Ancient forum secret...I didn’t know Matt had an emporium.
I would guess it has to do with frost every winter. Water in the cracks expands as it freezes, and the maintenance budget doesn't keep up with the damage.
I live about 15 minutes from where you lived. I am in an area called Hampton which is part of Towson, near the Loch Raven reservoir. The problem with Pa. roads is partly due to the very many Townships that govern, versus a county and state government. Those townships have VASTLY different taxation and therefore their ability/desire to be effective when addressing the roads is impacted. There are places in the northeast that have worse weather conditions, but infinitely better roads. It's a matter of managing them properly, something Maryland is better at, but only marginally.
No better in Canada. Up here, the city figures the roads aren't bad enough so they dig them out, and fill them back in with the skill level of a 4 year old. I was stopped at a light and when I took off I hit one hell of a crappy repair. I Don know how I didn't see it.So I was on my way home from golf yesterday talking to a forum member on the hands free, and hit a pothole on 702 as it is going over a bridge so there are expansion joints. When I hit it, it was so loud that the guy I was talking to commented and questioned whether I had hit something, I told him yeah, a pothole and he said "DAAAAMN!!" I took the car to a local automated car wash and they lined me up on the mechanism looking right at it and said nothing, then the guys drying the car asked if I wanted tire dressing and I said yes. The HAD to see this, and they still said nothing. This is the 3rd one in 3 years. KMC no longer makes these rims. The first time it happened I had to buy a set of 4 because the store knew that KMC didn't make them any more. I have 2 brand new back ones with a shallower dish than the two on the car, but too deep to use on the front. I see that American Muscle has a VERY similar set that I could get, but I would like to go down to a 19 inch or 18 inch rim so that I had a little more sidewall to protect the rims, but I can't find one that look similar for less than $400 a rim, and that's just SIMILAR not the same. Ugh....
