{"id":51485,"date":"2025-11-18T18:07:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T18:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/51485\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T18:07:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T18:07:06","slug":"florida-has-5-of-americas-10-worst-roads-in-2024-pep-boys-report-newsradio-wfla-orlando","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/51485\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Has 5 Of America&#8217;s 10 Worst Roads In 2024 Pep Boys Report | Newsradio WFLA Orlando"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FLORIDA &#8211; A new study by auto service chain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pepboys.com\/car-care\/auto-care\/worst-roads-in-america\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Pep Boys<\/a> ranked the metropolitan areas with the highest rates of road-related vehicle repairs, placing five Florida cities in the top ten nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>The inaugural Worst Roads in America report analyzed service data for wheel alignments, suspension repairs, and tire damage directly linked to poor road conditions. <\/p>\n<p>Orlando-Daytona Beach topped the list at number one, followed by Chicago at number two, and Panama City at number three. <\/p>\n<p>Tampa-St. Petersburg ranked fifth, West Palm Beach sixth, and Tallahassee ninth.<\/p>\n<p>According to Pep Boys, Florida drivers experience elevated repair needs due to heat-softened asphalt, frequent storms, heavy traffic, construction zones, and unstable soil conditions in certain regions.<\/p>\n<p>The complete top ten includes:<br \/>Orlando, Florida<\/p>\n<p>Chicago, Illinois<br \/>\nPanama City, Florida<br \/>\nLafayette, Indiana<br \/>\nTampa-St. Petersburg, Florida<br \/>\nWest Palm Beach, Florida<br \/>\nNashville, Tennessee<br \/>\nNew Orleans, Louisiana<br \/>\nTallahassee, Florida<br \/>\nKnoxville, Tennessee.<\/p>\n<p>Miami-Fort Lauderdale also appeared in the top thirty at twenty-first place. <\/p>\n<p>The report highlights that half of the ten most affected metro areas are located in Florida, based on actual repair frequency recorded across the company&#8217;s service locations.=<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FLORIDA &#8211; A new study by auto service chain Pep Boys ranked the metropolitan areas with the highest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51486,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[32541,6103,28,32539,32542,202,204,203,199,201,200,15787,32540],"class_list":["post-51485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-areas","tag-cities","tag-florida","tag-pep-boys","tag-rates","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-study","tag-vehicle-repairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}