[tturedraider]

I’ve been wondering this for a while. In Chicagoland there are an enormous number of manhole covers. Sometimes three or four or five grouped together. And frequently they are an inch or more lower than the level of the pavement. About 95% of them are located on either the left or right side of the lane, so that without making unnatural swerves either your left or right tires drive directly over them. I have never experienced this to any significant degree anywhere else I have lived. For the most part my experience before moving here was that manhole covers were located either in the center of the lane so your wheels straddled them or they were right in the center of the road where the double lines are painted.

Are any of your localities like this with tons of off center manhole covers?