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After 350,000 miles on the roads of eastern Canada and the USA. Top 3 worst roads!

Faz
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....here's my top 3 worst roads

馃ぎ馃ぎ馃ぎMichigan. Lost a few fillings....
馃ぎ馃ぎQuebec. Whole families living in potholes
馃ぎPennsylvania. Permanent blurred vision
 
gemini4
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I presume you never drove in New Orleans.
 
Faz
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Shreveport was my only foray into Louisiana. The roads were horrible but it would have been unfair to rate the roads. Not enough miles in that state.
 
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Faz Faz
....here's my top 3 worst roads

馃ぎ馃ぎ馃ぎMichigan. Lost a few fillings....
馃ぎ馃ぎQuebec. Whole families living in potholes
馃ぎPennsylvania. Permanent blurred vision
Hopefully Pennsylvania will soon be removed from your rankings. Back in 2016, the state legislature passed a comprehensive bill to fund more than $2 billion to be allocated to repair the state's roads and bridges on a 10 year schedule. As a frequent traveler on Pennsylvania's roads, I have witnessed substantial construction and renovation projects in progress on many of Pennsylvania's major highways since that bill was signed into law, especially on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, I-78, I-81 and, most impressively, I-84 where long stretches of the road have been taken down to the dirt and completely rebuilt. The state has a long way to go, but things are improving.
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Live in PA and the roads are definitely improving. The problem is they put new roads and they are back to potholes after the snow season 馃榾
 
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Bet you have bitumen

 
Faz
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I need agree re PA. Many crews out doing their thing. Even Michigan is working hard. The abhorrent I-69 is seeing a major overhaul. What puzzles me is that the speed limit on some portions is 75mph? I can't maintain 65 so much the pavement is in rough shape.
 
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I complain about Australian roads a lot but when I was in Dallas I had planned to rent a Corvette for a few days since they鈥檙e not really available at all down under but on the ride from DFW to the hotel in the city the roads were so bad in the GMC Yukon we were riding in that it wasn鈥檛 really worth trying to drive a sports car through that and I gave up on the idea. There were cracks in concrete in downtown Dallas that you wouldn鈥檛 tolerate in remote parts of suburbs here so I understand now why SUVs are the standard in Texas
 
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The worst major rode I have ridden on was an 'interstate' leading to Moscow from the south/ west. It looked like the road had been carpet bombed. Maximum realistic speed was about 35 MPH, and a couple times each minute you had to almost stop in order to steer around a crater. Makes the 14th Street bridge in DC seem like you are riding on a cloud.

I also had a chance about 25 years ago to drive on some of those roads in Australia that look like what @STANDY posted above. No speed seemed to make things better. Driving really slow, driving fast, trying speeds in between, it just did not make a difference. And as a civil engineer it hurt my delicate sensibilities. 馃榿
 
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Unfortunately, I'll nominate my state of Alaska to be among those with bad roads. The annual freeze/thaw cycle (seasonally frozen ground) can impact roadbeds and damage pavement, but it is even worse where permafrost (permanently frozen ground) is thawing under roads, buildings, and other infrastructure. The arctic and subarctic have seen the most rapid rate of warming compared to other parts of the globe and one of the dramatic effects is thawing the ice contained in the soil. When the ice permanently thaws beneath roads, the structure and stability of the soil changes and the terrain sags. That will then distort and flex the infrastructure at the ground surface. A result is road asphalt becomes wavy, irregular and large cracks also develop as the ground sinks. The changing permafrost will continue to challenge engineers into the future so I don't expect to see our roads getting better.
 
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The German autobahns are made of concrete, laid in the days of Hitler and still being used.
 
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My vote is a tie with MI and PA. In 2000, I was driving a cab over 18-wheeler near Harrisburg, PA and struck a section of rough road that knocked the truck out of gear. And my head hit the roof of the truck as well (that might explain some things...). Not a wreck, but I did keep my hard hat close after that. In 2010 near Detroit, MI, I do not know where exactly, but another rough stretch resulted in a broke front axle leaf spring. Not a wreck, but sheesh. LA was not great either with the big section gaps on bridges and concrete slabs. Never been to Quebec.
Queensland roads were fine, just crowded and I am not a native. Oh and I had a learning curve with driving on the opposite side of the road. The outback, well, the Australia 4x4 youtube channel can show you how bad the road COULD be if you looked.

Great thread about whining about rough roads!
 
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We got some pretty bad roads in the northeast US parts of 95 which runs pretty much the whole coast are very nice you hit CT and it鈥檚 disaster but a friend of mine assisted in rebuilding a section of it. He delivers gas for a living, was cut off by a car, crashed and blew up his tanker burning up a pretty good size section that was all potholes so we can thank him for that new section
 
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STANDY STANDY
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Bet you have bitumen

Cairns to Karumba twice a week overnight in an 8wheeler International cabover over these dirt roads in the early 90s.
No chance of nodding off.
 
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Huus Huus
Cairns to Karumba twice a week overnight in an 8wheeler International cabover over these dirt roads in the early 90s.
No chance of nodding off.
My freightshaker (freightliner) and I tip our hard hats to you sir. Pro tip: strap the tv in the sleeper down or it will fall through the windshield when the cab is jacked up for engine maintenance. I have seen the aftermath.
 
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PennDOT puts it like this: "Temporary inconvenience, permanent improvement." It's more like "Temporary improvement, permanent inconvenience."

The I81/83 split/Eisenhower interchange silliness is never ending. Not to mention South Bridge and 581.

My vote for the worst roads? Pennsylvania.

have fun
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Huus Huus
The German autobahns are made of concrete, laid in the days of Hitler and still being used.
I have many thousands of Km's on the Autobahn and on a sunny day in light traffic they are the best roads in the world as the speed limit is relative to the amount of courage you have. On the other hand in heavy rain they are an absolute nightmare as the spray from the concrete blinds you even at low speeds.
 
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