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the streets or the roads?? streets are streets, not much to say about them... but the roads around here are awesome...

I live in Texas and our roads are great. Most of the roads have a paved shoulder that is wide enough for a car. The farm to market roads are paved plenty wide for two way traffic and kept in good conition all year long. What can I say, the roads are just great.

As for our roads... right now the average road has about 2-3 potholes per 1/4 mile that is deeper than 1 inch and longer than 6 inches... Sucks on the cage's alignment, and sucks to dodge, although it does give one good skills!
Wrider

Lets see...Saginaw....flat and straight roads. poor road conditions too with lots of patches and potholes once you get off the main roads and near the housing.

Hawaii (Oahu) This is the best for year round weather but... Lots of traffic, crazy drivers and road conditions are poor( potholes, ruts, uneven paatches and such) you would think you were in a place where they plowed, sanded and salted 10 months a year and never had time to fix roadways. but plus side it is beautiful.

I'm in Clearwater FL. thats right next to Tampa, on the west coast. On weekends I head one county up and one county over to ride. Lots of long roads without traffic lights out that way, even a few twisty ones. But mainly not as much traffic. The roads here are all pretty good, it's the people on them that suck !!! There's Blue hairs everwhere !!!

Roads in South Jersey are decent, side roads tend to be ok, but turns can be scary though due to the sand and salt that seems to last all year.
Gravel in peoples driveways seems to collect at the corners also so that dosen't help either!
Highways in the garden state are beautifull though! They are mostly smooth and scenic and the traffic is not that bad.
However Jersey isn't known for their great drivers and not to knock anyones driving skills when they are on four wheels,
but the problem is that everybody is rushing to go nowhere! That can prove to be quite dangerous if you are not paying attention to your surroundings!
Steve

Lancaster PA is amish country. LOTS of smooth long roads with occasional turns. You can get on top of a hill and see miles away. However, these roads vary greatly once you get into the city. There are potholes everywhere and traffic is horrid. The heat is always up from the cars, and not to mention the amount of large heavy trucks that pass through don't help much either.

I'd say 70% of the roads are smooth with occasional pot holes. Nearly no traffic, but the other 30% is just nasty.

Pot Holes? cant remember ever seeing one here in Japan. the roads are pristine. But then theyre choked with cars. After i drive an hour out of the town the country roads are empty and thats great riding. clean too, never really see any stuff in the road too. No roadkill either. but when you have managed your forrest so that no animals can live there that will happen. Have to pay for the highways and they go ton of speed camera, but they take the pictures from the front. No tickets for me them on the bike. but after about 100 of them they may try to find me.

I'd say here in New Castle County, Delaware the streets are really good.

Unfortunately we've got a number of bridge projects going on and the commuter route that I take in my car is rather awful. So, I've been experimenting with different routes and they all tend to be longer at least twice the distance or more.

When I'm ready to commute on my bike, I think that would be a pretty good trade off having fun riding on my Virago and avoiding the stop-n-go bottlenecks. At 82mpg I can afford to extend my commuting distance.