Originally Posted by Roody

Yes, and you mentioned on another thread that the roads are great where you live. You're very fortunate! You probably have competent state and local governments that understand the importance of funding good travel infrastructure.

But I have to tell you that this is not the case in most of the USA. In many states, roads have been neglected at least since the Great Recession, and many even decades before that. Here in Michigan, for example, we had the best roads in the world in the last century. Today, they are little better than Swiss cheese.