Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site spuxll.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!spuxll!npl From: npl@spuxll.UUCP (Nick Landsberg) Newsgroups: net.auto Subject: Re: Best Roads Message-ID: <741@spuxll.UUCP> Date: Fri, 25-Oct-85 16:49:56 EDT Article-I.D.: spuxll.741 Posted: Fri Oct 25 16:49:56 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 26-Oct-85 04:45:21 EDT References: <526@phri.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Information Systems, South Plainfield NJ Lines: 13 I do not have a candidate for best road, but, being originally from the NY Metro area, I nominate ANY so-called highway/expressway therein for WORST. The worst of the worst has to be the Belt Parkway in Brooklyn. Reasons: Narrow lanes, potholes, steel plates covering the larger potholes (sometimes with sharp edges, a real treat for your new tires.), and a maintenance program which is a joke. Instead of re-paving, NYC re-surfaces the roads. The underlying concrete has long ago crumbled but they keep adding more asphalt on top. Said treatment makes the ride marginally smoother for about 3-6 months, but in the end it is just as bad, if not worse. Those who drive the route daily can expect to change their shocks ~ every 6 months.