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01-14-2004, 11:42 PM
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Location: Toronto
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TORONTO HAS THE WORST ROADS!!
first i will start off with last year for about a week there was and inch of snow all around the city, solid, u would slip on your ass every 10sec, and this year the road are soo slushy with a thin layer of compacted snow to make it like ice, i have almost been killed 2 times today (mostly because people in suv think they can drive fast on the snow because they have an suv *doesn't mean u can go fast*)
anyone else in the toronto area notice this, when i go to montreal or new york or even kingston the roads are so much better, word of advice to everyone DO NOT VISIT TORONTO IN THE WINTER!
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01-15-2004, 12:00 AM
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Location: Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA/ Bloomington, IN, USA
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You lose...Detroit is even worse. The roads are so pitted and scarred that they regularly eat car wheels for breakfast, bend the crap out of them. In the winter downtown, the city is too poor and has too few plow trucks to do an adequate job, so when we get snow, the plow trucks don't do the side streets...which makes driving anything that doesn't have at least 6-8 inches of ground clearance a real pain in the ass, if you can move it in the first place.
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01-15-2004, 12:08 AM
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Location: Ontario, Canada
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Ancaster where I live used to have absolutely amazing snow removal. They would have the snow gone before you even noticed it was there. But then we became part of Hamilton and the taxes went up as the services went down. Now they never plow my road. Only the main ones, and they're slow at that too. I dont mind too much tho, I can slide around on the snow and its fun
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01-15-2004, 12:55 AM
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Location: Waterloo Engineering / Oshawa / Toronto
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Ya your right! I had so much fun in the snow today - turning hard on a snowy road is so fun! I gotta find me an empty parking lot.
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01-15-2004, 12:56 AM
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Location: Managua, Nicaragua
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HAHAH LOL...you are ALL wrong...you should see the roads here!...you can't even call them roads...
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01-15-2004, 02:39 AM
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toronto's not so bad, i will say that i think they should salt the roads and sidewalks a little more often tho
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01-15-2004, 02:40 AM
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Location: California
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i thought calis roads were bad...we may have the 2nd worst roads lol
its amazing when u cross the border to AZ or nevada..all the sudden the car stops shaking and sings dont look like some crack baby hung them with a shoe for a hammer =)
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01-15-2004, 03:55 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Atlanta
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HAH, I've got you all beat (well, maybe not Chaos in 1983!). New Orleans is built completely on a swamp, so nearly every road is completely broken up; with cracks, pot holes big enough to store tires in, and miniature drop offs that seem more like steps than part of a road.
Everything sinks into the ground in N.O., when we got our house leveled the front of the house was 16 inches lower than the back of the house (in a 100ft long shotgun house)! Imagine what this would do to a road and you'll know what the roads are like in N.O. In some neighborhoods you are forced to drive at 5mph or risk bottoming out...and when it rains these roads flood very easily because the entire city is below sea level, its a bowl.
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01-15-2004, 05:23 AM
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i have to say that "härjedalen" a part of northern sweden has the worst road in the world, first there is only ONE road through the hole place and its not a city its a region. in the winter there is tons of snow and all that and in the summer you cant drive either because the road gets crackd by the frosen ground and its VERY bumpy!
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01-15-2004, 07:46 AM
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Location: Miskolc, Hungary
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Have you ever been in Romania? 
There are no roads... There are traps!!
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01-15-2004, 08:54 AM
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Location: Lithuania
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Just drive to Russia and you will see.
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01-17-2004, 01:36 AM
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Location: Guadalajara, Mexico
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ok, ok, everyone has their own "worst roads of the world"
I think, IMO, first we should thank that we have "roads", with awful asphalt, concrete, whatever.
of course the human nature is to always ask for more (if u have a compact car, now you'll want a sports coupe, then a saloon car, then an... and continues on)
here in mexico roads aren't the best thing, an old joke is, translated loses a lot of meaning, sorry: in mexico, the streets are of first..., not class, gear!. With all the traffic jams, holes, bad road conditions and so on, you can't go faster than 40 km/hr
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01-17-2004, 02:08 AM
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Location: Houston but from Mty
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it clearly shows no one has gone to mexico...
if someone goes he will know what im talking about... well of coarse it depends where you go, if you go in the good part of mexico it is a little better...
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02-03-2004, 04:42 PM
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Location: Back to Greece-working
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Probably non of you have been to Greece
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02-04-2004, 12:17 AM
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I'm with toronto on this one. On the worst day (you'll know which one I'm talking about), I was with a friend in his car, and we came over a hill that was so slippery the car wouldn't slow down no matter what. He was hard on the brakes, but with all the work the ABS was doing, the car still sped up.
Long story short, he's getting some body work done soon.
The same night I got to drive a Jeep TJ, and it was nuts. First gear, four wheels spinning. Second, same thing. Third, same thing. The understeer was so bad that unless I completely got off the gas, it would sometimes go the opposite direction from where I was turning the wheel. Just treacherous.
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