Kansas highways are ranked third best in the nation, according to a new report released by the Reason Foundation.
The report judges states on overall highway performance and efficiency. The top-performing states in the overall rankings this year are rural states with limited traffic congestion. Kansas’s neighbor to the north, Nebraska, landed at number four on the list.
Oklahoma and Texas were also in the top half of the list, landing at numbers 17 and 19, respectively. Colorado performed the most poorly of states in the HPPR listening area, coming in at number 35. South Carolina was found to have the best roads in America, followed closely by South Dakota at number two. Alaska was determined to have the worst roads in the nation. Fifty percent of the nation’s poorly maintained rural highways can be found in just five states: Alaska, California, Colorado, Washington and Indiana.