The numbers are staggering: $59 billion in deferred maintenance on state highways and $78 billion on local roads and streets. But what do those numbers mean to the average Californian who has to drive on those streets, highways, freeways and bridges every day?

To find out, the Alliance for Jobs communications staff took a Bad Roads road trip last week and visited communities in the Bay Area, Central Coast, Central Valley, San Diego and Southern California. We shot video and took pictures that document just how bad the roads are in many localities. The results in many cases are unconscionable in the world’s seventh-largest economy.