What are America's most hated highways?
Top 10 loathed roads revealed with California
taking the top three spots
Daily Mail (UK),
by
Mackenzie Tatananni
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
12/18/2023 8:49:50 AM
Three highways in California ranked among the worst-regarded roads in the country, according to a new survey.
Drivers in Colorado, New York, Illinois and New Jersey are also just as frustrated with some of their main roads. Those states also found their major routes in those states among the ten worst roads in America.
Recently, Volvo Cars of Daytona Beach compiled a list of the 100 most hated roads in the US based on a poll of 3,000 drivers. The list is sure to cause debate among drivers who traverse US roads - as many believe their commute is the worst.
As for which road is most loathed? Go West, drivers.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
smak90 12/18/2023 9:04:25 AM (No. 1619707)
List is complete nonsense since I-35 is missing from it. Obviously they didn't poll anyone in Texas.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
DVC 12/18/2023 9:23:24 AM (No. 1619725)
LA traffic - it has been getting steadily worse for 40 years.
Many years ago, the ecocrazies captured the government power structure in LA basin and, based on observations, apparently made a decision to STOP expanding their freeway infrastructure. Whatever number of lanes you had in the core western ~2/3 of the LA basin in about 1975 or so, that was it. No more widening of freeways to accommodate the ever increasing numbers of cars. Just "tough rocks" from the powers that be, who hate suburbia and really want all of us on buses and trains, under their control. Apparently they were unwilling to take any more land to widen these freeways, even though widening was critically needed.
Cars are too much freedom for these ecolefties, so they clearly decided that they'd just strangle the car on the traffic by refusing to improve the roads any more. Some of the easternmost portions of the broader LA area have had some improvements in the freeways in the last decades, but nothing in the older western portions.
The southern parts of the I-95 and I-75 corridors north-south on the east coast were a serious disaster about 15-20 years ago, much of it south of Virginia still only two lanes in each direction. But since then, several of the states responded by adding a lane, sometimes two lanes, which greatly relieved the peak congestion in many stretches. Georgia deserves some credit for this. However, the section of I-95 from DC south to about Richmond has been a total PITA for the last 40 years, even though the northern 1/3 of that piece was under continuous construction and improvement, it was always one step behind the traffic increases for the last 40 years. I now rarely travel over that route, with most of my family moved away from Virginia, or deceased, and I don't miss it.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
clayusmcret 12/18/2023 9:55:01 AM (No. 1619745)
And none of I-95 made the list? Bull hockey.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Axeman 12/18/2023 10:06:22 AM (No. 1619757)
101 and 5 in CA run the length of the state. Only parts of these are bad, but they are very bad.
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The 101, 5 and 405: three bonus reasons I am so glad I left Los Angeles and the not-so-Golden State eight years ago.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
mc squared 12/18/2023 11:20:11 AM (No. 1619823)
How can there be so many serious crashes when some roads move at walking pace? I suspect most are not due to congestion.
(Where was the Cross Bronx Expressway in NYC?)
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Californian 12/18/2023 11:24:24 AM (No. 1619826)
I used to drive the 101 every day. Not only was traffic insane, the road itself was full of pot holes and debris. My car paint is badly chipped up on several panels and my windshield has 3 chips, too.
The 405 is the LA equivalent but even more traffic and the 5 is the only route between North/South, 2 lanes, the cow reek for a few miles and the most expensive gas in the country.
Cross the border into Oregon and the highway suddenly looks like black glass. They take care of the roads while California burns their money on social welfare for illegals and do nothings.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 12/18/2023 11:27:27 AM (No. 1619829)
No surprise that I-70 in the mountains west of Denver is in the top 10. The slow and go and stopping to get to a ski area adding at least two hours to a 75-mile drive that should only take maybe an hour and 15 minutes is a joke. And then getting to pay $200 plus for a lift ticket then stand in line at the lifts all day long due to overcrowded ski areas became a total waste of time and money. And it is no better in the summer when the Denver crowd wants to drive into the mountains to recreate. No worries though. Wife and I left Denver four years ago for western Colorado. We love it here. Problem solved.
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I-110 (aka, the Harbor Freeway) between downtown LA and Long Beach - 7 lanes each way, 2 of which are FasTrak. At its worst, 5 lanes, bumper to bumper, 2-3 mph. The toll lanes? Empty.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
cold porridge 12/18/2023 11:58:26 AM (No. 1619850)
Don't expect Butt-a-gig to help, "roads are racist." Besides, he's busy breast feeding.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
NorthernDog 12/18/2023 12:18:31 PM (No. 1619861)
They used to call the Schuylkill Expressway near Philly the Sure-Kill. Some stretches have no shoulder or inadequate room for acceleration.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
hershey 12/18/2023 12:54:49 PM (No. 1619879)
And the Moki Dugway is nowhere on the list...now that is a bad road...
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Timber Queen 12/18/2023 1:36:29 PM (No. 1619902)
#7 - I traded that L.A. 101 drive for Hwy 101 in Mendocino County. Completely different now!
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
mrdj 12/18/2023 2:43:35 PM (No. 1619931)
About ten years ago L.A. spent 1 BILLION dollars ( I mean you and I spent ) to add a carpool lane for ten miles through the Sepulveda Pass from I-10 to US 101 in west Los Angeles. That's $100 million a mile. What did it accomplish? Nothing. Then in 2019, the Transit Authority authorized $27 million just to study the idea of fast- pass through the same corridor. They want you to pay for the privilege of using the road. When will it end!?
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
zephyrgirl 12/19/2023 10:44:18 AM (No. 1620444)
I'm surprised they left out I-25 between Colorado Springs and Ft. Collins. The driving is insane, particularly between Colorado Springs and Denver. People whip from lane to lane at high speeds trying to avoid slower cars, run up on you at 80+ mph, and only apply the brakes at the last minute, no matter what lane you're in. It is truly a frightening drive. The Denver/Ft. Collins leg is only slightly better, mostly because it is shorter and has fewer lanes for people to play around in.
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