Tell me about Minnesota

[knke0204]

Originally Posted by rodentraiser

Minnesota would be a lot nicer if they just fixed some of the main roads. Yeah, I know what winter and studded tires do to a road, but seriously?

What are you talking about?

[Unsettomati]

Originally Posted by rodentraiser

Minnesota would be a lot nicer if they just fixed some of the main roads. Yeah, I know what winter and studded tires do to a road, but seriously?

First, studded tires are not a thing here.

Second, have you never noticed that in Minnesota roadway maintenance is never-ending? It is, and it shows.

1. Minnesota. Score: 9.10 / 10
Minnesota came 1st and ranked as the best place to drive in the country. The vast majority (85.1%) of this mid-western state’s roads are well maintained, and it has a very low highway fatality rate of 0.61 (per 100 million vehicle miles traveled).

https://zutobi.com/us/driver-guides/...oads-in-the-us

[lookingaround12345]

Originally Posted by rodentraiser

Minnesota would be a lot nicer if they just fixed some of the main roads. Yeah, I know what winter and studded tires do to a road, but seriously?

As far as I know studded tires aren't legal in MN.

[rodentraiser]

Originally Posted by Unsettomati

First, studded tires are not a thing here.

Second, have you never noticed that in Minnesota roadway maintenance is never-ending? It is, and it shows.


https://zutobi.com/us/driver-guides/...oads-in-the-us

Road maintenance is never ending everywhere. I think it's called job security.

OK, so it's been a long, long while since I was back there. I'm just remembering how awful the roads were in terms of pot holes and lack of lines painted on the road, etc, etc. When I drove back to Washington, because it was me after all, I guess I managed to find the only road where they had apparently taken off the top layer of asphalt for miles and miles (no road maintenance in sight). I really think that was Minnesota getting a final kick at me before I left.

And I just have to add, it's hard to have a high highway fatality rate when the top layer of asphalt is gone from the road and you can only go 35 mph! lol

[huitrecouture]

Originally Posted by rodentraiser

Road maintenance is never ending everywhere. I think it's called job security.

OK, so it's been a long, long while since I was back there. I'm just remembering how awful the roads were in terms of pot holes and lack of lines painted on the road, etc, etc. When I drove back to Washington, because it was me after all, I guess I managed to find the only road where they had apparently taken off the top layer of asphalt for miles and miles (no road maintenance in sight). I really think that was Minnesota getting a final kick at me before I left.

And I just have to add, it's hard to have a high highway fatality rate when the top layer of asphalt is gone from the road and you can only go 35 mph! lol

So on a thread bumped 13 years later, for some unknown reason, you contribute a falsehood based on your memory of being there "a long long while ago"....

With the clincher being after complaining about poor road maintenance you conclude "never ending road maintenance is called job security".

[knke0204]

Originally Posted by rodentraiser

Road maintenance is never ending everywhere. I think it's called job security.

OK, so it's been a long, long while since I was back there. I'm just remembering how awful the roads were in terms of pot holes and lack of lines painted on the road, etc, etc. When I drove back to Washington, because it was me after all, I guess I managed to find the only road where they had apparently taken off the top layer of asphalt for miles and miles (no road maintenance in sight). I really think that was Minnesota getting a final kick at me before I left.

And I just have to add, it's hard to have a high highway fatality rate when the top layer of asphalt is gone from the road and you can only go 35 mph! lol

Very odd of you to come in with a drive-by insult and then later admit it has been a "long, long while since I was back there".

The roads are very good, and much of the interstate system in the Twin Cities metro has seen incredible improvements over the past decade.

What's difficult for the road quality in Minnesota doesn't come from a lack of effort, focus or care. It's the extremes of temps and specifically the freezing and thawing.

[Marv95]

7th Street and Snelling Ave in St. Paul are currently garbage. When I was in Thief River Falls and Moorhead last year the roads weren't any better with a few exceptions. But that was last year so who knows if they improved or not.

[earslikeacat]

Try driving on Summit (near the bajillion-dollar mansions) or even Grand with all the retail. Snelling is a dream compared to those. Welcome to St. Pothole!

[slamont61]

Watch out for the re-developing pot-hole of all pot-holes at 46th and Snelling. I saw it eat an entire Kia Soul once. No, it just ate it's tire. They patch it full of tar and it's back in days, the pot-hole - not the tire. Tire - RIP