NOVA drivers beware: Potholes galore
 

It's getting really bad out there, guys. I'm talking not just tire puncturing, wheel bending potholes... I'm talking suspension destroying ones. The roads are very well torn up, including a few key routes that are my only option on the way out of work.

Fairview Park Drive between 29 and 50 heading in the direction of 50 has some major potholes in the right lane that will eat your tires.

The 50 west-bound ramp onto 495 has suspension eating potholes all along the seam from the old ramp to the temporary ramp. Construction barrels are blocking a clear route around them so you have to very carefully angle over the least dangerous ones. Hopefully VDOT fills them in overnight, they are the worst I've seen, with the worst section of the seam being probably half a car width wide, 12" deep, and 24" across. Definitely will eat you up.

Given the state budget I'm sure we're going to have a lot of road surface issues this year... gah.

Steve, FWIW you can report pot holes to VDOT at: Report a Road Problem

They will eventually get to it. By reporting them to VDOT it might help get it filled sooner.

Just did on WTOP's site, will do the same there.

You're right though its pretty ugly out there. I hit one on the way home I thought my axle had just broken in two!

Yeah, I hit one last week that jerked the steering wheel so hard it hurt my wrist. I thought for sure I'd have bent something or punctured the tire, but to my surprise there was no damage.

That sucks for a state that you pay high vehicle property taxes but they cannot fix the damn streets.

Well, to their credit, the ones I am talking about are probably less than 24 hours old. We'll see tomorrow if they've been patched.

Agreed. Narrowly missed on I-95 about a week ago. Saw the car in front of me sink in.

:eek:

I just can't wait until we're well into spring. This winter has been brutal on the roads, and this rain hasn't helped much either.

It's like that here, too. I can't drive anywhere w/o hitting a series of unavoidable holes that makes the car feel like it's getting a massive flat.

I'm actually least worried about a flat. I'm worried about ripping a corner of the car off.

I'm making mental notes of where NOT to drive the Z.

There's a couple here in Columbia, but not too bad considering.

I take the occasional trip to Wheaton coming off of SR29... SR193 is insane on the pothole scale, and that was before the rain! Now you might as well be driving on a gravel road with a river running through it.

it's pretty bad here, i actually managed to slash the side wall on my xterra tire, i had to buy a new one...