I have drove in 49 out of 50 states (never been to Hawaii) and Illinois ranks the worst in my opinion. It’s like they ran out of asphalt and stopped doing any repairs 10 or 20 years ago.
To people not living in the U.S., feel free to complain about your country’s roads too.
South Carolina. Nothing ever gets repaired until it’s on the verge of total collapse. When major repairs start they get dragged out for years so that by the time anything is finished another major repair needs to be done somewhere else.
Road construction has long been an afterthought in the state, along with all infrastructure. They’re quick to put plants and industry in place, then have heavy trucks destroy what bit of road was left… Then take half a decade to decide that maybe they should have built the road first, but now have nowhere else to put it.
When driving on I-95, it’s super obvious when you enter South Carolina. The road is shit, but then immediately good again when you cross into either GA or NC.