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Worse roads in America; fun read
Topic Started: Oct 26 2013, 05:11 AM (258 Views)
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As a salesman I drove all mentioned in the mid-west and the east. As the Nat'l Sales Mgr. I drove all but a couple of the others (rented car). From what I can remember, these comments are right on.

http://autos.aol.com/gallery/worst-drives-in-the-world/?icid=maing-grid7%7Chtmlws-main-bb%7Cdl10%7Csec1_lnk3%26pLid%3D396980
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been on a number of those roads...

of course the jersey turnpike is a environmental disaster...always has been

i once drove I40 across america and found it quite attractive, except maybe the texas,oklahama part which was boring.

I5 to LA to SF is boring.

ive driven to chicago from florida and the indiana part was awful.

ive also found eastern washington state from spokane to the dalles incredibly boring (on a drive from calgary to SF)

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Done the I-5 route many times and can't disagree on that one, I often opted to do 101 instead just to avoid the monotony on 5. The only rival for that sameness, looong stretch of road is I-70 between Aurora, Co and Topeka, Ks which they seem to have overlooked.
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Years ago I was transfered by my company to Columbus, OH for a year. So I made the trip from NJ to Columbus a couple times. PA TPK is a great fun drive. Then you hit Ohio, and Indiana. OMG!!! It was so Boring, level, and flat I wanted to drive off the road. My first trip (Moving) My wife in her Opal, I in my Cadilac. She had the Dog. I had the two cats. Their first tine in a car. They never shut their mouths.
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The DC beltway is on the list and it belongs there. I hate it.

The road is fine but the people who use it are totally clueless. If I'm on the beltway it's because I want to go somewhere.

The people on the beltway don't care at all if they ever get anywhere. They are perfectly happy to sit and look at each other going nowhere.

The fact that many of them work for the federal government may explain this.
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Civilisation, I vaguely realized then - and subsequent observation has confirmed the view - could not progress that way. It must have a greater guiding principle to survive. To treat it as a carcase off which each man tears as much as he can for himself, is to stand convicted a brute, fit for nothing better than a jungle existence, which is a death-struggle, leading nowhither. I did not believe that was the human destiny, for Man individually was sane and reasonable, only collectively a fool.

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Cathys
Oct 26 2013, 07:36 AM
Done the I-5 route many times and can't disagree on that one, I often opted to do 101 instead just to avoid the monotony on 5. The only rival for that sameness, looong stretch of road is I-70 between Aurora, Co and Topeka, Ks which they seem to have overlooked.
Agreed on both of these. I do not understand why the Kansas slog is not on there.

I have done the north I-75 drive over a hundred times. I do not find it so bad because it is relatively short and I know the area, what's at all the exits, etc. You want boring? I-74 from Indy to Bloomington, IL to I-39 north to Rockford, IL. There's no there there and it is a 5 hour slog.

Whenever I can I avoid freeways and take the US highways. A lot of them are 4 lane with virtually no traffic, much better scenery.
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Nebraska.

The whole state.
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Oct 26 2013, 07:01 AM
ive also found eastern washington state from spokane to the dalles incredibly boring (on a drive from calgary to SF)

I once would have been in agreement because the desert escarpments are nearly denuded of trees and almost nothing green grows outside of a few weeks in the spring, but now I find beauty in the rolling brown hills of wheat and the rocky basalt and yellow grass along the Columbia.

But I still wouldn't live there now - too dry, hot, and windy in the summers.
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