what state has the worst roads?

[WalterMitty]

consider everything...crumbling infrastructure, lack of roads, bad traffic patterns, congestion etc.

[Virginian87]

West Virginia

I would say Massachusetts because the Big Dig completely screwed up Boston's traffic patterns, but that's over and done with.

[minionofmidas]

Rural parts of Alaska must have fairly hideous roads.

[J-Mann]

Certainly Missouri, at least as far as the states I've been to are concerned.  Upstate New York also had some rough patches, if I remember correctly.

[Bleeding heart conservative, HTMLdon]

Arkansas

[J. J.]

In terms of well populated areas, Western Pennsylvania.

[Bandit3 the Worker]

If you can't afford a car, Kentucky and Ohio probably have some of the worst. There's hardly any accommodations for bicyclists in these states.

If you do have a car, however, Kentucky has probably some of the better roads.

[Dave from Michigan]

Michigan, but they have got singnifantly  better over the last 6 years.  The State has been spending lots of money.  I don't drive through other states that much to know about the conditions of there roads.  Over the last 2 years they have been fixing the roads downtown for the SuperBowl.

[Hatman 🍁]

Quebec has the worst roads in North America.

[Swing low, sweet chariot. Comin' for to carry me home.]

I-10 through New Mexico is horrible.  But Texas has great highways.

[danwxman]

West Virginia

Are you kidding? West Virginia has great roads. There's so many four lane roads that are way too big its ridiculous. Thank you Robert Byrd.

[danwxman]

I would have to agree with Western Pennsylvania and rural Alaska.

[Platypus]

Sorry, fellas (and non-fellas), but the Northern Territory has you all beat.

This is it's most important road:

[KillerPollo]

Chiapas is pretty trashy as well

[KEmperor]

Alabama.

[7,052,770]

EXTREMELY strangley, it's not Mississippi.

For a good example, think of highway 98.  It's a nice 4-lane road in MS and turns into a crappy 2-lane blacktop when you get in Alabama.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

In terms of well populated areas, Western Pennsylvania.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

[YRABNNRM]

Dirt Roads > Paved Roads.


I really am living in the wrong state.

[nlm]

Western PA. There isn't anywhere I've seen like it. It's like Alabama with a freeze/thaw cycle that rips the roads apart.

[KEmperor]

EXTREMELY strangley, it's not Mississippi.

For a good example, think of highway 98.  It's a nice 4-lane road in MS and turns into a crappy 2-lane blacktop when you get in Alabama.

I agree.  Mississippi's roads are not the best in the nation, but therre is a very clear decline in quality when you cross the border into Alabama.

[minionofmidas]

Western PA. There isn't anywhere I've seen like it. It's like Alabama with a freeze/thaw cycle that rips the roads apart.

In other words, they're probably a lot like roads in rural Alberta. They're pretty crappy too.
(Oh, and not to forget - in Germany, the answer is clearly Mecklenburg-Lower Pomerania.)

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Most Pennine roads are pretty bad

[Bono]

Here it's pretty much every road in the Northeast, except the few freeways they've done recently, but that's pretty not borderline northeast.