One day, I finally found the potholed road to paradise.
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Bridges creak and potholed roads challenge even the best-engineered suspensions.
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It was time to hit the potholed highways of San Francisco.
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Broken pavements, potholed roads and snarling traffic make even walking hazardous.
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Students held up signs comparing Rome's potholed streets to Swiss cheese.
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And since upkeep has been neglected, many new roads are already potholed.
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Dresden has cleaner and less potholed roads, and better-kept social housing.
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In comfort mode, the 23i is compliant and quiet on potholed roads.
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Likewise, the country's cramped airports and potholed highways are a drain on productivity.
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Decades of under-investment have left roads potholed, ports clogged and traffic unbearable.
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Sooty underpasses teem with the unhoused, and the freeways are potholed and gridlocked.
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But the highways are badly potholed, though tolls are collected every few miles.
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Now the potholed muddy track meandering among the hummocks barely resembles a road.
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But potholed roads and broken streetlights are not the only problems locals face.
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Now the potholed muddy track meandering among the hummocks barely resembles a road.
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But whereas Abuja's sweeping avenues are well maintained, the runway of its airport is potholed.
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Regional newspapers are full of stories about leaky school roofs, creaky bridges and potholed roads.
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Fernández lives in a cramped apartment on a potholed street and can't afford a car.
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Pests feast on badly stored produce; potholed roads mean victuals rot on slow journeys to market.
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A decade ago, when this correspondent first visited the place, cars crept along muddy, potholed roads.
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THE grey Stalinist blocks, potholed roads and intimidating communist-era plazas hardly suggest a hipster hotspot.
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Motor accidents frequently occur in the East African nation where roads are often narrow and potholed.
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PUDDLES of sewage dapple the potholed road into Hastings, a tourist hub on Barbados's southern coast.
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But in a lot of areas, the roads are a potholed mess, or just pure sand.
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No doubt, Carr would have loved Avatar Grove, situated off a steep and deeply potholed road.
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Norwich does have a time-warp feel to it that extends beyond its potholed information superhighway.
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As a result, it's incredibly comfortable over potholed city streets and remarkably quiet on the highway.
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The problems here are common in provincial towns: potholed roads, ancient utilities and underfunded health care.
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Two decades ago the District was a potholed basket-case that was losing people to the suburbs.
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Cranes dot the skyline, roads have become muddy potholed lanes and jackhammers resonate late into the night.
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We also lumbered across miles of unpaved, potholed passages — precisely what Ms. Chávez had warned me about.
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In their towns, potholed streets had been repaired, bridges had been built, new apartment buildings were going up.
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Mr. Campos works out of a complex of agricultural research offices on a potholed road in Río Bravo.
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Plying the subcontinent's potholed highways for weeks at a time, few can settle into anything like a home life.
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And he talks with the distracted, potholed speech of someone who doesn't know where his next word is coming from.
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SIRENS WAILING, a black government car pushes through the traffic, past the beggars and street vendors, up a potholed road.
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The alternative is a rutted dirt road so extravagantly potholed and seasonally impassable that it is mostly, and sensibly, avoided.
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The "infamous" potholed alleyway at the end of his block, adorned with aggressively legible NO PARKING and NO LOITERING signs, beckoned.
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They incur more costs by breaking wheels and bike frames on potholed roads while competing for prizes of less than $100.
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The halting progress is emblematic of the country's larger transportation problems — its potholed roads, dysfunctional subways, dilapidated bridges and shabby airports.
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Such tales of leaky classrooms and potholed roads, as well as patchy internet, are the flip side of today's wealthy, booming Germany.
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Roads in the city are potholed and the vestiges of a deadly 2010 earthquake can still be seen at practically every corner.
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He passes on a potholed track a few hundred metres from the main border post at Busia, a town straddling the frontier.
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The main impediments to Africans making and selling more things are rapacious governments, potholed roads, inefficient ports and power lines without electricity.
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Ashish Thakkar, an African entrepreneur and philanthropist, says that shortages of electricity, potholed roads and inefficient ports and railways hold back manufacturers.
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The schedule requires him to navigate a potholed, two-lane highway clogged with other coal trucks on one or two hours' sleep.
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But there are no plans for tanks to roll down Pennsylvania Avenue because metal tracks could damage Washington's already potholed-ridden streets.
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TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Donning leather and helmets (sometimes), they roar along Libya's hair-raising, potholed roads on carefully polished Harley Davidsons and Kawasakis.
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Public schools and clinics are crumbling, roads are potholed and hundreds of thousands of people live in slums without access to services.
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Fatal road crashes are frequent in the East African country, often the result of lax law enforcement, poorly serviced vehicles and potholed roads.
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Beirut's streets are narrow, potholed and anything but straight; a car was approaching rapidly from the opposite direction, but Ms. Baroudi seemed unconcerned.
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Arriaga, Mexico (CNN)Carlos Gomez took a break on a potholed road in southern Mexico littered with abandoned shoes and empty water bottles.
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Cuba may be the only country where the value of ordinary cars rises over time, even though they age quickly on the potholed roads.
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Roadside shanties made of corrugated metal and plastic abut new apartment complexes painted fuchsia and lime green; late-model SUVs bounce along potholed roads.
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Through the streetlights, which lit up the inside of the car in recurring waves, I saw that the driver's forearms were potholed with scars.
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In Crimea, billboards bearing his picture and a quotation from him lauding the "historic mission" of building the bridge loom over various potholed highways.
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But next month, more than 22.26 shiny new Ladas are slated to roll onto Havana's potholed streets, the first in more than a decade.
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The map led them to some sandy dunes at the end of a potholed drive, past a middle-class neighborhood and through a cattle pasture.
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Arriaga, Mexico (CNN)Carlos Gomez took a break last month on a potholed road in southern Mexico littered with abandoned shoes and empty water bottles.
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Collectively, the Democratic rivals argue that Mr. Walker has failed to spend enough for schools, for Wisconsin's potholed roads or for broadband in rural areas.
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Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg called for "New York's next great neighborhood," on a site littered with deeply potholed streets that were underwater whenever it rained.
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Black army Humvees patrol the potholed streets where Islamic State fighters set homes on fire, while rows of shops and restaurants have been flattened during fighting.
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The needed repairs include outdated water, sewer and electrical systems; leaky roofs; crumbling historic structures; rotting artifacts; potholed roads; eroding trails; deteriorating monuments; and much more.
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Every American can see the rusting bridges and potholed roads in their communities, they know how many hours a week they lose to rush hour congestion.
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All across the country, roads are gridlocked and potholed; poor and middle-class kids are denied preschool, and medical advances are stalled for lack of funding.
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The golf cart trundles over a potholed path, jagged with bare pipes and winds past an eerie landscape of deserted cabins, overgrown brush and felled trees.
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Nairobi's public schools and clinics are crumbling, roads are potholed and hundreds of thousands of people live in slums without access to electricity, sewage or services.
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Arriving by car from the national assembly in the tiny ex-Yugoslav republic, the pristine roads turned potholed and the occasional horse-drawn cart swerved between cars.
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Yet minutes away, in several predominately black neighborhoods of South Bend's West Side, deserted houses, potholed streets and broken sidewalks are signs the revitalization has been uneven.
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"We were very excited when we heard about this," said Nana Archer, a participant in Nkwantanum, a poor cocoa-farming community that straddles a potholed dirt road.
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KAMPALA (Reuters) - A forest of slender white poles topped with dark, unblinking eyes is quietly sprouting on the rubbish-strewn, potholed street corners of the Ugandan capital.
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But as he arrived in Washington on the eve of Trump's inauguration on Friday as America's 45th president, he struggled to navigate the city's crowded potholed streets.
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But no matter how hard the crews worked or how furiously they pushed their lumbering vehicles over the potholed roads, there was no satisfying the city's needs.
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Much was said during the event to disparage Mr. de Blasio, who, according to all who spoke, has put New York on a potholed road to ruin.
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If you don't pay what the street is worth, the street is going to be bad, for everyone: potholed, packed with traffic, smoggy, poorly monitored by law enforcement.
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Billboards that advertise huge S.U.V.s motoring like tanks over potholed roads implied that each of us should be fighting the transit demon individually—Hey, get your own S.U.V.!
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Antibiotic resistance: An old problem with new ramifications 'Embarrassing' conditions Down a sandy, potholed track near the border of Mozambique lies the Nayuchi health centre, in Machinga district.
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We thought the potholed streets of London would prepare us for Rome's epic pavements but we learnt the hard way that a baby carrier is sometimes the best option.
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Back in 2014, a jogger along the Nile River would have had the broken sidewalks and potholed roads to himself; these days they are often crowded by 7 a.m.
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A huge, grey, tumbledown coal-fired power plant with smashed windows looms over the potholed, muddy main street largely devoid of traffic; it shuts down in July or August.
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They traveled for hours over the precariously potholed roads that lead to Boumba Bek, Nki, and Lobéké national parks to speak with the villagers who live on the outskirts.
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There were no other signs of conflict and life appeared to continue as normal, with traffic on the muddy, potholed roads and uniformed rebel police at the main roundabouts.
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For lunch, we drove on a potholed side road to Burdines Waterfront, a marina and boat fuel dock with a tiki-esque restaurant on stilts high above a mangrove channel.
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An artist had his video go viral here this week, after he dressed up as an astronaut and pretended to moonwalk across potholed roads in the tech hub of Bengaluru.
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In America and Britain, a strong case can be made for locking in low-cost long-term funding to finance a programme to fix potholed roads and smarten up public spaces.
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The teams driving along potholed roads in armored, white Toyota Land Cruisers are not supposed to become human shields separating combatants, but rather to remain close enough to observe the fighting.
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Notoriously choked with traffic, a clattery, belching, potholed sluice of despair, built for 47,000 vehicles, now used by 3003,000 cars and trucks a day, the long-neglected midcentury highway is collapsing.
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In March this year, the 27.7-year-old walked into a diamond dealer's store on a dusty street in Kono, a potholed backwater 24 miles east of Sierra Leone's capital of Freetown.
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As our mini-bus bounced over the existing road -- a muddy, potholed mess -- we envied what future travelers will drive on: the highway that will cut the nine-hour journey by half.
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Down a potholed street in Seattle, WA, Matt Pollitz, owner of X-Ray Auto, makes his living keeping the country's largest vintage Volvo community on the road and out of the junkyard.
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He drives along the potholed streets of Port-au-Prince, past food shacks and UN trucks, past a line of people dancing in the street, to the Marriott hotel ($159 a night).
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During my first week as a bike delivery girl in Brooklyn, I rode out to a potholed, industrial block on Grand Street to bring a veggie burger to a strip club called Pumps.
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Last year a study by Trip, a transport think-tank, found that the potholed roads in 25 American cities were pushing up citizens' annual car-maintenance costs by more than $700 per vehicle.
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Voters were the first to call the governor's bluff, ousting more than a dozen of his legislative supporters in last year's elections as punishment for damaged school services, potholed highways and near recession.
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The nearest one, an hour's drive away, sometimes refused to come, and hauling a body in a van as it bounced along potholed roads and swerved to avoid skittish kangaroos was a dicey proposition.
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DRIVE north-east from Lagos along a potholed highway lined by the shells of burned-out trucks and, as you approach Ibadan, you can see a few modern factories sprouting amid the rusted tin roofs.
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Living In 9 Photos View Slide Show ' For years, downtown Closter, N.J., was defined by the empty storefronts and potholed parking lot of Closter Plaza, a 1960s shopping center that had fallen on hard times.
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As the sun beat down on Chinese workers driving bulldozers, four huge tractor-trailers rolled into a storage area here in Vang Vieng, a difficult three-hour drive over potholed roads from the capital, Vientiane.
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ROME, April 16 (Reuters) - The three metro stops serving the heart of Rome are shut because of decrepit escalators, a new blow to a city already struggling with a garbage crisis, potholed roads and tumbling trees.
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Ego and impulsivity may have precipitated the United States and North Korea's initial foray into summit diplomacy, but the road to verification and monitoring of North Korea's nuclear dismantlement will be potholed — and the pace, plodding.
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Once underground, the scene abruptly changes from one of potholed blacktop and industrial grit to the more sanitized chrome and concrete industrial look ubiquitous to CrossFit "boxes," as they're called by the devoted, around the world.
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ROME (Reuters) - Several thousand people protested in front of Rome City Hall on Saturday to denounce the ragged state of the Italian capital, where roads are potholed, rubbish often goes uncollected and wild boar roam the streets.
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HARARE (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Heavy traffic snakes through downtown Harare, Zimbabwe's capital, maneuvering along the potholed roads as impatient motorists hoot at one other, while pedestrians try to cross the congested streets, weaving through slow-moving cars.
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In a wintry corner of Ukraine's rebel heartland, the potholed highway carved through rolling, snow-covered steppe beneath a horizon stained by the occasional smokestack and a pair of industrial behemoths – a coke furnace and vast steel works.
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I thought I had seen it all before: a small ghost town with potholed dusty roads, skinny stray dogs, and kooky 80-year-old women with thick silver cornrows, shiny golden sandals, and no teeth, scavenging for food.
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They walked for seven days, through the bush, navigating potholed dirt roads in 140-degree heat, before arriving at the tiny village of Aburoc — a rebel-held, desolate, desert town, and the last frontier before crossing into Sudan.
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Private McMansion-style neighborhoods protected by armed guards have popped up across the country, and freshly minted aristocrats navigate the potholed streets in foreign-made luxury cars, dining at restaurants where the cuisine rivals that found in Western capitals.
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The answer to all three questions is Mr. Trump's pledge to put his self-described talents as a builder to work by spending $1 trillion on restoring the country's crumbling bridges, potholed roads, rust-bucket trains and shabby-not-chic airports.
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Credit...CreditAdriana Zehbrauskas for The New York Times LOCO HILLS, N.M. — At the diner she manages in the heart of New Mexico's oil country, Joni Moorhead talks to roughnecks all day long about potholed roads, cramped lodging camps, soaring rents — and state politics.
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You needn't look further than American Pie – an entire franchise about hormonally frenzied high schoolers and their potholed quest for third base – to see the difference between what was marketed towards teenage boys and what was marketed towards teenage girls at the time.
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Driving in what he calls his "trusty Ford Explorer" from a campaign stop in Northern Michigan into the potholed expanse of highways surrounding Detroit, El-Sayed says his faith is his North Star, but not really relevant to running the state of Michigan.
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Mr. Ssentamu, who was elected to parliament last year, has emerged as an influential critic of Mr. Museveni, especially among many educated young people who cannot find work in Uganda, where hospitals often lack basic medicines, and main roads are dangerously potholed.
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Clad in combat fatigues, body armor and bulletproof helmets, they strapped Taurus assault rifles around their shoulders and journeyed for hours in four-wheel-drive pickup trucks along potholed roads from São Luís, the state capital, to Santa Inês, an outpost in the interior.
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Mr. Dongo fantasizes about a future in which he no longer begs in order to survive or navigates potholed roads and back streets; instead, he's ferried around in a black S.U.V., accompanied by a bodyguard who pushes him past screaming fans to the stage.
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But high transport costs along potholed roads also help make fertiliser up to 50% more expensive in Tanzania and 80% more expensive in Mali than in Thailand, according to Amit Roy, formerly of the International Fertiliser Development Centre, an American charity which supports better farming practices.
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In the easy, hypnotic section of stories called "Secret Lives," Ngugi delivers a direct hit at the infamous Mubenzi, that insidious and institutionalized faction of officials who took charge after the colonists finally departed and proceeded to embezzle funds meant for village schools, remote hospitals and potholed roads.
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"I look forward to updating my pending legal action in opposition to D.O.J. this weekend in preparation for Monday's next small step on the long, potholed road toward helping to restore law and order in our great country," Mr. Page said in a statement on Friday, praising the memo's release.
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Now that a few of the misdeeds against the Trump Movement have been partially revealed, I look forward to updating my pending legal action in opposition to DOJ this weekend in preparation for Monday's next small step on the long, potholed road toward helping to restore law and order in our great country.
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Its cities are freighted with dust, beaten into submission by the harsh sun, red, hard-packed earth, potholed, black-tarred roads, and sturdy but uninspired greenery, buildings, modern and traditional, crowding each other, all of it shrouded in a layer of fast change, the wider ambitioms of the region, and deep melancholy.
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On the other side of what would appear to be a lopsided semifinal equation was Scott Rueck, the Oregon State coach, who explained that his potholed road to Sunday's game with 212-25 Connecticut began in 53, when he inherited a team from which nine of 25 players had transferred and open tryouts were necessary to field a squad.
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He says he knows of around 22018 people like him in Transnistria who have started similar ventures of varying sizes, from a single server in their bedroom to massive banks of machines behind the shuttered facades of the crumbling warehouses that blight almost every potholed road here, windows all broken and murals of industrious workers peeling off.
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The Wigwam Motel, a roadside attraction on the potholed remains of Route 66, is a series of diamond-shaped structures that opened in 1949 in Rialto, California; a long-neglected municipality one hour and one universe away from Los Angeles, where everyone stares at you like they're going to kick your ass or fuck your wife or kick your ass while fucking your wife.
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