Originally Posted by
scott967
Here a couple of the main roads on my routes have been repaved so things have improved a bit. One was nice for a couple months, then they came through and rolled a rumble strip into the shoulder, so you have to take the lane which makes it not quite so nice. It has a long downhill where I average 30-40 mph spinning easily in the 50X12 or 11. Before I had to watch the road like a hawk for potholes (though I ride this route weekly so pretty much knew what line I had to take). The county and state argue over who is responsible for some roads, result is nobody does any maintenance on them. Our current mayor has made it a priority to do more repaving; my entire suburb was repaved over the last two years.
scott s.
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I noticed that where rumble strips were installed recently for whatever reason they put them in the middle of shoulder......that left about 12-18" of space to ride on. If they had just put them next to the white line there would have been 2-3' of good shoulder. I'd really be curious to know why in the world they moved them over so far in the shoulder. It sure created a more unsafe situation for anyone wanting to cycle on those roads.