Posted on 07/04/2007 10:01:15 AM PDT by george76
16th Annual Report on the Performance of State Highway Systems (1984–2005).
North Dakota, South Carolina have nation’s most cost-effective road systems; New Jersey is home to nation’s worst overall road system for eighth straight year...
Drivers in California, Minnesota, New Jersey and North Carolina are stuck in the worst traffic...
In the overall rankings, North Dakota and South Carolina took the top spots for the second consecutive year.
New Jersey's gridlocked highways, poor pavement conditions and high repair costs put the state last in overall cost-effectiveness for the eighth consecutive year.
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They also probably have the highest highway taxes with the least to show for it. dimocRATS at their finest.
New Jersey and it’s goombah-run government. Nothing surprising here.
Answer: Too many people, and some of them do not belong here. Causing traffic jams and road deterioration that Americans refuse to do.
They clearly need to raise taxes and ban all non-union contractors from road projects.
Oddly enough, I drew the same conclusion - population has increased (primarily through illegal immigration) much faster than roadways have been constructed or expanded.
Or as one trucker so elegantly put it, "too many cars, not enough asphalt".
The biggest problem here is that it's the most densely populated state with a lot of heavily-traveled roads -- which means: 1) the cost of buying land to build major transportation projects is enormous, and 2) there are very narrow windows of time during which overnight road work can be done.
The ongoing I-78 reconstruction project is a perfect case in point. A project like this could be done in a matter of weeks in some parts of the country, but because it is a major interstate route that carries a lot of traffic they have to keep a minimum of four lanes open in each direction at all times. This has stretched the duration of the project out through at least three spring/summer/fall construction seasons.
It is hard to imagine any roads being worse than California’s. New Jersey’s must really be in poor condition.
I can easily name several parts of the NJ roadway that have been under construction for over a decade with no end in sight. What pisses me off is that they have one of those stupid "Your Tax Dollars At Work" signs up by them which details the millions of my dollars paying for this nonsense.
LOL!!
It’s just too bad that stomping on their heads doesn’t make them go away.
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