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Just got back from a road trip, Toledo, OH to Huntsville, AL, and back.

Fun facts:

Approx 550 miles one way, 1100 round trip.

Approx 200 miles in Ohio one way, 400 Ohio miles round trip.

We saw 16 Ohio Highway Patrolmen pulling people over on the way down last Thursday, 10 on the way back, for a total of 26 pull-overs in Ohio, round trip.

We saw 0 police in every other states on the way down, and 1 on the way back up, for a total of 1 cop in every other state than Ohio, combined. In other states we didn't see Doof Warrior and Furiosa going between the Citadel, Gas Town, and the Bullet Farm. Everything seemed fine, actually.

In Ohio there is a 50 mile stretch of I-75 under construction, for 100 construction miles round-trip.

In other states, I-75, I-71, and I-64, there were 8 miles total construction, in all states combined.

In conclusion, it sucks to be at the ass-end of a long road trip and just fucking dread coming to your home state because of all their fucking bullshit.

There was a metric fuckton of cops patrolling M50 in Michigan this weekend too.

People don't know this, but the state or local community is responsible for increased police presence. They file for grants from the feds for money to pay for additional cops on the streets for specific tasks like enforcing traffic laws on holiday weekends.

Only been to Ohio a few times, remember the roads being awful every time.

Winter and paying half your state to not have jobs will do that.

Amazingly, we're not the worst.

Michigan and Pennsylvania routinely have the country's worst roads.

The universe was trying to snuff me today.

I go out to run errands. I'm turning left onto a state route, I have the green light. I'm half way into my turn and I hear tires kinda/sorta squealing, I'm wondering wtf was that, is it on the radio? I looked and some bitch in a minivan ran the red and her anti-locks were chirping as she tried to not hit me. It looked close.

10 minutes later, in town, I see an accident occur about 100 yards in front of me. One of the lanes of traffic is blocked.

10 minutes after that I finished up one of my errands, I'm pulling out of the place, and I see another accident occur about 100 yards away from me.

20 minutes after that, I finish up another chore and I'm leaving, and the intersection is blocked because another accident just happened.

I managed to make it home though. Score.

GORDON wrote:The universe was trying to snuff me today.

Completely untrue as I did not authorize that action.

So... Malcolm, why are your people's roads as bad as Ohio's?

TheCatt wrote:So... Malcolm, why are your people's roads as bad as Ohio's?

I assume you mean the state. Two reasons chiefly:

1) The temperature flux between summer and winter kills because way too much moisture seeps into the material and expands when it gets cold.

2) When roads aren't buried under snow and ice, they're buried under shitty, slow, constant construction that gives the streets a perpetual raw feel plus a healthy supply of traffic jams and nonsensical detours.

Wisconsin didn't have that problem. I'm just going to assume the people of Minnesota are retarded.

TheCatt wrote:Wisconsin didn't have that problem. I'm just going to assume the people of Minnesota are retarded.

There's a reason a buddy of mine used to call it "The People's Republic of Minnesota." MNDoT is full of fucking morons. You might remember their past work.

Your (Malcolm's) state still sucks, part 2.

Crossing back?

Yah. Staying the night in St. Paul, near the river. Actually kinda nice here. But the roads suck ass.

Hah. Stop by for a drink.

If we had more time. On the way to Grandma's house.

How I feel about Minnesota roads



Actually, my wife says Ohio was worse last year when they drove to Michigan.,

Michigan makes everything worse.

I thought you lived in Michigan, Malcolm?

TPRJones wrote:I thought you lived in Michigan, Malcolm?

I've never set foot in that godforsaken hellhole.

Huh. I wonder where I got that impression .... Weird.