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Old 08-12-2014, 10:11 AM
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Originally Posted by Para82
You guys haven't been to NY/NJ...drive up there and then see if you still think SoCal has bad roads.
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Old 08-13-2014, 01:43 AM
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Originally Posted by Para82
You guys haven't been to NY/NJ...drive up there and then see if you still think SoCal has bad roads.
Sadly, you are so right. I recall picking up a rental car in NY one day outside JFK and that first bridge outside the airport facility was nothing but pot holes and really crappy pot hole patches. I couldn't image having a 997 with 19 inch wheels in that area!
Old 08-13-2014, 03:42 PM
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I live in SoCal. The road may be straight but I hardly ever drive straight trying to avoid potholes and other road hazards. By the way, my daily beater is a Prius. 147K miles on original batteries and still going strong!
Old 08-13-2014, 04:22 PM
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depends on the area

downtown LA and suburbs near by (like K-town) = mostly terrible roads, full of potholes

south Orange county (like Laguna Hills) = mostly great roads, smooth as satin

obviously, residents' tax bracket has a lot to do with road conditions
Old 08-13-2014, 07:02 PM
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Originally Posted by PC's 997S
Have you ever been to Southeast Michigan?

I can't imagine the roads anywhere else being worse than Michigan's...and Detroit is the so called Motor City.
dunno....SF is pretty bad (and no snow here)
Old 08-14-2014, 12:23 AM
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What about the roads that I watch Jay Leno tear through on his YouTube channel? Where are those located? I see that **** and get a hard on.

I hate the terrain in SWFL (flat and straight mostly) but the roads are NICE.
Old 08-14-2014, 03:20 AM
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The roads Jay Leno drives on are a combination of burbank, sun valley, the 210 eastbound from sunland through la tuna canyon
Old 08-14-2014, 12:42 PM
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yesterday i had some work down in san diego county & came back to the OC up the 15 & took Ortega Highway (Highway 74) at Lake Elsinore across to the 5....a fun twisty road through the Santa Ana Mountains. lotsa fun till i got behind a truck pulling a trailer. But beautiful scenery.
Old 08-14-2014, 01:32 PM
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This is what happens when all of the money goes to public employee salaries, pensions, and healthcare. Wake up people!
Old 08-14-2014, 06:23 PM
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+1 on RWP997. --- everyone laughs at California.....but all the people moving outta here are moving to your state...to vote for the same stuff they've left behind. all we have here is nice scenery and great weather (which is admittedly a lot)
Old 08-14-2014, 07:09 PM
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I live in San Diego, and agree that the problem is very regional. City of San Diego roads are generally under-maintained, but the more affluent cities in the county have excellent roads.

With a few notable exceptions (like the 405), I think the state maintained highways in SoCal are in pretty good shape. In San Diego, tremendous effort is being made to expand and modernize the system to accommodate the anticipated traffic.
Old 08-14-2014, 11:24 PM
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Love California!!

I was just there for a week for work, tacked on a couple days for myself. Cruised around usual spots with my Malibu rental, so not too fun. Anybody go for a rip down Topanga Canyon? that seemed like it'd be fun in a 911 without traffic.

Dream is to do the PCH up the coast LA to San Fran in my 911.
Old 08-14-2014, 11:36 PM
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I live in sunny Miami, lots of Porsches, little fun in the straight roads. Well maintained though. I went to Silicon Valley last Spring, it was delicious to take a secondary road from there to Half Moon Bay, CA, I just wished it wasn't the Ford rental I had, but my 997.2.
Old 08-15-2014, 05:46 PM
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Originally Posted by RWP997
This is what happens when all of the money goes to public employee salaries, pensions, and healthcare. Wake up people!
No, this is what happens when we don't raise our gasoline taxes commensurate with the increasing costs of maintaining our roads.
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Originally Posted by dalancroft
No, this is what happens when we don't raise our gasoline taxes commensurate with the increasing costs of maintaining our roads.
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