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Take on drive on the freeways of California, especially those in the metro areas.

The supposed improvements have dips, ruts, holes, humps, bumps, more
curves, constant slowdowns for repairs, and publicly owned space stolen
for toll lanes that go nowhere.

Democrats whine that they are losing tax revenue because of electric
vehicles that don't burn gas, while they attack the oil and gas industry demanding money for "global warming" damages.

They are planning to raise taxes on the public to cover their wasteful
spending of tax revenue on pointless social blunders.

How about California reduce some of the Democrats in the state?

Especially those carpet baggers from the East Coast states like
Baltimore and Philadelphia.

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Sacramento Crime Wave wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:

Take on drive on the freeways of California, especially those in the metro areas.

<whinesnip>

Google: the worst roads in the usa

AI Overview:

Several states consistently rank low for road quality in the US. New
Mexico, South Carolina, and Mississippi frequently appear on lists of
states with the worst roads, often due to high fatality rates and
significant shares of roads in poor condition. Other states like Louisiana,
Oklahoma, and West Virginia also struggle with road quality. Rhode Island,
New Jersey, Hawaii, California, and Connecticut also have a significant
share of their roads rated as poor.

Not to mention gravel roads in red state bumfsck territory, not so great for bikes. Get that road grader workin'! (I remember as a kid in rural Illinois shooting at the road grader with a BB gun. The guy thought it was wasps.)

Having experienced the volume of traffic in L.A., no wonder the roads suffer from wear & tear.

--
Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Don't overdo it.
-- Lao Tsu

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On 04 May 2025, The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> posted some news:vv87j5$2etgh$1@dont-email.me:

On 5/4/25 4:01 AM, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

Sacramento Crime Wave wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:

Take on drive on the freeways of California, especially those in the
metro areas.

<whinesnip>

Google: the worst roads in the usa

AI Overview:

Several states consistently rank low for road quality in the US.
New Mexico, South Carolina, and Mississippi frequently appear on
lists of states with the worst roads, often due to high fatality
rates and significant shares of roads in poor condition. Other
states like Louisiana, Oklahoma, and West Virginia also struggle
with road quality. Rhode Island, New Jersey, Hawaii, California,
and Connecticut also have a significant share of their roads
rated as poor.

Not to mention gravel roads in red state bumfsck territory, not so
great for bikes. Get that road grader workin'! (I remember as a kid
in rural Illinois shooting at the road grader with a BB gun. The guy
thought it was wasps.)

Having experienced the volume of traffic in L.A., no wonder the roads
suffer from wear & tear.

Not to mention incompetent repairs. When the 210 developed a lot of
potholes after last year's rainstorms they were hurriedly
PARTIALLY-filled with blacktop. Most of these potholes were to the
left of the seam between the slow lane and the next-to-slow (sorry, I
can never remember which is the #1 lane) lane. The worst ones were
repaired with full-lane concrete, but there are still a number of
defective blacktop repairs.

The fact that most of these potholes (not round, just jagged chunks of concrete dropped below the surface where leakage clearly carried away underlying dirt) occur in similar locations might seen to indicate
that the contractor did a slipshod/criminal job.

And don't get me started about the City sidewalks...

Have you driven the 5 South or North between El Toro and Camp Pendleton
lately?

They took a perfectly good road, increased lanes, added unnecessary
curves and hundreds of diagonal "bumps" that are already breaking off
chunks.

When it rained recently, the water in the cracks helped break even more.
Brand new roadwork and it's already falling apart. San Diego has their problems too, but that was some terrible work.

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XPost: talk.politics.guns, sac.politics

On 5/4/2025 10:19 AM, The Real Bev wrote:

On 5/4/25 4:01 AM, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

Sacramento Crime Wave wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:

Take on drive on the freeways of California, especially those in the
metro
areas.
<whinesnip>

Google: the worst roads in the usa

AI Overview:

     Several states consistently rank low for road quality in the US. New
     Mexico, South Carolina, and Mississippi frequently appear on
lists of
     states with the worst roads, often due to high fatality rates and >>      significant shares of roads in poor condition. Other states like
Louisiana,
     Oklahoma, and West Virginia also struggle with road quality.
Rhode Island,
     New Jersey, Hawaii, California, and Connecticut also have a
significant
     share of their roads rated as poor.

Not to mention gravel roads in red state bumfsck territory, not so
great for
bikes. Get that road grader workin'! (I remember as a kid in rural
Illinois
shooting at the road grader with a BB gun. The guy thought it was wasps.)

Having experienced the volume of traffic in L.A., no wonder the roads
suffer
from wear & tear.

Not to mention incompetent repairs.  When the 210 developed a lot of potholes after last year's rainstorms they were hurriedly
PARTIALLY-filled with blacktop. Most of these potholes were to the left
of the seam between the slow lane and the next-to-slow (sorry, I can
never remember which is the #1 lane) lane.  The worst ones were repaired with full-lane concrete, but there are still a number of defective
blacktop repairs.

The fact that most of these potholes (not round, just jagged chunks of concrete dropped below the surface where leakage clearly carried away underlying dirt) occur in similar locations might seen to indicate that
the contractor did a slipshod/criminal job.

And don't get me started about the City sidewalks...

A good road can handle a lot of traffic with little wear. The problem
with CA roads is the rush to get it done.

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On 5/4/25 6:49 PM, Richard Dyke wrote:

On 5/4/2025 10:19 AM, The Real Bev wrote:

On 5/4/25 4:01 AM, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

Sacramento Crime Wave wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:

Take on drive on the freeways of California, especially those in the

metro
areas.
<whinesnip>

Google: the worst roads in the usa

AI Overview:

     Several states consistently rank low for roa

d quality in the US. New

     Mexico, South Carolina, and Mississippi freq

uently appear on

lists of
     states with the worst roads, often due to hi

gh fatality rates and

     significant shares of roads in poor conditio

n. Other states like

Louisiana,
     Oklahoma, and West Virginia also struggle wi

th road quality.

Rhode Island,
     New Jersey, Hawaii, California, and Connecti

cut also have a

significant
     share of their roads rated as poor.

Not to mention gravel roads in red state bumfsck territory, not so
great for
bikes. Get that road grader workin'! (I remember as a kid in rural
Illinois
shooting at the road grader with a BB gun. The guy thought it was was >ps.)

Having experienced the volume of traffic in L.A., no wonder the roads

suffer
from wear & tear.

Not to mention incompetent repairs.  When the 210 developed a lot

of

potholes after last year's rainstorms they were hurriedly
PARTIALLY-filled with blacktop. Most of these potholes were to the lef

t

of the seam between the slow lane and the next-to-slow (sorry, I can
never remember which is the #1 lane) lane.  The worst ones were r

epaired

with full-lane concrete, but there are still a number of defective
blacktop repairs.

The fact that most of these potholes (not round, just jagged chunks of

concrete dropped below the surface where leakage clearly carried away

underlying dirt) occur in similar locations might seen to indicate tha

t

the contractor did a slipshod/criminal job.

And don't get me started about the City sidewalks...

A good road can handle a lot of traffic with little wear. The problem
with CA roads is the rush to get it done.

I've lived 1/4 mile away since before it was built. No idea if there
was any hurry, but this section is built on piled up dirt. Presumably
some level of compression would have been specified. There is definite >erosion where the freeway passes over the road -- you can see the
concrete tiles bulging out where the dirt is settling, and water leaks
out between the tiles. Presumably there are concrete supports somewhere

in there, but I have no proof.

Navarro is from California and he has a severe beating coming his way.

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