Worst maintained County road networks

[Max Rockatansky]

In California the worst maintained County road network in terms of road maintenance is San Benito County.  San Benito County has major highways such as County Route J1/Panoche Road which haven't been resurfaced in close to half a century.  San Benito County also has an active roadway (Salinas Road) which consists of barely patched First State Highway Bond Act era concrete (former US 101).  Much of the major San Benito County roads are single lane dirt and have long abandoned segments. 

Are there any other standouts like San Benito County in other states?

[JREwing78]

Calhoun County, Michigan is a standout for poor pavement quality. On some county-maintained roads, there's far more cold-patch than actual remaining asphalt.

[NWI_Irish96]

Of the Indiana counties where I've traveled extensively on county roads, Marshall County has the worst roads.

[Rothman]

Probably not the worst county in NY (maybe Nassau or Suffolk would be the winners there in their inability to get projects done), but Onondaga County put their Loop the (Onondaga) Lake Trail as the highest priority a couple of years ago.  Not the best decision from the perspective of the highway/bridge network, I don't think.

[Flint1979]

Worst in Michigan is probably Wayne or Genesee. They have been getting better at fixing the roads around here though.

[bassoon1986]

Natchitoches Parish in Louisiana, although I'm sure there are others. Most are dilapidated, no grading, no ditch for proper run off.

There's a Facebook group devoted to them:






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[LilianaUwU]

Natchitoches Parish in Louisiana, although I'm sure there are others. Most are dilapidated, no grading, no ditch for proper run off.

There's a Facebook group devoted to them:

(ruined roads)

These are somehow worse than my hometown!!

[Max Rockatansky]

Natchitoches Parish in Louisiana, although I'm sure there are others. Most are dilapidated, no grading, no ditch for proper run off.

There's a Facebook group devoted to them:






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What road is in the second pic?

[bassoon1986]

Natchitoches Parish in Louisiana, although I'm sure there are others. Most are dilapidated, no grading, no ditch for proper run off.

There's a Facebook group devoted to them:






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What road is in the second pic?

Bumgardner Rd in Ashland, LA


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[NoGoodNamesAvailable]

For NJ, my vote goes to Essex. The worst thing they are guilty of is not resetting the height of the manholes after paving. The pavement will be brand new and perfectly smooth but with manholes sitting 3 inches below the pavement surface that you have to swerve around like a maniac

[andrepoiy]

I can't say for sure which county/regional municipality has the worst roads in Ontario because I haven't driven in every county, so therefore I can't make a sound judgement. However, I can judge based on the places I have driven enough in.

Generally, the jurisdictions in the Greater Toronto Area (including City of Toronto, Durham Region, York Region, Peel Region, Halton Region) have satisfactory to good roads.

However, now that I've moved to Kingston, Ontario for college, I have realized that Kingston roads are generally worse compared to the Greater Toronto area.

I can also say that one particular heavily-travelled county road stood out to me, because of how fucking bad it was. That is Prince Edward County Road 49. I later found out that CR49 was rated the worst road in Ontario by the CAA for many years.

[LilianaUwU]

Speaking of the roads in my hometown... the roads in Les ÃŽles de la Madeleine are ruined, and only after I and a few other people became vocal about the revolting state of the roads did some of them get repaired.

I'm wondering why the MTQ doesn't take over some of those roads, as their roads are usually top quality (except for the road through downtown, which is harder to maintain due to around 100k tourists going back and forth on it during summer).

[Mr. Matté]

For NJ, my vote goes to Essex. The worst thing they are guilty of is not resetting the height of the manholes after paving.

From my cycling throughout Central Jersey (and pandemic drives throughout the whole state), it seems all of the agencies (state, counties, municipalities) never seem to spend the time to reset the manholes and inlets. (except of course for the projects where my company is the municipal engineer and I do the plan work 🙂)

In CJ, Monmouth seems to let their roads go to complete crap before considering repaving. Also on another 👎 to them, there's no central location where they state where they (in all reality, the contactors doing the work as they don't do in-house resurfacing) announce resurfacing. If I'm lucky, I might read on some town's Nixle that a road might be redone.