Four of the best-performing state highway systems in the nation over the past three years have been in the Southeast, while California and New York, two of the biggest, have among the poorest-performing, according to the 27th annual report on the subject by the nonprofit Reason Foundation, whose areas of research include infrastructure.
The top five are Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia and Connecticut. The bottom also included Alaska, Hawaii and Washington. Virginia benefitted from good rural pavement conditions, low fatality rates, a relatively small percentage of deficient bridges, and low highway costs, according to the report, which will be published Thursday.
