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Trenton NJ, Reason Foundation’s 26th Annual Highway Report is out, ranking each state’s highway conditions and cost-effectiveness.
The one good thing for New jersey is you can’t fall off the floor . No surprise but New Jersey ranked dead last in all categories with North Dakota, Virginia, Missouri, Kentucky, and North Carolina having the most cost-effective highway systems, and New Jersey, Rhode Island, Alaska, Hawaii, and New York having the worst combination of highway performance and cost-effectiveness. A number of states with large populations and busy highways performed well in the overall rankings, including Virginia (2nd overall), Missouri (3rd), North Carolina (5th), Georgia (14th), and Texas (16th).
Nationally, the study finds America’s highway system is incrementally improving in almost every category. However, a 10-year average indicates the nation’s highway system problems are concentrated in the bottom 10 states and, despite spending more and more money, these worst-performing states are finding it difficult to improve.
For example, 43% of the urban arterial primary mileage in poor condition is in six states—California, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Nebraska, and Rhode Island. Approximately 25% of the rural Interstate mileage in poor condition is in just three states (Alaska, Colorado, and Washington). While a majority of states reduced their percentages of structurally deficient bridges, five states—Rhode Island, West Virginia, Iowa, South Dakota, and Pennsylvania—still report more than 15% of their bridges as deficient.
For total spending, three states—Massachusetts, New York, and New Jersey—spent more than $250,000 per lane-mile of highway. In contrast, five states—Missouri, South Carolina, West Virginia, North Dakota, and South Dakota—spent less than $30,000 per mile of highway.
I guess that big massive gasoline tax must be funding all the union DOT employees riding around 6 in a truck cab or riding around cutting grass in the median in western NJ
How about filling the potholes on RT 80
How about picking up the trash and dead deer
How about fixing the potholes on the bridge over RT by lodi with the rebar sticking out
Infrastructure funds reallocated to pay public employees fat pensions
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