The Reason Foundation’s Annual Highway Report ranks each state’s highway system on pavement condition, deficient bridges, spending per-mile, traffic fatality rates and traffic congestion.
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A new study ranks Pennsylvania’s highway system close to the bottom of the list.
That is actually an improvement from a year ago when the Commonwealth ranked 41st in the nation.
The Massachusetts highway system is among the worst performing and least cost-effective highway systems in the nation, according to a Reason Foundation study released Thursday.
On spending, OR ranks 23rd in total disbursements per mile and 34th in administrative disbursements per mile.
The amount is almost three times as much as any other state, the report found.
The Reason Foundation collects data that state highway agencies provide to the federal government on their spending and performance and this edition is based on 2013, the past year with complete data, the foundation said.
South Carolina, South Dakota and Kansas were the top three, according to the study.
The Bay State trailed only NY in its rate of improvement to deficient bridges, decreasing the percentage of deficient bridges in the system by 2.5 percentage points. SC had the lowest total disbursements with $35,286 and also earned the top ranking of the overall report.
Oregon’s worst rankings are urbanized area congestion (39th) and administrative disbursements per mile (34th).
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“It’s a large system-12,000 miles”, Hartgen says, “but if you look at how much money they have available they have nearly two and half times as much as the average state has”. You go, New Hampshire.
