jrodriguezjr
José Rodríguez Jr.
jrodriguezjr
Staff Writer at Jalopnik. Periodista automotriz. Naturally Aspirated Stan.

Jose, absolutely agree! (by the way, Edinburg here) The construction on I2/ interchange 83/281 is so bad, people are using the back roads to get around everywhere here, and these roads were not designed for the amount of traffic, so it has gotten REALLY bad here. Read more

I live 5 minutes from the base of 3 proper mountain canyon roads, they suck on the weekends, but weeknights at sunset... Always proper.

There are a couple of (kinda) hidden gems in SoCal that you can catch outside of rush hour. There’s the CA-142 that cuts through Carbon Canyon, connecting Brea and Chino Hills, and it’s BEAUTIFULLY paved right now. About 8 1/2 miles. Then there’s Box Canyon road. This one is about 17 miles, but the half closer to I-10 Read more

My father-in-law originally hailed from Alice, TX so I’ve spent some time in South Texas. Great back roads and thanks for the pics! Read more

I hate to detract from this story (which is awesome Jose’) but what is going on with all the old publications from the past on the website? I’ve been seeing this for a few days now Read more

With high gas prices I have noticed less traffic on the back roads.  Read more

I even recommend driving back roads in the city outside of rush hours. That way I’m not as stressed out when I arrive. Case in point when I was assigned a project in Arlington, TX. I gave up on trying to commute on TX360 due to its nerve-wracking merge lanes and drove down Ballpark/Stadium or Collins (when the Read more

I was fortunate to move from just outside of NYC to an area further away with great roads right at the start of the pandemic. It is very hilly so the roads are very windy with lots of elevation change but still have 35-45 mph speed limits. At the start of the pandemic, there was almost nobody on the road so I was able Read more

He only has to pay back a fraction of what he stole!? Well, I guess that’s just par for the course. Read more

The correct number of bikes to own is N+1 where N is the number of bikes you currently own.

I’m currently trying to convince myself to buy an exceptionally nice H-D XR1200 that I don’t need.  Read more

is that 97-RON comes out of green nozzles, while 95-RON comes from the yellow ones.” Read more

I’ve got twenty 5 star ratings, and a single 1 star rating. I cannot fathom what I may have done to deserve that, and it drives me crazy 😂 Read more

Rio Tinto has also been trying to do a highly questionable land swap for sacred native land near Superior, AZ. It’s thought to be the largest copper deposit in the world. Read more

It’s pretty easy to predict how humans would react to aliens. Some will worship them, others will want to kill them, and of course there will be a group who will want to have sex with them. Read more

Until one of them reliably tells me there’s a cop up ahead, I’ll stick with Waze.  Read more