New Mexico State Highway and Transportation Dept

Pluses.They have a cool website called nmroads.com where you can check the status incidents and closures.Minuses.NM cannot deal with snow. It doesn't plow properly, it closes roads left and right and it doesn't keep its road hotline up to date.I 40 was closed for 3 days. We were able to drive on it by simply getting on and driving past the cops. They waved us on through? WTF? There was nothing wrong with the road. Then they closed the road behind us and trapped people in 16 degree weather in their cars on new year's eve. If the road was not so bad why was it closed? Fog? Well, then make a detour. We came down 84 which was perfectly nice. Total incompetance. Ugh.

The drive through New Mexico is almost as bad as the drive through Kansas. But at least in New Mexico, there are no diving grouse that suicide bomb into the grill of your car.Twice.Hot as balls, too.

This organization is horrible. Every highway and egress route is backed up and the think they are helping by blocking off lanes and switching to other highways such as route 66 but it does more harm than good. There are tons of semi trucks flooded in these roads that make it harder to travel on and that doesn't even account for the accidents. I am surprised that there are not people fighting each other on the side of the road. I hate living here, I hate driving here and I cannot wait until my job transfers me elsewhere. These people need to get it together as far as the roads are concerned. From what we can see there isn't even any construction going on. They just have the lanes blocked off with zero inclination as to why it is this way. Save yourself a headache and fly over this horrible state of you can!!