roads

When you are on the road, especially when you are traveling for vacation or a summer road trip, you hope that other motorists are focusing on the roads and not texting or using their phones. Well another state has decided to be creative and funny with their highway signs in an effort to get drivers to focus.

Summer means we all travel a little more and surely by now you know some roads in the Capital Region are a necessary annoyance that you simply cannot avoid.  Until we have cars that can fly or hyper-loop, we must succumb to the evil ways of certain area roads.  Here's a list of a few noteworthy, well traveled roads and what they would say If They Could Talk.

I know this has happened to you. You are driving down the road and all of a sudden you see this black long tube all the way across it. You drive over it with no problem but then you wonder, what the heck is that black tube used for and why on this road?

So a year or so ago when I got my first manual transmission car I was ecstatic. Other drivers make it angering though.

A law many should know, little think about on the road, and many are ignorant about. Myself included.

How are the streets in Niskayuna? Well, they're about to get a lot better.

There are so many problematic areas of traffic in the Capital Region. Rush hour or not I hate the few I am about to mention.

The following is truly a coveted award given to roads in the Capital Region who have made this esteemed pothole list.  (I probably could have gotten a company that does front end alignments to sponsor this, but I decided not to)

This is a frequently asked question in the Albany area and the missing exit has become quite a piece of local lore; it was even mentioned  in a McDonald’s commercial last year.