Bad roads - I wish RVTW would indicate bone-rattlers

[bpaikman]

Some highways can be as rough as dirt roads - I’m thinking US 84 between Santa Rosa and Ft. Sumner in New Mexico, and some roads in southern NM. One wouldn’t want to take an RV down that.
I wish trip planners would warn. I can scope them out on GE if I’m concerned, but that’s usually several years out of date.
Best I can do is ask on this forum or FB and see if anyone chips in with warnings.

 

[Texas Clodhopper]

We're into the last week of our 3 months 16 state summer travels and I can assure you of one thing: the US highways are mediocre to terrible in the majority of states we've traveled in. We generally found better road surfaces on the secondary highways than on the major highways, particularly the interstates. I'm still wondering where all that "shovel-ready projects" money went.

 

[offroader09]

The condition of the roads in the US seems to be just getting worse. I have hit some pot holes that I thought for sure did damage to our RV. I-10 and I-40 between CA and AZ was pretty bad last summer.

 

[Joe Hogan]

My be an interesting Topic for discussion/posting experiences

 

[AbdRahim]

Let's see bad roads, NY I-88 (currently being resurfaced, PA parts of I-81, Indiana, some repairs on parts of I-90. Michigan, oh boy.

 

[Texas Clodhopper]

I read an article this morning that refreshed my memory and yes it needs refreshing often. I had forgotten there had been a massive Infrastructure Bill passed in 2021 which included clean water, and internet for all, and the following is pasted from the White House fact sheet: Repair and rebuild our roads and bridges with a focus on climate change mitigation, resilience, equity, and safety for all users. In the United States, 1 in 5 miles of highways and major roads, and 45,000 bridges, are in poor condition. The legislation will reauthorize surface transportation programs for five years and invest $110 billion in additional funding to repair our roads and bridges and support major, transformational projects. The Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal makes the single largest investment in repairing and reconstructing our nation’s bridges since the construction of the interstate highway system. It will rebuild the most economically significant bridges in the country as well as thousands of smaller bridges. The legislation also includes the first ever Safe Streets and Roads for All program to support projects to reduce traffic fatalities, which claimed more than 20,000 lives in the first half of 2021.

We will soon have a chicken in every pot and smooth roads just as soon as we can find where we stored those shovels we used in the shovel-ready projects.