I occasionally drive from S.E. MO to Atlanta to see family. I am always amazed at Nashville’s and Chattanooga’s traffic. One or the other is always backed up—doesn’t matter what day of the week it is—one or both will be slow moving.
If anything Chattanooga is the worse of the two. Very slow going from east to west. Expecting a wreck or road construction or something, and then traffic seems to vanish.
But to the point of the story, you often notice a big difference in road conditions when you leave one state and enter another. One reason might be that Georgia is a more prosperous state than South Carolina and has more money to spend on its roads.
Last I knew, Georgia was getting twice the federal aid that SC gets.
If still the case, that might have something to do with the better road conditions.
South Carolina has the money to fix the roads, the gangsters in the government just prefer to spend it on their own “needs”.