By Carl Smith, includes “North Dakota, Virginia, Missouri, Kentucky and North Carolina have the country’s most cost-effective highway systems, according to the Annual Highway Report from the Reason Foundation. … The categories analyzed in the report include such things as spending per mile of highway, administrative costs per mile, the condition of urban and rural pavement, traffic fatalities and deficient bridges.” (Note: State rankings on this measure have significant positive correlations with TIA’s Taxpayer Burden. But now that a $1 trillion federal infrastructure bill has become law …)