VA Speeding Fines increasing...

[Ryan T]

It doesn't help their case much either when you drive across the border to MD or NC and the roads are instantly a thousand times smoother and the road work is more sorted out. I look forward to driving down to Charlotte on Tuesday and cruising on the smooth, 70mph limit highways =)

VA has some of the better roads I think. I despise driving in charlotte because the roads beat you to death. That's the entire reason my brother sold his SS, the roads in charlotte and the surrounding area are so shitty that it hurt to drive the car and the potholes so big they would crack the ground effects if you hit them. You'll get about 50 miles of 70mph speed limit because it goes to 65mph and in some places 55mph for a good while. Everywhere past exit 60'ish where you can get on 40 to go to winston-salem is riddled with rough road and all back down to 65mph. Cops are pretty scarce in NC though, which is nice, and they cut you more slack. My mom and I went down to charlotte the day before the 4th of july and saw 14 cops in va and 2 in nc. Most of the ticketing they do there is from the vans parked along the sides of big roads and the ones on redlights.

But in your defense I don't know shit about the roads in NOVA. Growing up in a small town vdot projects were never really a problem. The vdot guys around here are very efficient. I've gotten to see road construction through two different venues, both vdot and private contracting. My father was district materials engineer for vdot bristol region for 38 years and then became a road construction inspector after he retired. He would always comment on how much smoother vdot jobs would go in our area than the private contractors. Part of it had to do with vdot's higher budget. Dad would always have to jump on contractors because they spent more time worrying about cutting corners to save a few pennies than getting the best job done.