Washington, Rhode Island, and Hawaii Named ‘Worst States’ to Drive In – IOTW Report

Washington, Rhode Island, and Hawaii Named ‘Worst States’ to Drive In

KFI: Driving and owning a vehicle in America has long been considered a rite of passage and part of the American experience. And with more than 48,191 miles of interstate highway laid out across the country, your driving experience can vary widely across all 50 states.

In a recent study by WalletHub, an online financial advisory site, their experts examined the driving experiences of residents in all 50 states by looking at 31 factors, including time spent in rush hour traffic, car theft rates, and average gas prices as well as the quality of the roads and the average cost of car maintenance. MORE

17 Comments on Washington, Rhode Island, and Hawaii Named ‘Worst States’ to Drive In

  1. Seconded I found Washington to have fairly normal roads except for Seattle. Which was worse than Oakland Ca. If that’s even possible to imagine.

    However, I should probably nominate my state of Arizona. Constantly hear from people who don’t live here (I’m looking at you Nevada) how bad our roads are.

    Well, outside of the two cities there’s like 10 of us. Not a huge tax base to draw from. I do know for a fact that 50% of Arizona roads are unpaved.

    I live on one of them.

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  2. The study didn’t include the relevant demographic factors:

    1. States with the highest percentage of Zombie drivers.
    2. States with the largest number of idiot, electric/hybrid cars per capita (um, yeah, Prius’s, Teslas, etc.).
    3. States with the highest concentration of Progressives on the road who all hog the center and left lanes.
    4. States with the most Soviet-style politicians everywhere you go.
    5. States with the most ‘sanctuary cities.’
    6. States with the most homeless tents along the freeway.
    7. States that suck anyway with lots of stupid people who vote for Marxists and Communists.

    In other words, Washington.

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  3. You couldn’t willingly get me to drive on I-5 in Seattle at rush hour or 405 for that matter going towards SeaTac airport. I had to go to SeaTac once at rush hour on a Friday afternoon to pickup a large truckload of flowers for Mother’s Day and it was a big pain in the ass getting there. It’s a major league cluster fuck. My wife and I ran out of gas on the inside lane of I-5 in downtown Seattle back in the early 80’s driving my dads 72 Chevy P/U truck. Fortunately a state trooper helped us out of that jam. I didn’t know that my dads truck had 2 gas tanks, it had a saddle tank that I wasn’t aware of until we were stranded on I-5. I never made that mistake again and it was also before we had kids. I still say Montana and Idaho roads are worse especially on 2 lane rural roads where there’s lots of deer and elk and other critters on the road jumping unexpectedly in front of you when you’re driving 60-70mph. Question, why does Hawaii have an interstate freeway?

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  4. I don’t know about other states, but in Washington most gas stations charge you an extra ten cents a gallon if you use a Card to pay. Costco and Safeway don’t seem to do that.

    When we go to see the grandchildren in Grant County, we usually plan our fuelling stops around the Safeway in Cle Elum (which seems to be lower than other Safeways) and the Coctco in Bellingham before we cross the border.

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  5. They have never been to Kansas!
    Drive down two lane US hwy 69, speed limit 65 mph.
    Drive 85 mph. You will be passed on the right at every intersection.
    That is what Kansans think the right-turn pull-over is for.

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  6. I don’t ever buy gas in Central Wash. unless I absolutely have to because it’s at least 40-50 cents more cents per gallon expensive than in Seattle or Eastern Wash. And Oregon is even more expensive and I don’t know if you can pump your own gas in Oregon yet if that stupid law is still in effect. But Kansas is supposedly so flat that you can see the back of your head.

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  7. These people have never been to Florida, especially south Florida. It’s a melting pot of the worst drivers from Puerto Rico, NY / NJ, and confused tourists from everywhere. Plus us natives drive like assholes just to piss the rest of them off.

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  8. Their criteria is screwy. Number of car washes? Please. As far as driving experience, I would say the closer you get to a “big” city (over 100k) the worse the drivers. And the bigger the city, the worse the drivers. My experience is mostly in the western states. Denver and Portland pretty bad, LA horrible, but I think there are more assholes driving in Las Vegas than anywhere else I have been. I think we are in the second or third generation of jerks teaching their offspring to drive.

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  9. I vote for the Seattle metropolitan area. But grant funding agencies are making it so that even Gap is screwed up now.

    https://kimatv.com/news/videos/collisions-before-after-union-gap-roundabouts-steady-traffic-flow-improved

    They always compare the before roundabout to after. They never take into consideration that the after did not have to be a roundabout. The improvement could have cost half as much and performed better than their Goddamned roundabout disasters do. Without the clusterfuck that the roundabout caused

    In Gap they have signs all over telling people who are lost how to get straightened out

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  10. Drove to Fife today via all the nightmare highways mentioned above. I was in Columbus OH last week and the drivers are better there. Maybe it’s the 8 lane freeways and flat land.

    The freeways in the greater Seattle area were badly planned and have to negotiate around lakes and hills.

    Too many people here drift into your lane because they are on their phones and feel entitled to do whatever they want (no turn signals) because of how important they think they are.

    Happy to be home!

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