Originally Posted by genec
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/m...8potholes.html
Obviously road conditions effect more than motorists. Cyclists especially are effected by poor streets... Pot holes dent rims, parallel cracks can send cyclists flying off their bikes as wheels are grabbed. Poor roads probably effect cyclists more than motorists, actually.
What are the roads like in your area?
That road looks pretty good to me, for late winter/early spring conditions, however for southern California, which doesn't suffer from annual frost heaving, it's probably pretty bad.
The real key, is to not let them get bad in the first place. A little tar filling of cracks, every year, and some patching of bad spots, and you can get a road to last a fairly long time. Of course after 10 years or so, you really need to resurface, this is to give it a new clean surface, and to protect the subsurface part of the road. If you let it go, then you get to a point where the road bed, or base starts to deteriorate, then fixing it is going to cost considerably more.