So how are your roads?

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So how are your roads?

Reply #15 – March 08, 2006, 08:35:32 PM

Quote from: Thunder Chicken

I'm not sick of paying taxes, I'm sick of paying taxes for a certain thing and having the government spend that tax money on something else. The point I was trying to make is that with the extremely high road taxes we have, our roads should be paved with gold.

Besides, if I gave up my cars and started walking or using public transit (which, btw, does not exist in the rural area in which I just bought the house) I'd have to give up the Fox TBird/Cougar forum and join some treehugger sidewalk-walker or bus rider forum

well there aint anything anyone can do int he snow now is there? to bad the goverment doesn't use concrete like the states. it would prove to be a much more long lasting yet costly expense

So how are your roads?

Reply #16 – March 08, 2006, 08:41:37 PM

major roads are decent...backroads are ...might need to get the truck re-aligned AGAIN

So how are your roads?

Reply #17 – March 08, 2006, 09:11:04 PM

Quote from: turbo88

well there aint anything anyone can do int he snow now is there? to bad the goverment doesn't use concrete like the states. it would prove to be a much more long lasting yet costly expense

There hasn't been any snow to speak of this year, but it's not just this year anyway - All of the roads have been seriously neglected for several years. Instead of repaving stretches of roads that desperately need it they're patching the patches. Then they repave perfectly good sections of major highways that don't even need paving because that's what tourists see. They tore the pavement up on the road I mentioned earlier five years ago - that's more than enough time to repave it. Hell, last year they came in and repained the lines, and the pen 15y s even painted lined on the gravel sections, almost as if to rub it in!

Words cannot describe the condition of this road - if I accurately decribed it you'd think I was exaggerating. I would take pics but after the blowout I don't travel it anymore - not that I'm much further ahead. Now all the roads surrounding this particular one are degraded to the point that they're almost as bad.

Like I said - it's not like this is some seldom travelled back road, either - it is the road to the munil landfill. It is very well travelled by both commercial and private traffic. There have been countless accidents and mechanical breakdowns over the past five years (broken tie rods, ball joints, springs, etc, including my own blown tire), but it is just plain neglected by the government, just like most other roads except those that happen to be in the premier's riding. The residents of the area complained, distributed petitions, and all that, but instead of sending in pavers they sent in sers and removed the pavement.

So how are your roads?

Reply #18 – March 09, 2006, 12:20:06 AM

Well owning property in two counties I have roads from one extreme to another. Hocking county, the only reason people visit Ohio... the roads are absolutely awsome. Not one pothole, plowed in the winter as soon as it snows. They even paint and put new markers on every year or twice a year. Best roads in Ohio. But Vinton county, eww..... The roads are mostly tar-chip, very loud to drive on. They paint the lines two years after they fade away. There are no potholes though.

I must bitch about the state roads though. State route 33 runs from colombus to the WV line. Ironically in Hocking county it is repaved every so often and is maintained well. But just north or south of the county there are those seems in the road that go thum-thump thump-thump every 50 feet or so. Ruins shocks and struts in no time. Down in Hocking county though you will see these great big ass trucks, I mean huge converted Gravel hualers...With these large flat plates under them. They Press down on the seems and vibrate. If you drive by one of them your mirrors will rattle out of position! There are usually 3 in a row and they go over every seem 3 times. Presses the seems back down I geuss.

So in my area I have what I would say the best Ohio roads out there. But go to Fairfield or Athens county and they are shiznit....

Of course people come to Ohio to see Hocking county, kinda cool living in the center of it all. Except when your running late for work and get behind someone gauking at the rock cliffs and big trees.......

So how are your roads?

Reply #19 – March 09, 2006, 05:53:20 AM

[COLOR="Blue"]Wow, you guy's have maintained roads huh? Cool. Most the roads here in Lake County are more like a constant set of speed bumps. And in my little town the roads aren't paved yet.

*dreams*some day..........[/COLOR]

So how are your roads?

Reply #20 – March 09, 2006, 09:45:35 AM

Quote from: Paul Flockhart

I've been driving for 13 years and it seems that for the past 5 or so that the roads around here have just gotten worse and worse. Heck, now when things get "fixed" they are actually worse then before.

Ain't that the truth! About 1.5 years ago, I purchased my '98 LSC from a dealer in Mass. I live in NJ, so on the way back, there was a billboard just north of the bronx advertising the latest Nissan pathfinder. In bold print it stated simply

"3 million dollars cheaper than fixing the B-Q-E"

I read that as:

"NYdot should need to fix the roads when you can just buy SUV's"

So how are your roads?

Reply #21 – March 09, 2006, 10:07:50 AM

overall the roads in florida are ok.where i live they are always working on them(under construction) so they suck. most of the major roads/highways are alright, but most sr's suck

So how are your roads?

Reply #22 – March 09, 2006, 06:22:35 PM

Depends where your at here. Where I'm at in Akron the roads are horrible. Go down the road a bit to Mogadore, smooth as can be.