Reason Foundation
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Utah Ranks 9th in the Nation in Highway Performance and Cost-Effectiveness
Utah’s best rankings are urban arterial pavement condition, structurally deficient bridges and overall fatality rate.
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Louisiana Ranks 34th in the Nation in Highway Performance and Cost-Effectiveness
Louisiana’s best rankings are in administrative disbursements per mile, rural fatality rate and total disbursements per mile.
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Total State Highway Disbursements Per Mile
In total, the 50 states disbursed about $139.0 billion for state-owned roads in 2016, a 4.1 percent decrease from $145.0 billion in 2015.
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Kansas Ranks 6th in the Nation in Highway Performance and Cost-Effectiveness
Kansas’ best rankings are in rural arterial pavement condition, rural Interstate pavement condition and urban arterial pavement condition.
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Missouri Ranks 3rd in the Nation in Highway Performance and Cost-Effectiveness
Missouri’s best rankings are in capital and bridge disbursements per mile, total disbursements per mile and administrative disbursements per mile.
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Urban Highway Fatality Rate
The nation’s urban highway fatality rate worsened from 0.70 in 2015 to 0.77 in 2016.
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Oregon Ranks 12th in the Nation in Highway Performance and Cost-Effectiveness
Oregon’s best rankings are in rural arterial pavement condition, structurally deficient bridges and rural Interstate pavement condition.
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Maintenance Disbursements Per Mile
Maintenance disbursements comprise about 16.8 percent of total disbursements, totaling $23.33 billion in 2016, about 2.3 percent more than in 2015.
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Pennsylvania Ranks 35th in the Nation in Highway Performance and Cost-Effectiveness
Pennsylvania’s best rankings are in rural fatality rate, overall fatality rate and urban fatality rate.
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California Ranks 43rd in the Nation in Highway Performance and Cost-Effectiveness
California’s best rankings are overall fatality rate, structurally deficient bridges and urban fatality rate.
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West Virginia Ranks 16th in the Nation in Highway Performance and Cost-Effectiveness
West Virginia’s best rankings are total disbursements per mile, traffic congestion and capital and bridge disbursements per mile.
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Wyoming Ranks 8th Overall in Highway Performance and Cost-Effectiveness
Wyoming’s best rankings are urbanized area congestion (1st), rural arterial lane-width (tied for 1st), total disbursements per mile (9th) and maintenance disbursements per mile (9th).
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Reforming Connecticut’s Pre-Trial System
Replacing monetary bail with a system that uses effective alternatives based upon risk assessment.
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Comparing the Travel Times, Environmental Impacts and Costs of Traveling by Bus and Amtrak
Study finds travel times on motorcoaches and Amtrak are similar, but ticket costs and emissions are much lower with bus travel
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California Voters’ Guide 2012: Proposition 33
Among a daunting package of ballot questions, here is the free minds and free markets perspective on proposition 33.
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California Voters’ Guide 2012: Proposition 37
Among a daunting package of ballot questions, here is the free minds and free markets perspective on proposition 37.