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I wonder if anyone shares my frustration with the quality of the roadways in New York City. Not only the road quality is terrible by any standard but it's been getting worse over the past few years. I only drive on weekends but truly hate the endless potholes and bumps. Many streets in Manhattan are in desperate need of resurfacing. But even after they resurface the roads, the quality of that work in the city seems to be very poor, because the roads here degrade in quality quickly, unlike those in the suburbs. Every time you cross the city border by car from Westchester, NJ or Long Island, you "feel it".
I wrote to the NYC Department of Transportation and the Mayor's office several times. Predictably, I only got automated replies.
I wonder why the "greatest city in the world" cannot maintain its roads in decent shape (in addition to its subways and other forms of transportation) while spending millions in city, state and federal funds?
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Many streets in Manhattan are in desperate need of resurfacing. But even after they resurface the roads, the quality of that work in the city seems to be very poor, because the roads here degrade in quality quickly, unlike those in the suburbs. Every time you cross the city border by car from Westchester, NJ or Long Island, you "feel it".
Have you ever contemplated the difference in amount of traffic between Manhattan and a suburb?
Manhattan roads are pretty bad but I think the Bronx and Brooklyn are at a tie for that. Sometimes when I drive in certain neighborhoods I am always bumping and bumping HARD. ahahah
A few days back I was driving in Manhattan when a brand new red Ferrari with extra low profile tires stopped next to me at a red light. Then, he turned right and I could hear the screeching of his front spoiler over the pavement. I smiled to myself and that was perhaps the single time when I was happy that car wasn't mine'
As for the roads, they are a shame as many other infrastructure parts in NY. A fried that just returned from Afghanistan told me that roads in Kabul are in better shape
I always ask myself what the extra expensive car owners do with their $250,000 cars in Manhattan...
Actually back in the late 1970's the roads in NYC where literally 100 times worse. So bad you couldn't speed anywhere because it was one pothole after another. People back then would come to NJ and the regular roads here where like a different country to them.
Nowadays I actually find the roads of lower Manhattan in better shape than the nearby roads of NJ, maybe since NJ is reconstructing a bit of its highways, but even the LIE pavement has been in decent shape lately. It seems to be a cyclical thing.
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Sometimes I commute through eastern Queens on Hempstead Ave to get home on Long Island. The road is terrible in Queens, but smooths out so much once you hit Nassau county.
At least they finally paved the Grand Central parkway. It took them long enough! Now they can say it's smoother than it is on Long Island, lol. I doubt it will stay that nice for that long though.
Why don't we, the concerned citizens, spend 1 minute and drop a line to the Commissioner of NYC Department of Transportation to let her know about the poor state of the roads in our neighborhoods:
It's the way NYC paves their roads or fixes the potholes. When a pothole happens, they don't repave the entire section, they simply fill in the pothole, and they do it over and over again. Add in the harsh winters and the heavy traffic and it becomes pothole city.
Driving in NYC, you either get the tickets or the potholes, or both.
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