Road Condition Improves But Traffic Congestion, Highway Fatalities Rise

Nearly 52 percent of U.S. urban Interstates are now congested and traffic fatality rates rose slightly, but road surface conditions and bridge conditions improved according to the Reason Foundation’s latest annual highway performance report. "Gridlock isn’t going away," said David T. Hartgen, Ph.D., the study’s lead author. "States are going to have to prioritize and direct their transportation money to projects specifically designed to reduce congestion if we are going to reverse this troubling trend."