N.D. has the best roads Kansas 3rd row
Nearly 52 percent of USA urban interstates are now overloaded and transport, the number of fatalities has increased slightly, but road surface conditions bridge conditions must be improved based on the latest Foundation annual report on the highway performance.
“The status quo is not far,” said David T. Hartgen, Ph.D., lead study author is not permitted. “States will have to prioritize the direct transport and their money to specific projects designed to reduce congestion, when we will, for this disturbing trend.”
Pilot in California, Minnesota, New Jersey and North Carolina insert in the worst transport, with more than 70 percent of urban interstates in those countries, such as overloading, say the researchers.
The study measures the performance of the state roads and highways from 1984 to 2005 in 12 different categories, including deaths on the roads, congestion, the condition of coating, the bridge of the highway maintenance and management costs, to determine the position of each State and cost-effectiveness.
The report notes that the number of deaths vary considerably from state to state. Massachusetts, reports the mortality rate lower - 0.79 deaths per 100 million motor vehicles miles traveled. In the meantime, Montana was the deadliest roads, with 2256 deaths per 100 million vehicle miles. The national average was 1453 victims to be deplored.
The study has some good news for motorists. The share of roads in “poor condition” dramatic for the two motorways and major roads. Since 1998, the proportion of urban poor intergovernmental mileage allowance was 31 per cent. The number of bridges deemed deficient, ie, they come from federal repair dollars, is also decreased slightly during 2005.
In the overall standings, North Dakota and South Carolina, the High places for the second consecutive year. In the meantime, New Jersey’s gridlocked highways, poor pavement conditions and high repair costs during the last state of the overall cost-effectiveness for the eighth consecutive year.
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