Sounds like Illinois. No sooner is a highway job completed after years and years, when it has to be started all over again due to cheesy materials, shoddy workmanship etc. Provides crooked contractors and even more crooked unions with lifetime careers.As an added benefit it generates a lot of kickbacks to politicians.
I live in southern UT. Great roads...no tolls. No parking meters either. The streets in town were laid-out by the pioneers...wide enough to turn around a 4-horse wagon. Also, we only pay 3 cents per kwh for electricity. So far this winter has been two mornings when the temps were in the low 20’s...no snow. Note: all LIBs stay away.