45% of California Roads are Rated in 'Poor Condition'

American Thinker ^ | 05/30/2019 | Chriss Street

[SeekAndFind]

The Transportation for America reported that 45 percent of California’s 394,383 lane miles of roads are rated in “poor condition.”

The stated mission of the nonpartisan think tank known as “T4-America” is to assist local government leaders make sure that states and federal government invest in “smart, homegrown, locally-driven transportation solutions.”

The World Economic Forum highlights four basic economic pillars that contribute to global economic competitiveness among the 193 nations of the world: 1) institutions; 2) Infrastructure; 3) macroeconomic environment; and 4) health and primary education.

The United States' strongest basic pillar has been infrastructure that includes effective modes of transport, electricity supplies free from interruptions and shortages, and an extensive telecommunications network that allow rapid and free flow of information.

The U.S. historically has been at or near the top each year for infrastructure, and still has excellent electric supplies and the world’s leading telecommunications structures. But the U.S. rating has declined to 11^th place internationally due to deterioration of its roads, railroads, ports, and air transport to move goods to market and workers to their jobs.

The latest T4-America Repair Priorities 2019 report reveals that the percentage of U.S. roads nationwide in “poor condition” increased from 14 percent to 20 percent, and 37 states saw the percentage of their roads in poor condition increase from 2009-2017.

[The Toll]

Roadways are a legitimate function of Government.

Democrats don’t do that.

[taxcontrol]

Sounds like Kali should stop trying to build a train and start fixing their roads.

[llevrok]

Had they only built that high speed rail system, there wouldn’t be any need for highways /sarc

[Logical me]

What did anyone expect from a communist Democratic corrupt State of California. These damn rotten communists have done little to solve wild fires, water shortage, and so much more but we just to have a fast train to nowhere or from.

[originalbuckeye]

The roads suffer, the education suffers, the homeless suffer, the Vets suffer.......but don’t get in the way of a Democrat spending taxpayer monies on all those illegal voters!

[morphing libertarian]

the taxes have been raised so high we now have surplus and Gov Nuisance is going to give free medical care to illegals. we already spend 21 bill aye on illegals in Cal and they steal the gas tax earmarked for roads and use it to make illegals welcome.

[Home-of-the-lazy-dog]

They liked Fallout: New Vegas so much that they’re now racing against time to become the real-life version of it! At least it seems that way.

[Zathras]

They have been in poor conditions for 30 years.
The gas tax and registration was supposed to pay for the repairs.

[Truthoverpower]

Not 580. That’s for sure

[EagleUSA]

“..Sounds like Kali should stop trying to build a train and start fixing their roads....”

The TRAIN TO NOWHERE was/is a typical DemocRAT make-work project to protect and pander to the union vote on the backs of the CA taxpayer. Standard RAT play book stuff. Our roads are a mess — just another gift from the RATS. Much more important to pay billions to take care of the Undocumented Democrat voters and continue the demographic destruction of CA.

[VanShuyten]

Iowa had an increasing percent of its country roads falling into disrepair.

It solved the problem by just closing them.

[null and void]

Sounds like Kali should stop trying to build a train and start fixing their roads.

ABSOLUTELY NOT!!!!

If we build roads, people can go where they want to go.

If we build trains, people can only go where where we, the Almighty State want them to go...

[taxcontrol]

LOL - yeah, you have a point.

[Innovative]

And the other 55% are so bad, they aren’t even rated.

[hardspunned]

I remember driving on that overcrowded dilapidated POS rt. 99 and seeing the billion dollar high speed rail boondoggle to nowhere being constructed next to it. Liberal democrats.

[Rj Snows]

Hay but we have High speed rail,I think , not sure.
Ileagal aliens get free everything. We have nice buses, yes and this past winter tore the roads up faster then normal.

The epa also took the good stuff out of the asphalt.

[Mariner]

I drive CA roads every day.

Every stinkin’ day.

45% are NOT in “poor condition”.

BS. Complete BS.

[robel]

Nothing wrong with third world quality roads. It goes with the third world quality politicians in California.

[SeekAndFind]

Well, I guess you’re happy with the roads. Good for you :)