Your Damn Roads!!!

[HFS]

Defending comments from a Californian, I feel like the preacher in Blazing Saddles, defending the new sheriff from the mob (until they shoot right through his Bible and then he says, "You're on your own!").

But the man has a point. Oklahoma has some of the sorriest roads in the country. I've ever seen gravel roads in other states in better shape than the PAVED roads here.
The first time I drove through Nichols Hills, I thought WTH, these obviously rich folks get the same roads the poor folks get???
I told a born and bred Okie one time that in this state, you'd never know that asphalt is a petroleum product. You would think it was made from some rare mineral or something. And they just laughed like hell.

 

[davek]

I've always wondered why the dirt roads in Kansas are smoother than the streets/highways in Oklahoma.

 

[swampratt]

We get the same jokers fixing the roads every time and making them so they fail ...Job security.

 

[Apogee]

If you like most of Oklahoma divided highways, you'll love The Westbound Cimarron Turnpike around highway 99. The mechanical bull at the local Honky Tonk bar got nothing on that stretch.

 

[jfssms]

Yes, why yes I am.

If you guys would just send us a few more bucks. You guy's have all the money.

 

[jfssms]

We could raise fuel taxes...nobody wants that. So just slow down and enjoy green country.

 

[Uncle Meat]

Oklahoma's roads are it's best defense .

 

[jfssms]

Oklahoma's roads are it's best defense .

That is so funny man!

 

[Profreedomokie]

If you're driving that Dodge pickup in your avatar, it should be that bad. I have a very small car that is set up for handling. So its low and the ride is very stiff. I drive to Stillwater via I-35 from Ponca City to avoid the buckling pavement/ speedbumps of 177.

 

[Shadowrider]

I've always wondered why the dirt roads in Kansas are smoother than the streets/highways in Oklahoma.

And I thought it was only me.