Anyone else HATE the 101 expansion project as much as me?

[johnp292]

Originally Posted by azriverfan.

With all due respect, this is another example of Phoenix residents complaining about nothing and failing to recognize how nice they have it. Go to South Florida in the Miami metropolitan area and the freeways there are peeling and have potholes and are extremely narrow. They have construction as well. The freeways in Phoenix are some of the best in the country with the rubberized asphalt. You don't even hear the road when you travel on it and the lanes are nice and wide. This is just another example of Phoenix residents being ridiculously spoiled, out of touch with reality and trying to complain about something that really isn't an issue. It's just human nature, when life is good, you have to find something to complain about. Okay, now the let the heat threads and anti-summer threads start.

Couldn't agree more (as usual!). Try years of driving in NY/NJ/PA and then tell me how "bad" the roads are here. Construction projects there go on forever. PennDOT (PA) can't plan properly to save their lives. They would routinely do major construction projects on multiple main arteries through the same areas (at least in NEPA anyway) leaving you no alternative routes. They'd do things like resurface a highway a month before they were going to tear it up for another project, or leave one lane of a two lane highway closed for miles and miles before a tiny work zone even on days when there was no work being done.

Don't any of you drive in CA? We travel to SoCal once or twice a year and I travel to the Bay Area for work and I hate the roads in that state.

I don't regularly drive on the 101 other than occasionally on the weekends so I can't comment on the construction project, but I love the roads around Phoenix compared to anywhere else I've driven.

[man4857]

Originally Posted by azriverfan.

With all due respect, this is another example of Phoenix residents complaining about nothing and failing to recognize how nice they have it. Go to South Florida in the Miami metropolitan area and the freeways there are peeling and have potholes and are extremely narrow. They have construction as well. The freeways in Phoenix are some of the best in the country with the rubberized asphalt. You don't even hear the road when you travel on it and the lanes are nice and wide. This is just another example of Phoenix residents being ridiculously spoiled, out of touch with reality and trying to complain about something that really isn't an issue. It's just human nature, when life is good, you have to find something to complain about. Okay, now the let the heat threads and anti-summer threads start.

I second this, as a resident moving from LA. If anyone has driven on LA freeways, they are HORRIBLE compared to what Phoenix has and this doesn't count the traffic you'll encounter. A little construction is a minor inconvenience, it's temporary, it'll go away eventually.

[madison999]

I've lived in the upper rust belt including Chicago. I know what **** roads are. Doesn't mean Phoenix should aspire to be like them.

No thank you on the race to the bottom.

[madison999]

Originally Posted by johnp292

Couldn't agree more (as usual!). Try years of driving in NY/NJ/PA and then tell me how "bad" the roads are here. Construction projects there go on forever. PennDOT (PA) can't plan properly to save their lives. They would routinely do major construction projects on multiple main arteries through the same areas (at least in NEPA anyway) leaving you no alternative routes. They'd do things like resurface a highway a month before they were going to tear it up for another project, or leave one lane of a two lane highway closed for miles and miles before a tiny work zone even on days when there was no work being done.

Don't any of you drive in CA? We travel to SoCal once or twice a year and I travel to the Bay Area for work and I hate the roads in that state.

I don't regularly drive on the 101 other than occasionally on the weekends so I can't comment on the construction project, but I love the roads around Phoenix compared to anywhere else I've driven.

So you can't comment...but you will comment anyway. Awesome.