America's roads are awful!!

RAS43 wrote:

HadEnough wrote:
The thing I didn't like about Southern CA freeways was they, for some reason, can't flow a bridge into the road properly.

Instead of a nice, gentle slope from road to a slightly higher bridge level and back down, they have these table top jumps, basically. My TC hated those.

This is my pet peeves with Colorado roads. Why can't engineers design a bridge approach that is smooth. The worst is I25 thru Colorado Springs. Lots of new pavement but jarring on every bridge.

The same reason they can't in Va., when they built I-295 around Richmond, I said then that the two different crews, one building the road, and one building the bridges, both used different tape measures, one in metric & one Standard, the road was beautiful but it didn't match up to the bridges, I actually watched loaded semi trailer wheels leave the ground when hitting a bridge.