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How good are American roads?

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193 points chmaynard | 2 comments | 20 Nov 24 14:45 UTC | HN request time: 0.676s | source
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O5vYtytb ◴[20 Nov 24 15:29 UTC] No.42194731[source]▶
Amazing that Minneapolis tops the city road quality chart, despite having the harshest winters. Do southern cities not build their roads so robustly? Or are they not maintained?
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1. xenospn ◴[20 Nov 24 19:32 UTC] No.42197306[source]▶
When I was driving in Minneapolis a few years ago, you couldn’t drive more than 20 miles an hour because the roads were so bad around the neighborhood. I wonder if they fixed that.
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2. brewdad ◴[20 Nov 24 21:42 UTC] No.42198412[source]▶
I think Minneapolis has a citywide 20 mph speed limit for non-arterial roads. They might consider the rough road a feature.