[reaperducer]

Since you mentioned Florida, the roads go from good to bad as soon as you cross the border into Alabama

Same thing happens with California/Nevada.

I-15 is wide, flat, beautiful and flawless on the Nevada side. As soon as you hit California, it's like a rural county road with no maintenance.

[seanmcdirmid]

I don’t notice much going between the two on I-80, well except you go from pretty straight desert roads into a freaking mountain range. Are mountains involved in the border at I-15 also?

California is rated poorly on roads on average because they have a lot of rural/mountainous terrain to cover. In the cities where most people live, the roads are actually pretty good.

[lowbloodsugar]

I’ve driven track cars with bone shaking suspension from LA to Vegas and honestly don’t recall any difference.

[reaperducer]

I’ve driven track cars with bone shaking suspension from LA to Vegas and honestly don’t recall any difference.

Funny, because it's in the Las Vegas newspapers every six months or so how the mayor of Las Vegas and the governor of Nevada are always begging California to upgrade its side of I-15.

Almost every month there are 14-hour traffic jams on Sunday night as the SoCal crowd scurries home only to hit the bottleneck at the California border where I-15 goes from six lanes to four, then twists its way through the mountains.

I've driven it many dozens of times in the last ten years, and it's well known among people who live in Nevada.

[lowbloodsugar]

Maybe Nevada could provide the money for it? Building roads on flat ground is easier than a freeway through the mountains is it not? And the primary beneficiary of the road is Vegas? Why would I want California taxes to subsidize Vegas gamblers? A road that is totally fine except Sunday night? Think about the two bits of road you are comparing: they are not representative.