A bumpy, crumbling road in a suburb outside St. John's has earned the dubious distinction of being named one of the worst roads in the Atlantic region.

Pleasantview Avenue in Paradise placed ninth on the Canadian Automobile Association's yearly survey of the 10 worst roads in Atlantic Canada.

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The list is compiled each May during an online vote, with 4,045 people casting votes this year.

Some 66 people voted for Pleasantview Avenue, an extremely narrow road that has plenty of cracks in its pavement and is crumbling on both sides.

"My dad complains about it every single day. He calls it a cow path," said Alesha Clarke, a high school student who walks the road regularly.

Pleasantview Avenue had once been a dead-end, but now links to a newer subdivision with significantly better infrastructure.

Resident Zack Welsh said upgrades to the old road cannot come quickly enough.

"There definitely isn't any walking room on the shoulder, and that's something that's been a pretty current theme or a pretty consistent theme for the entire town," said Welsh.

"Just on the main road there we only got curbs for walking a little while ago. But there's definitely not much room — if you were to have to go off the road for a vehicle coming down this road, you would have to go into a ditch," he said.

The finding is an improvement of sorts for Newfoundland and Labrador from last year, when five of the top 10 selections were in this province.

Gary Howard, a vice-president with CAA, said different reasons can put a road on the list.

"It is entirely in the eyes of the beholder," he told CBC News. "It could be a soft shoulder, or a low shoulder. It could be a crumbling road, it could be a pothole."

Howard said the point of the survey is not to point fingers, but trigger improvements.

"This isn't a contest or trying to pick on government or anyone." he said.

"Really, what it is, it's intended to get a conversation going, and provide the public a voice, and what we're trying to do is act as a broker between government and media and the public to say let's talk about this because it is important for our economy, for tourism, for safety" said Howard.