I always thought this but my last trip from NC back to DC confirms it. It's the 30 mile stretch of I-95 / 395 just south of DC.

You have your do-gooders going exactly the speed limit in the center lane, and then there are the obnoxious crazed idiots tailgating and weaving among them. Add the concrete canyon effect and left hand exits and merges, and you have all the elements of sweat and anxiety inducing road rage.

I'm so lucky I don't have to do that every day.

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Michigan roads are like the Bermuda Triangle cars disappear it not known if they rattle into dust or fall into blackholes so deep that the earth magma vaporizes them.

Alligator Alley- Route 27 in Miami.....used to be just two lanes, no lights bad ride.

Route 60 from Tampa to Miami three hour ride....

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That stretch of I 95 just south of Washington really does suck! It's either like a parking lot or bumper to bumper at 70-80 MPH. And you're absolutely right about the nuts that drive it. We have plenty of local crazy drivers, but they mix it up with all the other crazies from up and down the East Coast and it gets really scarey!

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The Schuylkill Expressway in sunny Philadelphia. Car-nage is always plentiful. The driver's drill is a simple one:

1. Enter the expressway from another road or entrance ramp at 70mph.

2. Then use both feet on the brake pedal in an attempt to avoid rearending stalled traffic.

3. When traffic clears, depress go-pedal con brio to make up for lost time.

4. Then use both feet on the brake pedal in an attempt to avoid rearending stalled traffic.

5. Lather, rinse, repeat.

Yes Paul, that aptly describes entering the Xpressway at City Line and heading SB to merge with it and Rosey Blvd! Carnage indeed!

The BQE coming off the Verrazano Bridge heading out to LI.
Lights out the worst freakin drivers in North America.

I would take any road in NY or NJ any day over
1) The Beltway in DC Yikes -- I won't even get on it anymore!
2) I-270 in Maryland -- absolutely the worst drivers on the planet. The guys in Maryland make NJ drivers look like they know what they are doing
3) Short Rd in Kearneyville, WV. What a crappy mountain track. Were I flipped the Suburban in the ice storm we had last month.

These roads make me long for the NJTP or the GSP!

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I share your pain on these two...

let me add I-95 everywhere in NY..
you can see taxpayer dollars at work once you hit Connecticut...

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1. The Beltway is bad, I agree, even tho I haven't traveled it in a few years.
2. Don't know about 270.
3. If you want to travel the NJTP or GSP, do it before the Guv's proposed toll increases take effect.

But you gotta experience the Brooklyn drivers in their tinted glass rigs or 1989 Maximas. It's close, but I give the BQE the nod.

That's nothing. Those roads are paved and everything. Try Fort Churchill Rd. in Lyon County, NV. It branches off from U.S. 50 about 2/3 of the way through Dayton, and is the location of one of my former employers. Now the first mile is paved but it wasn't when I was driving it daily. It doesn't matter, since that was always the smooth part anyway. The road included (depending on season) dust so bad that you couldn't see the car in front of you until you were within 30 feet of it, embedded rock, washboard, loose gravel, mud, deep mud, deep sloppy mud, potholes, hairpin turns, drivers doing 50+ mph (like me) other drivers who wouldn't go over 25 mph down the middle of the road so you couldn't pass(f'ing accounting department), a ranch owner who likes to flood the part of the road that divides his property and iss fond of pulling guns on people, fog coming off the Carson River about a quarter mile away, and of course sometimes snow or snow packed into sheets of ice.

I drove this particular 10.5 miles of joy five or six days a week for almost two years. I took my dad down it once and he thought I was nuts for ever agreeing to work at that place. The road continues for another five miles past my former employer and runs past historic Fort Churchill (1860's Army post) before meeting U.S. 95 at the other end. The short side isn't nearly as bad.

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Those are my "local" roads, and the reason I won't get a motorcycle until I move away from here. The bad driving starts at a 20-25 mile radius of DC in all directions. There are too many type-A's on the road here.

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I don't remember the name of the road, but went from Dawson City to Carmacs to Whitehorse in the Yukon. Sort of a scenic bypass off the Alaska Highway. It was a narrow 2 lane gravel road with a lot of hills and switchbacks. What the maps don't tell you is that the road is owned by 18 wheeler gravel haulers going 70 mph plus. Lost the windshield on that leg of the trip. Whenever we stopped, we were swarmed by literally clouds of no-see-ums. The Alaska Highway, though only partially paved at that time, was like a superhighway compared to the back road.

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BERNIE .......... NUTHOUSE
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YOu haven't been lost until you've been lost on a remote road in Tennessee (IIRC) in a motor home with a mercedes on a tow bar behind. We thought we were heading for a camp ground and got onto a road that went down a kindof mountainside which was very bumpy and a couple of miles with noplace to turn around. by the time we reached the bottom I had torn the mounts for the sway bar off the front of my 220d.

The interstate from Knoxville through Atlanta on the way to Florida in spring break is about the worst stretch of road. The last two times i went that way we got into traffic jams that lasted hours. I will not pass that way again at that time of year at least.

Driving through Chicago on the way to Wisconsin is pretty rough too, or trying to get anyplace in Chicago on the interstate system...and probably about any time too. I went up at 200 am once to pick up my (crazy) sister at O'Hare and got stuck in a jam because they had the road shut down for repairs. there was not much traffic but they weren't letting it go through!

Tom W

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easy...the road to work every morning. Oddly enough, the same road home in the afternoon is delightful.

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