DOT Reports Americans Still Driving Less

Andrew Stoy — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:45:00 EDT

Transportation Secretary Mary Peters is lamenting the fact that Americans are driving less, resulting in declining gas tax revenues and decreased funding for road projects. As eTrucker reports, the federal government already had to make an emergency contribution of $8 billion to the DOT in September to continue in-progress projects. Statistics show Americans have driven 62.6 billion miles less than they did over the same nine-month period last year, leading Peters to remark "If we don’t evolve our policies, we will leave a sad legacy of old roads, crowded highways and unfulfilled transit ambitions." Which is exactly what we have now, so who do we blame for that? [eTrucker; Photo Credit]

What's The Worst Road You've Ever Driven On?

Matt Hardigree — Fri, 09 May 2008 11:40:00 EDT

Though we've asked you about your favorite roads, today's geoporn of Beijing's craziest interchanges got us thinking of the worst roads we've driven on. We can't help but remember a Hungarian prof telling the story of German diplomats driving around Romania (Hungarians and Romanians don't get along, fyi). The Germans think they're making great progress and all four of them are chatting about this in their big Mercedes and then they hit a pothole. A pothole so big it swallows the entire car. Then, as the professor said, "they were all dead, poof." This was supposed to be the punch line. You have to love that Eastern European sense of humor.

We've so far avoided complete pothole immersion in our drives around Chicago, though just barely. Everyone knows that the Tail of the Dragon is where it's at for great driving. You tell us where the fire-breathing mouth (or anus) of the dragon is.

[Photo: EnglishRussia]

Jalopnik: bad roads

DOT Reports Americans Still Driving Less

What's The Worst Road You've Ever Driven On?