Maryland has one of the worst highway systems in the nation, based on its levels of congestion and the amount of money spent maintaining roads, according to a new study.
Best, worst highways
The Reason Foundation released its 19th annual Highway Report Thursday, ranking each state based on 11 categories such as costs per mile, congestion and pavement condition. Here are the top 10 and the bottom 10:
Best states:
North DakotaMontanaKansasNew MexicoNebraskaSouth CarolinaWyomingMissouriGeorgiaOregonWorst states:
Rhode IslandAlaskaCaliforniaHawaiiNew YorkNew JerseyMassachusettsMarylandVermontConnecticut
The Reason Foundation released its 19th annual Highway Report on Thursday, ranking each state in 11 categories such as congestion, pavement condition and costs per mile. Maryland was among 10 states that received the lowest rankings.
Based in Los Angeles, the Reason Foundation is a nonpartisan public policy research organization.
"Basically, we're looking to see how states spend their highway dollars and how efficient they are and how efficient...
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It's about the surface - 2010-09-07 14:35:07
Maryland has more asphalt roads by percentage than other states. That can be a big factor. Concrete roads last much longer and cannot warp and degrade like the asphalt roads that cover Maryland. We need to look into paving that lasts. They say that the state has received $319 million in stimulus funding it has used for resurfacing projects, but that is 100% asphalt. At best that means that we're going to have better roads for a short amount of time. When are we going to think about the future??? All this is aside from the environmental aspects.
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SHA - 2010-09-03 22:45:13
Geez...these people NEVER take any blame for ANYTHING they do - or don't do, as the case may be. "...we have blizzards in the winter and 100 degrees in the summer..." Really? Withe the exceptionf the blizzards earlier this year, we do NOT have a consistent history of blizzards OR 100 degree summers. Just more excuses - sort of like why they don't put up traffic lights at bad intersections until someone is killed there.
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Curious - 2010-09-03 17:35:44
With a few anecdotal exceptions caused by
bad winters such as the one we just experienced, and notorious stretches of state highways and county roads under what only seems like continuous construction, I think we have great roads.
I miss Maryland roads whenever I travel by car to Virginia, Pennsylvania, and either of the Carolinas; so I am flabbergasted that they not only didn't make the "worst" lists, South Carolina was actually rated one of the best.
Perhaps it's the excellent "rural interstate conditions" that I'm remembering and comparing, if I'm reading your article correctly?
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