What's the worst stretch of highway in America????

[displacedyankeedem]

My vote: I-95 in Northern Va going into DC

However a girl on my sister hall from Orange County, CA swears it's the 405.

[ScreamingMeemie]

1. I-94 through Detroit.

Worst. Ever. I have suffered from 10 flat tires due to pot holes. And they are constantly under construction...with no visible improvement.

[patriotvoice]

9. I second this motion...

... or lack thereof when a 94 pothole eats your tire.

[noonwitch]

57. 3rd vote for 1-94

What a mess, it never seems to get better, no matter how many repairs they do. It needs to be completely torn up and new concrete needs to be laid.
Thank the Gods for 1-696, one of the best roads around.

[JaySherman]

2. The stretch of I-95 through southern CT to Hartford.

Always under construction and imo CT drivers are worse than even MA or NJ drivers. The scariest road rage incident I've ever had was on that road. Guy followed us into a rest stop. I-80 from Akron to Cleveland, OH is like that too. I remember driving out to my college for the first time and having to follow my parents through it at night. Not fun.

[mobuto]

22. Agreed - that's even worse than I-95 in Northern Virginia

and that's not easy.

[Nile]

50. Another vote for I-95 in Southern Connecticut.

Been closed for a couple of days now because of a tanker accident.

[thom1102]

54. One more vote for I-95 in Southern Connecticut.

Almost totalled my car there a few years back.

[bigwillq]

72. I-95 for sure

I live near New Haven and use 95 North and South alot and it's always a mess. Now, with this fire that happened near Bridgeport it seems everywhere in this state is a parking lot.

CT gets it from both ends with NY to the South, Boston and Providence to the North and East and even up through Hartford is a nightmare.

[russian33]

64. Couldn't agree more...

I live in NYC, and visit family in CT regularly...I-95 between NY and through CT sucks, and for the past 10 years that I've been driving on it, it always sucked!

[napsi]

3. I-70

Thru Kansas.....I fell asleep one time around 2am.....woke up a few moments later in a cow field doing 65.....the highway was about 100 yards away....damn lucky. It's a lonely stretch of road.....

[PinkTiger]

10. So----is that why they call you

Napsi???

[JaySherman]

13. LOL *rimshot*

[LTR]

60. Boring is not necessarily bad

One of the best drives ever was I-80 across Nebraska. It was boring as hell, but average traffic speed was about 90MPH and there were no state troopers between Colorado and Lincoln.

It made driving that boring, desolate state worthwhile.

I-90 is another highway across a boring state (South Dakota). But I tip my hat off to SoDak. At least they billboard the entire state advertising silly roadside attractions (Wall Drug, Corn Palace, Elvis Museum, etc.). A very kitschy driving experience.

[BlueEyedSon]

4. BQE

followed closely by the Belt Parkway

[theoceansnerves]

5. US 101

anywhere it runs in l.a. county.

405 aint too grand either.

[CastorTroy]

6. In Houston, Texas: State Hwy 225

This cuts through lovely Pasedena, Texas. The air is literally saturated with chemicals because the entire landscape is one, un-ending chemical plant/refinary.

[Blue_State_Elitist]

7. Hahaha

Come out to OC or LA. You'll be glad to return to your I-95.

[Blue_State_Elitist]

11. Oh yeah

Where the 101 and the 405 meet is the worst bottlneck ever. It's hell any time of the week. The 405 and the 10 is bad, the 10 and the 5 is bad, the 405 and 605 is shit, the infamous orange crush where the 5/22/57 meet is terrible too. Those are just a few places to avoid in So Cal.

[PinkTiger]

8. U.S. 71 South of Joplin Mo. to Shreveport, La.

This is one of the deadliest roadways, with many deaths and accidents. Some work is being done to widen the road where it is two lane in Missouri, but to date the efforts to widen it south of Fort Smith, Ark. have stalled for lack of funds.

[CO Liberal]

12. US 22 in Union, New Jersey

When it was State Highway 29 back in the '30s, businesses sprang up on both sides of the highway. So when they decided to widen the highway after WWII, they built new eastbound lanes a few hundred feet away from the existing highway.

Today, there are businesses on both sides of Route 22 AND IN THE MEDIAN!! It's a real nightmare, especially during the Christmas shopping season.

[JaySherman]

16. How about Rte 1 & 9 in Woodbridge?

Been under contruction for as long as I can remember.

[CO Liberal]

They STILL Haven't Finished It????

Mrs. CO Liberal and I left NJ in 1994, and it was under construction then....

[JaySherman]

21. I lived in NJ until last year.

It was still under construction when I left in August. Didn't look like they were anywhere near finishing it anytime soon.

[papau]

47. when did 17 become driveable north of Newark

:grr:

[JaySherman]

49. Forgot about that one...

I avoided the roads in that area whenever possible. Come to think of it, all of northeastern Jersey is hell to drive. Rts 46, 24, 10, 17, I-80, 280, 78. What a nightmare, especially during rush hour.

[rocktivity]

61. I avoid Route 22 completely,

and I live on the Irvington-Hillside NJ border! It's always a bottleneck going east past the Garden State Parkway. Don't even shop there--I stay on the parkways and shop at the stores in Clark or Woodbridge.

:headbang:
rocknation

[CO Liberal]

66. I Went to School in Union in the Early '70s

The DeVry Technical Institute was on Morris Avenue back then - in front of Union High School, and right next to the Tuscan dairy. I did a lot of driving on Route 22 back then, epecially in the stretch around the Flagship.

[displacedyankeedem]

14. Some other highways to hell

These are only the ones I've seen.......
I-85/75 through Atlanta, I-280 into San Francisco from San Jose

[JaySherman]

18. I-380 from Stroudsburg to Scranton, PA

Not for the traffic but because it has to be the dreariest stretch of road in America. My Dad and I used to drive that way to go fishing upstate all the time. We swore the sun never shined once when we on that road.

[Cleita]

19. Oh yeah, that one really sucks too.

eom

[DemoTex]

15. I-95 from Richmond to DC

The worst!

[Cleita]

17. Highway 95 in Idaho.

It's the only road that connects the north of the state to the south, yet it's narrow, full of potholes (last time I drove over it in 1999)and has 10% grades (scary, scary and very scenic). Even the Repuke Governor of Idaho calls it a goat track. Truckers who need to deliver from north to south have to take a detour through Washington state because it's so dangerous.

My second choice is highway 50 that cuts across Nevada. Miles and miles of nada. Make sure you have a double tank for gas and load food up in the cooler, because there is nada.

On edit: Got my Hwy. #'s mixed up.

[Endangered Specie]

20. In NC, I-40 around the RTP... more

also there is I-440 loop, or as we call it the "Raleigh Autobahn"

[mobuto]

23. The Cross-Bronx Expressway

Although there are any of a dozen highways within the city of New York that could easily compete. Outside of New York City? Well that's tough. But you wouldn't have to look far. The Garden State Parkway, just outside the City. Or maybe the Jersey Turnpike.

[camero]

46. Don't forget the Long Island Expressway

In Brooklyn. Bumpy as hell.

[gyopsy]

24. I-4 near Tampa

They literally call it: "Bloody I-4"

[camero]

25. I 12 in Louisiana

I hope they got that one fixed. If they have I would say I40 between Memphis and Little Rock.

[bubblesby2002]

34. Reading about all the places to avoid is very educational

You must have done a lot of driving.:hi:

[camero]

35. Too much ( not really)

:hi: Over 1 million miles. Lots of kidney shots on I12. :)

[coloradodem2005]

26. Mine.

I-25 in Denver near the Tech center.

[JVS]

27. What no US routes?

[Cleita]

29. No, the interstates are still working.

I doubt it in the future though.

[camero]

30. I think they fixed US287

between Lamar, CO and Lamon?, CO

[Penndems]

28. I-66 in Northern Virginia

Also known as "Route 666".

I-81 in South Central PA is notorious, too. Like I-95 in NoVa, no day is complete without a major accident.

[arewethereyet]

31. I-95 through Philly

[starroute]

32. Route 22 going north of Allentown and Bethlehem

I've never been quite sure what was so especially awful about it, aside from being narrow and overcrowded. But there used to be billboards put up by the Teamsters a little ways west of Allentown, warning truckers that they continued on Route 22 at their own risk.

And when the government extended I-78 through this area, they did much of the work by upgrading Route 22. But when they got to the Allentown/Bethlehem section, they avoided Route 22 like the plague and built a completely new road that detoured well south of both cities and then swung north again to rejoin Route 22 at Easton.

[JVS]

36. I have been told to avoid route 22 in the Eastern half of PA

[Gman]

33. Hands down... I35 San Antonio to Dallas

250 miles of 80 mph bumper to bumper with bumper to bumper 18-wheelers.

[GOPisEvil]

55. It's worse at night!

It's all semi, all the time. :scared:

[amandabeech]

37. Done NYC. Done NJ. Done DC. Done I-81 in S. CEN. PA.

Done I-95 Richmond to Boston (Man, do I HATE Bridgeport!) Done I-94 in Detroit in the Ditch (where my friends and I ran out of gas at 2 a.m. on a Saturday night in 1976 coming back from a Jeff-Jack dinner in Mt. Clemens).

AND THEY'RE ALL B-A-D !!!!

My worst fear, though, is the Pulaski Skyway going into Chicago from N. Indiana. I'm always afraid that I'll fall right off the thing and into Gary or Calumet.

[SmileyBoy]

38. I-29 in Eastern North Dakota.

Hell, the whole fucking thing from Sioux Falls to Winnipeg is a flat bore.

The surrounding topography is so flat, and the road so straight, you could put your car on auto-pilot and take a nap from Wahpeton to the Canadian Border.

I once drove from Fargo to Grand Forks (75 miles) in 45 minutes, because it's just that easy.

[camero]

40. Except when it's snowing.

:) The towns people are pretty nice though in Grand Forks and Pembina.

[SmileyBoy]

41. Well yeah, I was driving in October.

I had tickets for the final Bison/Sioux football game, and I overslept. I made a bee-line to Grand Forks just in time for halftime.:D

[camero]

43. The thing I noticed there

Is that they wanted the trucks in the left lane for about 35 miles. Probably because they wanted the semis in the ditch and not the cars. :)

[SmileyBoy]

44. I-29 during a blizzard is the worst possible place to be.

I-29 is only good for April-October driving for me, thank you.

[SmileyBoy]

39. It's not the US, but I almost died of torture on the 401 north of Toronto.

NEVER, EVER drive into Toronto on the 401 on the first day of a civic holiday weekend. BUMPER TO BUMPER FOR OVER 50 MILES. Drive straight out of Barrie, and BAM!!! Traffic Jam city.

[TXlib]

42. The Hershey Highway!

[SmileyBoy]

48. Isn't that a euphemism for the rectum???

:D:D:D

[camero]

45. AAAH I forgot US 666

http://www.kevinmoloney.com/recent/Route/666A.html





A sign for recently-renamed U.S. Highway 666 stands alongside the road south of Cortez, Colo. New Mexico governor Bill Richardson, along with the states of Colorado and Utah, petitioned the federal government to change the number of the road. Native Americans from around the region had long argued the devilish connection contributed to traffic deaths on the highway.

They should fix the road if they want to reduce the traffic fatalities.

[RebelOne]

51. I-75 going through Atlanta

[Dees]

52. I-44 coming out of St. Louis heading south.

Based on pure volume and speed.

[Red State Rebel]

62. Once you get past the city it's a beautiful drive thru the state.

The hills and Ozark Mountains are beautiful, particularly in the fall.

[Dees]

73. Right.Once past Six Flags/Eureka it is beautiful indeed.

[skippysmom]

53. Most of the highways around Chicago

People driving like maniacs...and then slamming on their brakes and merging into 3 lanes to drop $0.35 in the toll every few miles.

Ditto the Garden State in Jersey.

[displacedyankeedem]

65. I've heard bad things about the Dan Ryan Expressway

.....very bad things.

[Blue-Jay]

68. Correct! The Dan Ryan is veddy veddy bad.

Nothin' say "lovin'" like a huge pothole at 80 MPH.

[LDS Jock]

56. The 405 is unbelievable

Back to back traffic at all hours of the day. For the most boring, I 70 from Kansas City to Denver. Flat prairie land for ten hours.

[LTR]

58. Locally...

The US45 parking lot on the northwest side of Milwaukee.

And any highway with traffic lights on the oncoming ramps.

[LWolf]

59. I vote the 138 in So CA.

known locally as "death alley."

Two lanes through the desert, shoulders too soft to pull over, and drivers willing to drive oncoming traffic off into the desert or risk head-on collisions to pass as they race to Vegas or back.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

63. I-95 from Jersey to Boston...it's like driving on a big friggin washboard!

[geniph]

67. It depends on the time of year

some are worse in summer (high tourist season), and there's some white-knuckle terrors in winter.

My pick would be the Alcan Highway, though - not for traffic, for the number of tires you'll go through.

[NightTrain]

69. Having driven I-95 from Florida to Connecticut, it damn sure gets my vote!

Christ, what a hellstrip! :scared:

[nini]

70. As someone who drives the freaking 405 every day..

I'm gonna say the 405.

a moving parking lot I tell ya!

[northofdenali]

71. The Seward Highway heading south out of Anchorage

to Girdwood. Very narrow, twisting road with the Turnagain Arm on one side a mountains on the other. Nobody drives that road at less than 70, there are very few pullouts for slower vehicles to allow others to pass - it is HAIRY, particularly on a bike!

[Wolfman 11]

74. US 212 from Belle Fourche, SD to Broadus, MT

Actually it is kind of beautiful in a desolate sort of way. But when I drove it the last 30 miles or so was just mud.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

75. I-95 in CT right around Bridgeport --the damn bridge MELTED!!!

That's bad. Plus, Bridgeport ain't to pretty!