Virginia/DC drivers

Jessobear · 12-11-2010, 07:54 AM

I bought my car in Manassas and drove it back to DC. 66 was really not bad other than the noise, which is a combination of the concrete and the loud Bridgestones.

Believe me, the roads are not bad around here. Go to Illinois and drive around the Chicago area. I've never seen anything else like it. With all the freezing and thawing they got the last few years, you'd swear you were in a war zone. Extremely poor construction is part of it too, because if you drive north to Wisconsin, amazingly the roads get better.

I have a long standing belief that the construction companies who pave the roads in Illinois purposely screw them up so that they have a guaranteed job in five or so years. I have this very distinct memory of driving home on 294 in Northern IL and encountering regular really sharp ridges in the road. This road was roughly a year old. I started watching my odometer and sure enough, every 0.3 miles on the dot, another ridge.

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12-11-2010, 07:54 AM	#19 (permalink)
Jessobear Base Member Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Washington, DC Posts: 201 Drives: '10 370Z Tour/Sp M6 Rep Power: 15	I bought my car in Manassas and drove it back to DC. 66 was really not bad other than the noise, which is a combination of the concrete and the loud Bridgestones. Believe me, the roads are not bad around here. Go to Illinois and drive around the Chicago area. I've never seen anything else like it. With all the freezing and thawing they got the last few years, you'd swear you were in a war zone. Extremely poor construction is part of it too, because if you drive north to Wisconsin, amazingly the roads get better. I have a long standing belief that the construction companies who pave the roads in Illinois purposely screw them up so that they have a guaranteed job in five or so years. I have this very distinct memory of driving home on 294 in Northern IL and encountering regular really sharp ridges in the road. This road was roughly a year old. I started watching my odometer and sure enough, every 0.3 miles on the dot, another ridge.