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I bought my car in Manassas and drove it back to DC. 66 was really not bad other than the noise, which is a combination of the concrete and the loud Bridgestones.

Believe me, the roads are not bad around here. Go to Illinois and drive around the Chicago area. I've never seen anything else like it. With all the freezing and thawing they got the last few years, you'd swear you were in a war zone. Extremely poor construction is part of it too, because if you drive north to Wisconsin, amazingly the roads get better.

I have a long standing belief that the construction companies who pave the roads in Illinois purposely screw them up so that they have a guaranteed job in five or so years. I have this very distinct memory of driving home on 294 in Northern IL and encountering regular really sharp ridges in the road. This road was roughly a year old. I started watching my odometer and sure enough, every 0.3 miles on the dot, another ridge.

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I have family in Chicago so I drive up there a lot and the roads are pretty bad. Harsh winters plus tons of traffic really beat the roads up. And like you, I suspect the construction companies don't build them as solidly as they could. Its Chicago, though, so that's to be expected.

I'll attest to that!
Heading north on 83 or 15, there's a definite "seam" or bump where Maryland's paving ends and Pennsylvania's begins. Currently, the right lane on 83N is a miserable ride in the Z. Perpendicular seams in the pavement bounce you up and down and parallel seams grab the tires.

66 around DC is pretty bad, but it's not the worst.

All I know is we all need to be extra careful around this time of the year so we don't bend our rims.