Mainers can agree on precious few issues, for sure, but there’s one item all Pine Tree State residents always find consensus: our roads, for the most part, are awful.

In Lewiston, Webster Street’s pockmarked pavement has earned the designation of “most deterioriated in Maine” from a national transportation nonprofit, TRIP, which released an assessment of Maine’s road woes on June 6.

The report coincides, quite intentionally, with the referendum on a $113 million transportation bond, which goes before Maine voters tomorrow. The transportation bond is the first of three referenda on borrowing packages, with votes in November, and next June, for economic and education funding still ahead.

TRIP’s report, which contains good information about the condition of Maine roadways, suffers from the perception that it’s priming the pump for the June 12 vote. Truth is, most Mainers know about the sorry state of the state’s blacktop, without any national group needing to apprise them.

(That said, TRIP’s findings were dismal. It found a full third of Maine’s roads are either mediocre or poor, for example, and 20 percent of our bridges are “functionally obsolete.”)

We’ve chattered our way along Route 117 in Norway, another one of TRIP’s top five crumbly roads in Maine. Nearly all of us have traversed a bridge growing old enough to receive mailings from the American Association of Retired Persons, or bore down on a pothole deep enough for spelunking.

“You can’t get there from here,” is best used as a homespun colloquialism, not an assessment of a vehicle’s chances of plying a pitted byway that looks like the scene of mortar fire.

But it takes more than spreading “hot top” to make travel smooth. It takes diligent maintenance and investment, as the upkeep demands on Maine’s transportation infrastructure are relentless. Maine has declined to invest heavily in its infrastructure in past years, which has increased need, and cost.

Lawmakers in Augusta voted unanimously to support this bond, a clear signal of its importance, and the transparent consensus about road conditions to which every Mainer can relate. While we may not agree on much, we all know our roads and bridges should be better.

By voting “yes” on the transportation bond tomorrow, we can ensure they are.