# Comment on the quality of your local roads

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comment-on-the-quality-of-your-local-roads/970202>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 24, 2022, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comment-on-the-quality-of-your-local-roads/970202 "2022-08-24T03:04:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2022, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comment-on-the-quality-of-your-local-roads/970202/21 "2022-08-26T19:41:25Z")

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Pretty darn good. You can actually feel (and hear) the difference when you cross the state line.

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**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2022, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comment-on-the-quality-of-your-local-roads/970202/22 "2022-08-26T23:31:17Z")

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They seem to have given up on repairing potholes in Montreal and driving is a spine-jarring experience.

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**Author:** ![velomont](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/8491ac/32.png) [@velomont](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/velomont)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2022, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comment-on-the-quality-of-your-local-roads/970202/23 "2022-08-29T01:09:23Z")

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> [@Hari\_Seldon](#):
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> They seem to have given up on repairing potholes in Montreal and driving is a spine-jarring experience

Montreal’s roads, as I assume you recognize, are fucking appalling. Though I am sometimes a motorist, I spend a lot of time on my bicycle an I frequently (maybe a couple of times every month or so) get pinch flats, even though I’m riding fairly high pressure tires (110 psi).

Pot holes that are 6 inches to a foot in diameter, an inch or two deep, and with very sharp edges, are not uncommon; given the right (or wrong, depending on your point of view) lighting, I would not be surprised if there weren’t a few pretzeled bike wheels and even damaged forks out there (30 years ago I bent a front rim out of shape going through an unavoidable puddle which hid such a pothole).

I also wouldn’t be surprised if there weren’t a few damaged car chassis out there as well.

It’s also exacerbated by corruption and incompetent administration to the extent that specific stretches of road can be partially closed for work a year or two following previous work.

I’ve lived in a variety of cities in Canada and there’s nothing remotely like Montreal for shitty roads.

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**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2022, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comment-on-the-quality-of-your-local-roads/970202/24 "2022-08-29T02:48:05Z")

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I live in Dallas, and while the main roads are _usually_ in fairly good repair, the side streets and residential streets have been neglected by the City for a long time, and are often bumpy, hastily patched, etc…

For a larger value of “local”, our highways here in Texas are generally stellar, even the farm-to-market roads in rural areas. The state highways are as well maintained as the interstates, if not better. It’s always kind of a let down to drive in other states where the highways aren’t so well maintained.

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