New Mexico has and has always had some of the worst roads of all the states I’ve traveled. Their DOT seems to see little of the revenue the state collects. They let the roads get in bad shape and then try and blame it on the traffic when in fact it’s just negligence. They’ve had 40 plus years to repair and rebuild yet the money went else where. I was putting in wells all over that area back in the late 70’s and early 80’s and the roads were bad then compared to Texas roads. South of Jal to nth of Milinsands and as far west as Artesia. The state has ignored these roads for many years.
Twice a year I drive from El Paso to Las Cruces then to Roswell, down to a Artesia and back to El Paso. Whether I go through Carlsbad, Cloudcroft or Hondo.. those roads seem ok to me. Maybe I’m just used to the sh-tty roads here in and around Memphis.
“New Mexico has and has always had some of the worst roads of all the states I’ve traveled.”
Yep. Being a native New Mexican, the first time I drove through Texas I was dumbfounded at the high quality of the highways there. Concrete, smooth, wide, multiple lanes, etc. Getting back onto home state roads was an embarrassment...
The joke here in Albuquerque is that the roads are always torn up because the state needs a place to store all of the orange barrels they own.