Almost never any major potholes. You see repairs being done every day all over
martineb72
DFW are doesn't have that great of roads, mostly because of clay soil. It is unpredictable on if it will swell or not in the rain. Then on top of that clay is often sand that is easily washed away.
KonamiHatchiborii
Ah. So far I've had good experiences driving to the air port, not that's all the experience I've had near the big cities. I love outside of a decently large city, but it's great outside and in town there. Sorry to hear it's not great out there :C
SpectreA19
......where in Vermont? The highways are usually pretty okay, but the local roads around here are a nightmare. NH is the worst I've ever seen though.
zeacorzeppelin10
then people do shit like this on those poor quality roads.
OmnipotentBeing
I almost expected them to merge into one.
Vergenbuurg
A bad driver never misses their exit.
pooplloser
I mean, that is where maryland drivers and virginia drivers colide.
SpaceSpeed
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes, a pair of star-crossed drivers take their life...
tonyisdead
Those two deserve each other
spidermenz
Maviyakuku
Folie à Deux.
sourpants17
Black car almost took a headfirst slide into Cooperstown on a bad bet.
iheartcottnballs
Classic Virginia drivers. They love to keep ya guessing
StormSaxon
Maryland, but yes they all suck
justareallylongemailaddress
Yeah, right after dodging 6 Maryland merges.
KnifeKnut
When two idiots meet at a fork in the road
iamlegendinjapan
Was expecting birds to come out of both cars
DanBranDaMan
Bad drivers never miss their exits.
zeacorzeppelin10
The funny story is I was in a car with a guy who pulled a stunt like this I was working for a guy and we were coming back from a graduation ceremony we had worked at and he was like oh this is my exit and from the far Lane of the highway he forces his way over to the exit ramp gets through the exit ramp warning paint and is now on the shoulder of the exit ramp to realize it is not the exit he wanted to get off at to then drive over the dirt embankment and then force his way back on the highway.
MadamPuddifoot
Okay, to be fair, if this is the exit I think it is... The signage before there is FUCKING CONFUSING. However, they both suck, and should've just taken an annoying 20 minor turnaround detour.
CatsOrExcited
To be more fair, poor signage is an excuse to miss your exit. Not an excuse to drive insane.
StormSaxon
Maryland, 495
sunnytater1
Yep, where it meets 270
CatsOrExcited
I’ve seen full on traffic pile accidents happen here. Because no one expects THEIR lane to suddenly have cars in it. Insane.
LagerthaL16
Had to look at the sign but I could have sworn that was up around Seattle
zeacorzeppelin10
I thought it was NYC for a second.
LeonSpinks
I-270 in Virginia.
Hueroc
This is I-495 West/South in Maryland, exit 35