How are your roads?

[g love]

I live in Maine, and the roads are horrible. From the plow trucks and frost heaves to the constant construction, my 240 can't hold up! So I was wondering how the roads are where you are? If I should move to nice smooth tar, or is it the same all over the country? Please, let me know.

[r34 gtr]

Alabama tends to spend a lot of money maintaining our road system. Most of my fav. roads are glassy and smooth. I was just up there in NH and the roads were a lot more chewed up. VT roads are awesome though.

[Jesda]

Closed. Everything is being rebuilt.

[srpowered240sx]

ehh, we're on the coast and in the mountains, so earthquakes are constantly knocking roads around, and the snow plows pull up pot holes, but they arent horrible.

[Loki]

Absolutely terrible. Every time I drive my 240 somewhere I feel inclined to hug it and tell it I'm sorry, baby, someday I'll make it up to you.

[Ilvemynissan]

Around here the roads are nice in the city. Some of the more older/ghetto areas are still real bad. Huge holes in a lot of places. Up in my mountain pass though they are nice and smooth, it's like a track.

[GrilledCheese33]

We have good roads here in fl. There are some old ones around that could be re-done, but I have no complaints about our road system. Then again, we don't have extreme weather conditions to weaken or mess them up so I guess thats why.

[Dattebayo]

DC roads suck, but Montgomery County's roads really aren't that bad. Mostly the major roads like 355 and 97 are the worst since they see ungodly amounts of traffic each day. But we have construction every summer without fail and a new ICC (Inter-county-connector) highway being built to ease the congestion around 495, 270 and 95 north.

I look at them as "improving slowly"

[Red coupe]

I miss Camarillo Literally at any given time, they were likely to be repaving SOME road... And there aren't enough cars for that to cause any major traffic problems, so it just meant that almost all the roads were in pretty good condition and many of them only had a few years of wear....

Pomona isn't really bad.. but lots of cracks/ruts/uneven surfaces..

[Slider4105]

South Florida for the win. Although everything is always in a state of construction, that means the asphalt is relatively new everywhere. The bigger cities kinda suck sometimes though.

[APEXi240]

Roads in NJ are atrocious. The struts in my coilovers (in my old 240sx) blew out in about 4 months.

I have a little Tacoma now that has blown struts.

Road conditions will permanently keep me from having another car with any kind of decent suspension on it.

Between the roads, auto theft, and severe traffic, I will not own another modified vehicle in this state. My next vehicle will probably be another compact pickup.

[DevilMB3017]

Roads in NJ are atrocious. The struts in my coilovers (in my old 240sx) blew out in about 4 months.

I don't drive my 240, and this part of it.

I'm in Union, where you at man? Ever do any of the local meets/shows?

[1unar3clipse]

all I gotta say is **** Newbury park roads.always repaving, always reconstruction, always improving...

Yet the roads here tend to flood EVERY hard rain because the drainage system being designed by 4 year olds with Duplo's.

[r34 gtr]

Man, sounds like I won the lottery as far as road systems go. I feel sorry for you guys.

[MastaYu]

Roads in md are ok, some death pot holes. When i was in SC thats another story

[1unar3clipse]

Don't get me wrong r34, CA has its good roads and its bad roads.. Like the Topanga Canyon to PCH was just repaved so the drive and the view are awesome.. I wish the same could be said for other roads.

(not entirely off-topic) Who has round-abouts?I LOVE round-abouts

[r34 gtr]

I can see one from my bedroom window. I do donuts around it.

My room mate is from Montgomery county, MD, and I have no complaints with the roads there. A lot of run little back roads.

[MastaYu]

we have a couple round abouts here

[1unar3clipse]

I can see one from my bedroom window. I do donuts around it.

I envy you....

I have to drive to Mexico to enjoy them

[xekushnr]

The roads around here suck. The MDoT has had budget problems for a long time now. They never redo the roads, they just try to patch them and it just makes it worse when winter comes. The roads in my sub used to be the worst but we finally got new ones last month. The roads were built in '78 and were supposed to last 10 to 15 years to give you an idea of how bad they are.

As for the roundabouts, they are popping up all over the place here. There is one just two blocks from my house now, and another one going in about 2 blocks away in the other direction.

[BoostWanted]

blacksburg VA is pretty much fine except in about two places, Maine/vacationland is the worst i have witnessed. Driving around in our jeep is like bump de bump loopie.

[DevilMB3017]

Like the Topanga Canyon to PCH was just repaved so the drive and the view are awesome.

Some of those roads coming on/off the PCH are amazing. I was in LA last October on business and he picked me up from the city to see his house in the Thousand Oaks area. First time ever on the PCH, cruising up with little traffic just after sunset, in his Audi A6 4.2L...

[Axel Grungy]

Closed. Everything is being rebuilt.

always construction here in cincy

[pflicht]

There are some of the MAIN roads under construction here (and for the past 5 years, and will be for the next 4 years) but other than that, descent... Oh and a bunch o' dirt roads...

Handfull of round o bouts here as well...

[NSR_s30]

Some roads are great and some are TERRIBLE. And everything inbetween here.

[szh]

Roads around here in Norcal are surprisingly bad.

Even newly built highways (like the section of Highway 87 through downtown San Jose) are so badly built, IMHO, that I find it a waste of money. On 87, every expansion joint was left with ridges that they only recently got around to "shaving" down. Jolted the heck out of my car every time I went over them. The roadway undulates so much that you feel like you are in a roller coaster!

Many, many years ago, I drove a section of highway in New Hampshire that was amazingly awesome! Ultra quiet, flat as a pancake, wonderful driving feeling - best highway I have ever experienced! I have not driven this in decades, so I don't know if it is still this way, but if anybody gets a chance to drive some miles West (only 6 or 7, as I recall) towards Nashua, on Highway 111 from Highway 93 in the Derry and Salem area of New Hampshire, please let me know if highway 111 there is still in great shape!

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[APEXi240]

I don't drive my 240, and this part of it.

I'm in Union, where you at man? Ever do any of the local meets/shows?

Actually, I'm right next door...Hillside.

I used to go to some meets, but not really interested anymore. I think the last motorsports related event I went to was the Signal drift demo in 2004(?) at E-town.

Living here has sucked any and all desire to own a decent car right out of me.

[r34 gtr]

Highway 93 in the Derry and Salem area of New Hampshire

Was there two weeks ago visiting another NICO member! The roads sucked! Actually they weren't that bad, but they are definitely nicer further northwest from there. Beautiful state though!

[MinisterofDOOM]

Terrible. Davis County, Utah is home to some of the worst roads I've ever seen.Our road maintenance teams set the bar for low-standards, too.

I'm not just talking about surface quality, either. Yeah, there are more potholes in Davis County than there are grains of sand in all the beaches of the world. But it gets worse than that. Line painting is brilliant. Allow me to MSpaint-ustrate an example of their Michelangelo-quality works:Apparently we haven't discovered curves yet. So instead of a nice graceful turn, you get a sharp angle. Because no one has the brains to just ignore the sharp corner and turn with the road.

Beyond that, you'll get "road closed" signs put up weeks in advance, "left lane ends" signs when the right lane ends, cones blocking off lanes where nothing happens for DAYS... My favorite was the "construction on [x intersection] will begin on Sept 2nd." It was October.

Some of the roads in my parents' neighborhood have NEVER been re-paved in the time they've lived there (16 years!). The one in front of their house, where I used to park, is among them. It also happens to be the busiest road in the town and still hasn't been resurfaced.

Another awesome one is this pothole on this corner. The upper part, where people heading left and turning up onto the intersecting street pass. That pothole has been there for the whole 16 years I've seen that street. EVERY year the idiot road maintenance teams fill it in with that terrible useless loose filler crap. And every time, within a couple of weeks, the pothole is back again. They re-fill it multiple times a year. NO ONE has yet had the brains to try re-paving a larger area or extending the concrete out from the gutter. No. They'll just keep uselessly filling it in until the end of time itself.

[asoomal]

PRetty decent condition over here.